Example sentences of "had always be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it is done , he wrote , it should look as though it had always been there . |
| 2 | Her husband had always been the centre of attention wherever he went — large , handsome , charming : a vote-getter by trade and inclination . |
| 3 | The lady had always been a bit flighty in her mind — nervous , delicate , taking odd fancies . |
| 4 | She had always been a self-sufficient woman , since the married years with Martin . |
| 5 | Jay lived best when inspired ; for her love had always been the inspiration ; she lived and wrote from passion , passion which led to the abyss . |
| 6 | He could speak no longer : he 'd swallowed his voice , choking on the words , while his wife 's voice , which had always been weak and incoherent before , rose high into the air , followed by those of his daughters and his sisters . |
| 7 | As long as she had money , she could pretend she had always been here , but the prospect of destitution tested her false history in a way which made her feel it was n't her fault . |
| 8 | Freight and parcels had always been seen as distinct entities , and these naturally formed two of the new sectors . |
| 9 | An English writer who went into self-exile just when Pound and Lawrence did , Ford Madox Ford , had always been denied serious consideration ( as he is denied it still ) , in part for having , in No More Parades at the end of a previous war , envisaged the England he was leaving in just such manorial terms : and if the Englishman could not be forgiven , how forgive the American ? |
| 10 | Mr Fitton yesterday made clear that he had always been acting in an independent capacity in the offer for Eagle , and that it had no connection with Braithwaite . |
| 11 | Eventually they joined forces with other graduates sharing the same skewed sense of humour , Michael Palin , Terry Jones , Eric Idle and an American-born cartoonist and graphic artist , Terry Gilliam ; and on Sunday 5 October 1969 ( incongruously enough , in a scheduling slot which had always been rigorously reserved for programmes of a religious cast ) the very first episode of Monty Python 's Flying Circus was broadcast . |
| 12 | He thought the transition period had always been too long , because authority deserts a dying king , and neither China nor the Hong Kong people were going to take much notice of us by the time it got to the Nineties . |
| 13 | The particular premises that Let It Rock occupied had always been in the very vanguard of London fashion trends but working there was n't as much of a shock as I thought it was going to be at first . |
| 14 | Phoebe had too short a fuse , and it was impossible to guess how she would be , each meeting had to be gauged with care , and it had always been so . |
| 15 | She knew she ought to be furious that her mother had apparently not noticed that she did not bleed , that she did not eat , but until recently she had always been grateful . |
| 16 | Forgotten was the fearful nail-biting exercise Monaghan Day had always been for the whole house ; with distance it had become large , heroic , blood-mystical , something from which the impossible could be snatched . |
| 17 | Outside the post office he made no apology for the roughness of his appearance but he was as friendly and charming as he had always been . |
| 18 | First they looked to it for some confirmation that the general principles of history which they saw at work in capitalism had always been operative . |
| 19 | Among the ‘ lower caste ’ people , the woman 's role had always been rather different from her role in the farming castes ; now ‘ lower caste ’ women worked increasingly in the fields alongside the men and this led , according to Mamdani , to ‘ a radical change … in the attitude towards girl children … low caste families do not look upon the birth of a girl with the disfavour they used to ’ — though ‘ to a certain extent the disfavour persists because the girl will marry and emigrate precisely when she has reached the age of greatest productivity ’ . |
| 20 | In Uganda I had always been keen on the latest styles , trying new clothes from week to week . |
| 21 | Volvo 's two-litre B200 engine had always been smoother than the bigger-bore 2.3 , but it made no more than an adequate job of hauling the corpulent 940 . |
| 22 | Sport had always been a prominent source of news in its own right . |
| 23 | Charlie Hatton had always been cocky but in the past weeks he 'd become insufferable and most of the meetings had broken up like this . |
| 24 | Charles enjoyed the time he spent with his wife and children , but the events of the last four years had been no less momentous for him , and his way of coping with the stress and tensions in his life had always been by testing himself physically . |
| 25 | After Edward Adeane 's departure , David Roycroft , who was a career diplomat from the Foreign Office , had held the fort until a successor could be found , but the whole set-up had always been curiously amateurish . |
| 26 | Sitting in the audience was Diana 's father , Earl Spencer , who had always been very proud of his daughter , and only too happy to tell the world so . |
| 27 | She lay propped up in pain and wondered when it was she had begun to loathe her body — she who had always been so proud of her figure and liked to pirouette in front of the glass after stepping from her clothes , admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs , the trim concavity of her belly , the neatness of her breasts , her skin with the sculptured texture of marble , her neck slender as the stem of a wineglass , and the bound-up hair in which fire lurked and leaped . |
| 28 | That had always been the constitutional position , he said , but the big demonstrations of the past few days had proved that he had a popular mandate too . |
| 29 | Pop had returned to what it had always been about : the personal as the realm in which the meaning of your life is resolved . |
| 30 | I think the death of David 's father was probably what took him a while to make the decision about leaving Ken , because to lose his father , who he really adored , who had always been a pillar of strength to him , changed his life , and I think David carried a bitterness about him dying for a long time . |