Example sentences of "i had always [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had always believed that survival lay in the mind but now I knew there were things one could n't survive . |
| 2 | I do apologise for such a long letter , but I had always believed that ZZAP ! was the inferior C64 mag . |
| 3 | I had always believed that housewives must be different from you and me . |
| 4 | I find that an extraordinary statement of policy , because I had always believed that , in so far as it had any justification at all , the Labour party 's commitment to unilateralism , to the closure of bases , to the withdrawal from NATO , was based on a principle — on a deeply held conviction that those things were wrong . |
| 5 | He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off ! |
| 6 | I had always imagined that they would put up and take down tents . |
| 7 | I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to . |
| 8 | I had always felt that the term ‘ Romano-Saxon ’ was an unwise invention . |
| 9 | I had always assumed that this sort of civilized dismay at barbarism was the monopoly of our cause . |
| 10 | I had always assumed that this song was either fictional or referred to events long ago , and Ricks ' talk contained nothing to contradict this . |
| 11 | AS a regular reader of Rugby World & Post , I had always assumed that your Postbag items were selected to instruct , inform , amuse or provoke constructive debate . |
| 12 | She was not at all beautiful , but even with her likeness before me I had always assumed that she must be , since she carried such conviction in her forgotten words and her enduring appearance . |
| 13 | I had always hoped that the Buddhist Sangha , meaning the Community of Buddhist monks , might take a hand in the raising of morale , the deepening of the Buddhist emphasis on the Noble Eightfold Path , and in getting all sections of the nation to work together for peace and reconstruction . |
| 14 | And yet I knew , as I spoke , that this was what I had always thought but had been too frightened to express . |
| 15 | ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’ |
| 16 | Until then I had always thought that I could go home , but now I was n't sure . |
| 17 | I had always thought that the Chittagong war was about land . |