Example sentences of "we [verb] always [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd always been boastful , conspicuous , triumphalist in our love ; now we had to tell the World . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've always been too scared to have anything drastic done to our hair — until now , ’ said Ruth . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've always been really good friends but had n't worked together for a long time . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've always been Athena customers , ’ he grins , in explanation of this enthusiasm . |
| 5 | I do n't even get on with my brother , we 've always been at different schools and I 've hardly spoken to him since he went to university . ’ |
| 6 | We 've always been concerned with self-improvement , slowly re-building and extending our steadings and houses . |
| 7 | We 've … we 've always been close , but more so since Harry went . |
| 8 | ‘ We were the giggling lavatorial girls we 've always been portrayed but somewhere there was a spark of maturity , ’ says Carolyn . |
| 9 | We 've always been outcasts and we never thought we 'd be accepted . ’ |
| 10 | We 've always been so close , have n't we ? |
| 11 | We 've always been close , but we 've got a different relationship now . |
| 12 | Indicate erm tt what the percentage was , because we 've always been sitting round this table patting ourselves on the back , saying that er |
| 13 | Erm , well as you probably know Bolton , Boltonian , may be regarded as rather parochial but erm we 've always been a little suspicious about Manchester and there probably are n't very many Boltonians you take the Manchester Evening News regularly because we have our own Bolton Evening News . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've always been close . ’ |
| 15 | Erm we 've always been involved with the flats , |
| 16 | We 've always been a rather loosely-knit family , and I 've never seen him . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ With no relatives on either side , there 's only the four of us , and we 've always been very close . ’ |
| 18 | We 've always been forest Romanies , but if Wychwood is to be chopped down Boz and the rest of us will have to take to the road . ’ |
| 19 | But we then took a view about , about future years because in a sense we 've always been , obviously had to provide for the er , year impression . |
| 20 | Now , I mean , we 've always been told that this is , been an efficient run County Council , and that the the scope for making savings is just not there . |
| 21 | Lord Mayor , we 've always been opposed to Trusts because of their independent nature which we see as really making it impossible because of that very nature to plan for health care properly . |
| 22 | And I would n't say that we were being fleeced , I mean I , I think we 've always been fleeced up to a certain point but they were always making a loss in the past and |
| 23 | Well it is for us because we 've always been saying it . |
| 24 | Yeah Waddington 's , cos we 've always been saying |
| 25 | What do you mean love , we 've always been left alone to get |
| 26 | You see , I was only nineteen and you were my only sister , and we had always been pals . |
| 27 | Pat Wells describes the attack : ‘ This was our first readiness at Malta and whilst sitting in the crew room were astonished to hear the air-raid sirens howling — in the U.K. we had always been airborne before the sirens sounded . |
| 28 | It is only when one has haunted the markets of France and the food shops in the country towns and villages , watched the housewives doing their shopping , listened to them discussing their purchases at the pâtisseries and the charcuteries that one realizes how much less they are tied to their kitchens than we had always been led to suppose . |
| 29 | Despite pressure to reformulate Kaliber as a low-alcohol brand , we had always been convinced that the consumer wanted a quality product with a clear no-alcohol identity — and our market research supported that view . |
| 30 | ‘ I lost my father before I signed for Rangers and his death had a devastating effect on me since we had always been so close , and not simply because he had been a professional goalkeeper in his time , ’ Goram said . |