StringNet search result

Example sentences of "'d always be " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’
2	But Patsy and Tim wanted a few simple cupboards painted white , made to look as if they 'd always been there .
3	He was just there because he 'd always been there .
4	SHe 'd always been able to disassociate ‘ work ’ from pleasure , clients from lovers , but had been worried that the experience of Jahsaxa 's friends mauling hir might have intruded into this objectivity .
5	Somehow he 'd always been much more sensitive to her feelings .
6	We 'd always been boastful , conspicuous , triumphalist in our love ; now we had to tell the World .
7	‘ I 'd worked in studios before , really complicated state-of-the-art stuff , and I 'd always been obsessed with multi-tracking .
8	I 'd always been fascinated by the people who live on the skid rows of our cities — the ones we regard as the scum of the earth .
9	After completing the questionnaires , Susan felt that working in a library would not only fit her answers but was one of the things she 'd always been interested in doing .
10	Because I 'd always been called skinny .
11	He said ‘ Yes , Ernest , but he 'd always been known as Johnny Walker ’ .
12	Well , I 'd always been a bit too busy — and clever !
13	This she combines admirably with looking after 14-year-old Alex , 12-year-old Rosie , and 5-year-old twins Fifi ( Fiona ) and Nicky : ‘ It was a new direction but something I 'd always been interested in .
14	It was terrible , I 'd always been independent , or when I was n't for a while I got my own social security money .
15	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 .
16	She remembered he 'd always been one for noticing things .
17	Of course he 'd always been enchanted , but , before , it had been too deep in his mind to be fully felt ; he 'd only known there was something that kept him empty inside , stopped him from being a proper person .
18	As far as I knew he 'd always been on the level , and certainly there was no harm in his treating the Fraser girl after the shock she 'd presumably had .
19	The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it .
20	From the old man , you see he 'd always been an old I L P man and er I remember when Harris put up for parliament in the Rushcliffe division .
21	Previously they 'd always been er very staunch liberal , well know intellectuals , Sir James , and he represented the teachers .
22	To imagine for the last time the forests and oceans , green and alive , the way they 'd always been in historical dramas .
23	The way they 'd always been for his people : the fishers , the hunters .
24	‘ I 'd always been good with a sewing machine , ’ she says , ‘ so a kindly neighbour asked me to run her up a few silk separates for the summer holidays .
25	It was so hard to see you suffer when I knew you 'd always been the most gentle , caring person in my life .
26	‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone .
27	I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been .
28	And I 'd always been there , by his side .
29	‘ On top of that , my grandfather was a particularly stalwart member of the church — one who 'd always been admired , feared even , for his rigid adherence to the faith . ’
30	So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up .