Example sentences of "that i have always [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has a look of brutal ambition that I 've always detested ! ’ |
| 2 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 3 | He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’ |
| 4 | You 'd better know now that I 've always avoided every snare set out for me , even those hidden in lush undergrowth … ’ he caressed her hair lightly , his eyes sultry , and then looked down towards the swell of her breasts ‘ … and innocent-looking hills and valleys . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm quite disappointed by the sound of the amp — it 's just not there for me — although I would say that I 've always thought Trace Elliot had a kind of soul-less sound . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been lucky in that I 've always had pace , but the regular training and coaching I 've had at Wigan has made me stronger and faster . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , I might as well tell you that I 've always known I was being unfair to you , using sex to hold on to you . ’ |
| 8 | As John struggles to find another plectrum , I mention that I 'd always thought of him as a fingerstyle player … |
| 9 | Remember that I had always intended to leave spare key with the Twills next door but never got round to it . |
| 10 | He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off ! |
| 11 | Not handsome , but nice-looking in a way I had usually rather deprecated , if not despised : not the lean and craggy looks that I had always admired , but a blunt-featured face with a wide mouth , dark eyes tilted slightly down at the outer corners , and an untidy thatch of brown hair of which a couple of locks fell over a broad forehead , and were from time to time irritably brushed back . |
| 12 | The thought uppermost in my mind was that I had always wondered how young horses felt when I knocked wolf teeth out of them . |
| 13 | In one week I had been transformed into the two personae that I had always sworn to avoid : the preacher and the missionary . |
| 14 | I then said that I had always looked forward to going to the Board of Education . |
| 15 | Many announcements made by the Home Secretary are moving in the way that I have always wanted it to move , and I believe that er , in Wiltshire this will have a very positive effect . |
| 16 | They have taken my life away , my young child from me that I have always wanted , and after just three years and ten months . |
| 17 | I must admit that I have always assumed that ‘ last day ’ of one month compared with ‘ last day ’ of any other month , irrespective of actual date . |
| 18 | Thank you very much , I can only say that I have always felt it a privilege to be part of N C V O. Er , I have enjoyed my time enormously and if I 've had any role that I feel that I 'm proud of , it 's constantly bringing members to mind . |
| 19 | ‘ Giving the public details about oneself is a bourgeois temptation that I have always resisted ’ ( 1879 ) . |
| 20 | Right , well I 've been waiting since er what is it twelve o'clock this morning , what on earth this question can be and I certainly did n't er come up with this possible , erm all I can say is that I have always got on extremely well with Tony and . |
| 21 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
| 22 | While of course the whole business game involves doing better than most of your competitors , the attempt to diversify away from one 's basic business , which so much experience elsewhere has shown to be an extremely difficult operation , is a risk that I have always tried to avoid . |
| 23 | I am still dreaming of the white cotton lace bedspread that I have always promised to knit for my ‘ best friend ’ because I know that she had always wanted one . |
| 24 | That came straight from my early conditioning , my relationship with my mother and the fact that I have always found it easier to give than receive . |