Example sentences of "[pron] he have always [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't going to be that easy ; her flat — previously her haven from Luke and the bafflement and anger which he had always aroused in her — now seemed to vibrate with his presence . |
| 2 | All this activity and talk of new Rainbow Alliances chimed perfectly with Lowe 's newspaper plan , which he had always seen as partly being based on , and partly bringing about , greater co-operation on the far left . |
| 3 | Although Coleridge never produced the great metaphysical work which he had always intended , he passed on his ideas by lectures , journalism and conversation . |
| 4 | Despite the cool way in which he had always spoken to her she had thought him different from other men . |
| 5 | He sought resolve and found a little and went to lie down on the bed to read a paperback of Anna Karenina , which he had always fancied because it had a scene on a railway platform . |
| 6 | In recounting the story of his life , he assumes a variety of identities and gives multiple conflicting versions of events in a contradictory attempt to acquire the sense of identity he has always lacked and to conceal himself from a world by which he has always felt persecuted . |
| 7 | But more than that he is anxious to win the one big race about which he has always dreamed — the National . |
| 8 | I would gladly say , ‘ Heil Hitler ! ’ and at once part company with him , realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to tlatter him with an imitation which he has always disdained . |
| 9 | Conran asked this manager to carry out a feasibility study , the result of which convinced him that Habitat should move into France , a country for which he has always had a great fondness . |
| 10 | On the other hand , McQueen , seven years Dustin 's senior , envied the other 's reputation as a fine actor , something he had always wanted for himself . |
| 11 | Murder was to make him something he had always suspected he might be , but had never dreamed of becoming — interesting . |
| 12 | It was something he had always longed to explore . |
| 13 | He is a man who has deliberately avoided certain responsibilities in his life , and certain involvements , but those business obligations which do unavoidably devolve upon him he has always observed punctiliously . |
| 14 | Of its contents he retained only the haziest notion ; and he explained that he would have been reluctant to contribute to such a volume — his Second Thoughts on Humanism , published a year earlier , had consisted of a devastating criticism of the editor — save that it represented a tribute to Irving Babbitt , whom he had always revered as one of his masters and about whom he felt that his early criticism had been misunderstood , not least by Babbitt himself . |
| 15 | On the other hand , Ecgfrith 's consecration was a specifically Mercian matter for he was being consecrated as Offa 's successor in Mercia , and it may be that Offa desired archiepiscopal status for the Mercian bishop who would officiate and whom he had always intended should do so . |
| 16 | He refused to acknowledge Tobias , whom he had always labelled as ‘ stoddy ’ . |
| 17 | One consequence of this immobility is that everyone is surrounded by people very like himself , most of whom he has always known . |
| 18 | On this basis he may by all means erect a system of imperatives logically interrelated with statements of objective fact , and elaborate it to any degree of complexity he pleases , but to confirm or correct it he has always to return to subjectivity , to his own spontaneity in the concrete situation . |
| 19 | That 's what he had always wanted to do , and Klepner was his advance guard . |
| 20 | Walsh was ecstatic : now the paper was looking far beyond the Right-On supporters ' group and being told what he had always wanted to believe — there was a large group of solid working-class people fed up with the frivolity in the existing tabloids . |
| 21 | Others said that Horsley saw in Hayling the image of what he had always wanted to be — idealistic , full of derring-do , glamorous , and free from the tedious baggage of conventional business life . |
| 22 | They told him what he had always suspected : Diana was determined to walk out of the marriage . |
| 23 | Though apparently divorced from ‘ Cultural Progress ’ as related to the Basutu , which Eliot was also considering in 1936 , his idea of poetic drama was part of the same concern with embodying and strengthening what he had always associated with ideas of culture and community and which his dealings with the ‘ lower races ’ had helped to teach him : the need for art linked to religious ritual as a central value summing up and sustaining the social values of a culture . |
| 24 | She did not utter what he had always got . |
| 25 | In the first chilly greyness of dawn , before the sun rose , Sergeant Comstock , of the uniformed branch , who came of a long line of native fishermen , not to say poachers , and knew his river as he knew the palm of his own hand , thankfully abandoned what he had always known was a useless patrol of the left bank downstream , and on his own responsibility borrowed one of his many nephews , and embarked with him in the coracle which was his natural means of personal transport on the Comer . |
| 26 | He practises what he has always preached — respect and tolerance for people of whatever religion , who try to live a good life by their own creed . |
| 27 | The commonest explanation of King Hussein 's behaviour is that he is only doing what he has always done best : surviving . |
| 28 | He exhibits in himself what he has always taught students was the true excitement of learning : the possibility of mastery . |