Example sentences of "[vb past] always [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd always wanted to be famous . |
| 2 | I 'd always wanted to be famous . |
| 3 | Broaddus — owner of Prodesco , a textile company in Pennsylvania , and an American with extensive business interests outside catering — was a friend and former hotel client of Brown , and had always wanted to be involved in the hospitality industry . |
| 4 | She had always hankered to be tall and fair , like Riborg . |
| 5 | The Christian attitude towards pain had always tended to be stoical ; as Jeremy Taylor bluntly put it : ‘ He that is afraid of pain is afraid of his own nature . ’ |