Example sentences of "[vb past] always [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mist , blotting out Wickrithe , seemed to banish her tension and sense of danger ; she and Adam were alone and safe , as they 'd always been on Starr Hills . |
| 2 | The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it . |
| 3 | He had liked her , respected her , had always been at ease in her company , but he had never thought that he really knew her , and now he never would . |
| 4 | His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " . |
| 5 | Rachel could see the reasoning behind that , but nevertheless felt angry towards Damian Flint — not because he had so obviously done the right thing , but because he was so clearly in complete control of a situation that had always been beyond Rachel . |
| 6 | Perhaps I had always been in love with him . |
| 7 | Everyone knew how influential the British had always been in Iran . |
| 8 | There was a book that had always been in Primrose Cottage , a thick book with a torn green dust-jacket . |
| 9 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
| 10 | While she had been a slave to her newly awakened senses , Travis had always been in control . |
| 11 | Villa had always been in command , but a combination of poor finishing and fine goalkeeping by David Seaman prevented them taking full advantage . |
| 12 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |