Example sentences of "[noun] it have always [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every last bit of unkempt hedge in our front garden was taking the same attitude it had always taken . |
| 2 | It did n't last ; Spandau and Duran , along with Culture Club and Wham ! , became future corporate Live Aid company rockers , 1980s pop lost its ABC-style irony and became the commodity it had always mocked . |
| 3 | Its not-very-complicated mind was trying to come to terms with the fact that the shape of the nomes — two arms , two legs , a head at the top — was a shape it associated with humans and had learnt to avoid , but the size was the size it had always thought of as a mouthful . |
| 4 | Numerical strength does not necessarily confer power , but in Whitehall it has always counted towards influence . |
| 5 | For this reason it has always enjoyed a notability out of all relation to its size . |
| 6 | ‘ The meeting of two causal series , the real series of the war and the imaginary series of Bolshevik politics , lent Bolshevism the reality it had always lacked . ’ |
| 7 | While the Midland had expected that its reserves would be lower than either Barclays or NatWest , both newly merged , it was horrified to learn that the true capital of Lloyds , a bank it had always looked down on , was £266m , £73m higher than its own . |
| 8 | But beyond all this , Malham goes about its business of being a living Dales village , with its farms and farmers , its village hall and little shops , very much in the way it has always done . |
| 9 | Having got the kind of structure it had always insisted upon , it seems clear that Britain had no qualms about such a statement being used to promote some version of supranationalism . |