Example sentences of "but [pron] 've always [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but I 've always felt , I really feel as if |
| 2 | ‘ My natural mother was my mother 's younger sister , so my mother 's really my aunt , but I 've always called her Mum . |
| 3 | It has n't always been easy but I 've always kept my self-respect , and I have n't let anybody take that away . |
| 4 | whether that means anything to people who live in Bishop 's Stortford but I 've always lived in Chelmsford and people who wore their hat sort of at a flaunty angle on the back of their heads were always seem to wearing their hats in the Hollywood fashion . |
| 5 | This may seem a bit excessive , but I 've always believed it as easy , if not easier , to work accurately . |
| 6 | Obviously , this is a very personal thing , but I 've always suspected that inlays like these will turn out to have a very short lifespan in terms of popular appeal . |
| 7 | ‘ In the past , I 've used researchers to dig around in libraries , but I 've always done all the hard work myself , and certainly all the major interviews . |
| 8 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 9 | ‘ I do care a lot about the parish , but I 've always fought against the ‘ clergy wife ’ label . |
| 10 | ‘ Probably the most gifted officer to serve under my command , but I 've always doubted his loyalty to the Party . |
| 11 | Another time I was lying in a hospital bed after a car crash — I 'd been lucky and escaped with minor injuries , but I 've always had a keen sense of drama , so I lay there feeling as though I 'd just come through the Battle of Britain . |
| 12 | But I 've always had at least ten friends who are long term unemployed and we 've always bought each other 's stuff . |
| 13 | I 've never been more than a dabbler but I 've always had an eye for a painter and I saw at once that he was one . |
| 14 | But I 've always known I could never be a professional jockey because I could n't make the weight . |
| 15 | And she said , but I 've always known I did that . |
| 16 | But I 've always got on well with mother-in-law 's . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But I 've always got champagne in the fridge . |
| 18 | O'Leary explains : ‘ I am qualified for Ireland through my dad 's nationality , but I 've always considered myself an Essex man because I was born in Harold Wood . ’ |
| 19 | STOP ME if you 've heard this before , but I 've always considered Throwing Muses to be the Pixies ' most aloof siblings . |
| 20 | " That 's true , of course , but I 've always thought that youth was wasted on the young . |
| 21 | For the last 14 years , I 've worked in shops and offices , but I 've always thought I 'd like to do community work , which would suit my personality a lot more . |
| 22 | I 've never held it against him , but I 've always wondered why . |
| 23 | A lot of people say that you should n't hack young horses out on their own for months , if at all , but I 've always preferred the theory that if horses do n't learn to go out alone from the start you set up problems for later on . |
| 24 | Irons I 've used before have also offered this facility , but I 've always found I 've ended up toing and froing between the tap once too often . |
| 25 | But I 've always found the Flying V and its derivatives a devil of a job to sit down with and play . |
| 26 | ‘ But you 've always lived here . ’ |
| 27 | If you 've never skippered a yacht before , but you 've always wanted to , or if you have limited sailing experience , join Villa-Flotilla in Nidri . |
| 28 | Yeah , but you 've always liked shopping anyway . |
| 29 | ‘ But you 've always said you loved it . ’ |
| 30 | But you 've always managed to rise above them . |