Example sentences of "have always found " in BNC.

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1 He brings to his games an intensity of concentration few can match , but he has always found Karpov a very difficult opponent .
2 Sir John Cuckney 's career has embraced a fascinating mix of public- and private-sector service , a combination he has always found very appealing .
3 He was invited to become chairman of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board , which fell into the grey area between the public and private sector for which Sir John has always found special fascination .
4 Inside , he has always found that the people who buy the bigger houses like one or two very large rooms , while the stables and service wings at the back make smaller cottages for people working locally .
5 Yet the government has always found it safer to regulate companies than to tax consumers , and Mr Bush is especially averse to taxes .
6 Though he is very much a mystic , there is a part of Ali that has always found security and a skewed understanding of life in the quantifiable : amounts , calibrated outcomes , the creaking , reassuring machinery of living .
7 Ballesteros has always found it difficult to leave his home in Pedrena .
8 Reductivist theory ( at least in its utilitarian form ) has always found it difficult to encompass the notion of rights , even when it comes to providing entirely innocent people with a right not to be punished .
9 Although she considers herself a practical , outgoing person more than an intellectual , she has always found literature a great mental enricher .
10 My brother has always found the civil service most accommodating … ’
11 The use of the collective pronoun in Charity 's invitation to the Antelope Public House reminded Charles how cliquey he 'd always found it there .
12 Her perception of physics as a discipline is one that is about ideas and concepts ; she said that she 'd always found physics much more ‘ dynamic ’ than ‘ static ’ subjects like chemistry and geography .
13 She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track .
14 I 've always found it paid , in the Army and in business .
15 I 've always found it rather sad that a man could produce something as evocative as this and also produce a child who could not appreciate it. ,
16 Irons I 've used before have also offered this facility , but I 've always found I 've ended up toing and froing between the tap once too often .
17 I 've always found the settlements on the A82 between Crianlarich and Glencoe most peculiar .
18 ‘ I 've always found Henry the Third 's reign confusing .
19 But I 've always found the Flying V and its derivatives a devil of a job to sit down with and play .
20 I tell him how hard I 've always found it .
21 And he stopped me and said : ‘ Son , I saw ye practising , and I 've always found with a player of your capabilities it is best to tell them to hit it straight at the pin ! ’
22 MICHAEL Parkinson has never been my favourite TV presenter — I 've always found his brusque , man-of-the-people style somewhat contrived .
23 I 've always found children to be OK , but I 've never completely worked them out .
24 ‘ I 've always found nature hugely entertaining .
25 But now — well , I 've always found that there was something in what Fiver had to say .
26 I 've always found him accessible himself .
27 I think I 've always found it hard to talk to people except for my best mate .
28 There is also the difference between employees who are in offices , who for some reason or other , I 've always found and still do , they seem to have a notion that they 're a different class to others who work for wages .
29 I 've always found a periscope to be a very useful accessory in these conditions .
30 ambiguous , I 've always found it so
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