Example sentences of "i always had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from liking London bands such as the Stones and the Kinks , for some reason I always had a working knowledge of the Small Faces . |
| 2 | I 'd had enough of my hair looking like a toilet brush , so I always had it cut short — like Ronnie Lane 's of course — which was less hassle . |
| 3 | ‘ I always had a religious obsession with fame . |
| 4 | As Larry Speakes , the president 's press spokesman , put it , ‘ I always had the impression that … as ( Ollie ) flew across the country he could visualize a camera on him , and although nobody knew who he was and his mission was secret , the whole thing was being made into a movie . ’ |
| 5 | I always had to be polite and caring . ’ |
| 6 | This was surely the coldest and draughtiest station in the country , and I always had to wait there about midnight ; and I used to pray that the train would stop with a door opposite to me , so that I should have some chance of getting on at all . |
| 7 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 8 | Hugh Ritchie , the Departmental Officer one rank above Mr S — , a kind and gentlemanly character with whom I always had rapport , sent for me and asked why I wanted to leave . |
| 9 | ‘ I always had the impression ’ , said one , ‘ that we were not seeing the best of Harold Wilson in that period . |
| 10 | Useful though it may have been , I never tried that approach ; I did not have the heart , and I was sure that I always had to leave my intended customer a face-saving way out . |
| 11 | I always had the feeling that if I had n't , she would have sat there all night . |
| 12 | Because of this arrangement , while I was in the Waaf I always had plenty of spending money , but there were n't a whole lot of things to spend it on . |
| 13 | ‘ I always had me doubts ; from the very first . |
| 14 | I always had a good relationship with the press . |
| 15 | I hated playing chess with him , I always had to lose , ’ Bryan , 65 , told police . |
| 16 | I always had to pay a nurse to look after her ; she wasted away , could n't stand or walk , but her eyes were as bright as a child 's and so was her wit . |
| 17 | But I always had books to read and pictures to paint and it was lovely in the summer when those theatrical people from London came down and put on all those Shakespearian plays out-of-doors on the cliffs . |
| 18 | I ALWAYS HAD FAITH THAT LECONTE COULD BEAT ANYBODY , ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME — YANNICK NOAH |
| 19 | I always had faith that he could still beat anybody , anywhere at any time ’ . |
| 20 | With five and even three elements I always had one element in the centre . |
| 21 | Previously I always had difficulty in arranging a caretaker for the cottage , and often ended up spending the entire weekend gardening and doing the housework . ’ |
| 22 | Y'know , I always had a home to go to . |
| 23 | I always had three meals a day and cigarettes and things bought for me . |
| 24 | We never considered giving up our work with the chimps when the children were born , but it would not have been possible for us to continue without the help of the Africans — I always had two men employed to take care of the children when I went with Christophe into the forest . ’ |
| 25 | I always had to have mine with me , you got no babysitters then , you 'd got nowt . |
| 26 | There were sometimes dangerous people near Haworth , so I always had a gun in the house . |
| 27 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he went on , trying to find excuses for himself , ‘ I reckon I always had some sort of imminence because I 'd feel a hunch rolling up inside me like a breaker on the ocean and I 'd just know what was going to win . |
| 28 | Francis was gone and I remained the woman I always had been . |
| 29 | I also went out every day , and I always had my gun with me . |
| 30 | So I always had meat during the rainy months when I could not go out with a gun . |