Example sentences of "have always said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonard could be fastidious to the nth degree in completing his own work — he has always said that he works ‘ one word at a time , ’ and can spend months , even years , in adding finesse to it ; he is nevertheless dismissive of anything approaching scholarly exactitude , still more so pedantry . |
| 2 | The firm claims a good relationship with its Fawley neighbours , and has always said it regrets the difficulties with Torfaen council ( the local authority for Pontypool ) . |
| 3 | The first is that the Prime Minister has always said she regards the fight against inflation as paramount . |
| 4 | Dr Conway Morris has always said there could be other ways to make sense of Hallucigenia , and agrees that the new interpretation may be better . |
| 5 | That 's what the Labour Party has always said . ’ |
| 6 | Britain has always said that , despite its plans for union , Maastricht fails to answer the question posed by the end of the Cold War : how to bring the former communist countries into Europe , and expand the EC to include up to 20 members . |
| 7 | ‘ But the Führer has always said that he has no ideological quarrel with England . ’ |
| 8 | The MoD has always said that safety precautions were ‘ more than adequate ’ . |
| 9 | John has always said that prejudice is hard to combat because it means changing people 's inner feelings , ‘ their hearts and minds ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Diana has always said to her friends throughout her royal career , ‘ I will never become Queen ’ . ’ |
| 11 | But he is perceived as the spokesman of the new regime , and he has always said that he wanted the Panel to ‘ find a company to hang ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 13 | Mrs Bourne has always said if she could prove chemicals were responsible it would make the tragedy easier to bear , as well as ensuring other children did not become needless victims . |
| 14 | And he has always said : ‘ I do n't intend to do a Dan Maskell and go to 82 . ’ |
| 15 | Sadly the loco is showing its age , and the GC has always said that this final six months is a matter of gently does it . |
| 16 | The letter of delegation has always said that Q S will measure |
| 17 | The County Council has always said that the western relief road would produce a reduction of thirty one percent in the amount of traffic on the A sixty one immediately north and south of the town centre . |
| 18 | Eddie Browning has always said he was innocent . |
| 19 | She 'd always said he 'd kill himself driving like that and now he had . |
| 20 | Now I 'd always said to myself , ‘ I 'll never join the Masonic Lodge , ’ and therefore I would n't join the Bobby Burns Club . |
| 21 | Too big for his boots , as she 'd always said . |
| 22 | Brian and Terry remained slightly more cautious , Anderson saying , ‘ I 'll give it a Ben , ’ a reference to Ben Weir who 'd always said , ‘ I 'll give it another month . ’ |
| 23 | We 'd often talked about it and I 'd always said , No , I would never do anything like that until I got married . |
| 24 | He 'd always said so . |
| 25 | Erm cos I 'd always said ooh I would n't ever have a sunbed and all that , but I did in the end , cos we were n't gon na go anywhere so |
| 26 | ‘ It 's what I 've always said — he should n't live on his own , not at his age . ’ |
| 27 | Like I 've always said , ‘ A bad walker always trusts his feet' ’ . |
| 28 | I 'VE ALWAYS SAID I CLIMB MUNROS EVERYONE I GO CLIMBING MUNROS WITH |
| 29 | ‘ What you 've always said , about motivation . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've always said that she 'd be an opera singer , did n't I ? ’ |