Example sentences of "had always " in BNC.
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| 1 | Language itself , he said , would cease to function as it had always functioned , it would only be a strange dead thing , smouldering perhaps , but burnt out , no longer conveying any meaning . |
| 2 | When it is done , he wrote , it should look as though it had always been there . |
| 3 | Her husband had always been the centre of attention wherever he went — large , handsome , charming : a vote-getter by trade and inclination . |
| 4 | The lady had always been a bit flighty in her mind — nervous , delicate , taking odd fancies . |
| 5 | During my earlier periods of unemployment I had always , on a point of pride , provided for myself out of my savings . |
| 6 | Jay had always said you know who you are at three a.m . |
| 7 | She had always been a self-sufficient woman , since the married years with Martin . |
| 8 | She had always thought she was not the type to ring the Samaritans . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Masha Cohen had always felt an outsider , vis-á-vis her more Westernised sisters-in-law . |
| 11 | She had always sworn to herself that she would never impose on her daughter 's marriage 2. ) but she knows now that she can not possibly decline an invitation to spend the rest of her days at her son-in-law 's house . |
| 12 | The only thing that ‘ rang bells ’ for him was his own consciousness — Djwa 's ‘ experience ’ — and most of all the inner experiences which had always dominated his vision — his ‘ inner landscape ’ . |
| 13 | He had always put two pinches of it on his food , had n't he ? thought Susan but she was n't sure and Michael was talking again . |
| 14 | She had always felt insulated from pain with him , as if the condoms served to forever prevent them from getting unhealthily close . |
| 15 | Now he was filling their relationship with a seriousness she had always assumed it could not possibly contain . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I had always had someone to go round with , while in Europe , or in America ; and good company , any company , can make an enormous difference to one 's perception of whatever one happens to be perceiving . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 20 | Freight and parcels had always been seen as distinct entities , and these naturally formed two of the new sectors . |
| 21 | ‘ Mere existence had never been enough for him ; he had always wanted something more . ’ |
| 22 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | Even as a young man , Ezra had always taken a determined stand on general decencies . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Midani , the wealthy Lebanese who had always believed that he had first option should Edwards ever decide to sell , after trying to buy the club himself , insisted more than once : ‘ United must not be caused embarassment , ’ and seemed to be the one participant in what became an increasingly shabby affair who was conscious that great dignity was at stake . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Mr Lawson said he had always played straight with people , which was why the Government was so respected , ‘ even if it is not always loved by all the people ’ . |
| 29 | SUDDENLY , the course of history seemed to change : penalties , a subject that had always clouded Barcelona 's relationship with Real Madrid , now fell upon the Catalans like gentle rain . |
| 30 | 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 . |