Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have always [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 It 's er and and I have always wanted to be president of the board of trade .
2 Well , so was I. ‘ And her mother and I have always worried about her . ’
3 Lou and I have always presented a good public face : we make a happily married couple , a busy professional pair ; she in the media — seen as a little suspect , a little too clever for her own good — he in the interpretive arts : sensitive , hard-working , dedicated : often away .
4 Then , as now , people had nicknames as they do in Wales , and I have always suspected that this type of labelling has causes other than the lack of variety in local surnames .
5 Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them .
6 Does he further agree that the fact that 71 vessels have been ordered by the Ministry of Defence since 1979 confirms what my hon. Friends and I have always believed — that under the present Government the Royal Navy will continue to play an important role and provide a fine career in the foreseeable future ?
7 ‘ What no-one can deny is that I have Scottish blood in me , and I have always known it was there ’ , he said .
8 ‘ I 'm very happy and I have always had a good relationship with the board . ’
9 I wrote to Ivy ( more or less ) : ‘ People say that work is a comfort at such times , and I have always thought it very sad that an author 's work is no good at all , and indeed can not be done . ’
10 The direction of swing is decided by the position of the seam in relation to the line of flight , and I have always thought it more important than polish .
11 The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague .
12 ‘ People are always trying to put me down and I have always come back better . ’
13 But we knew it was not , and I have always cherished the strange memory of how those women , who live at such an extreme of personal restriction , had a means of acknowledging their own desire to go free through a custom which celebrated the tides of darkness and the moon .
14 I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country .
15 — these were the first decent UG plates to appear in the hobby , and I have always stuck to them , having no cause to complain after 15 years of use .
16 We have defined awareness as the disposition to take into account in choices , and we have always insisted that although a capacity to recall a feeling is necessary to continuing awareness of it , a constant maintenance of the feeling is not .
17 ‘ We have kept that memory with us ever since and we have always believed that the Trees would ever be on the side of the Wolfkings and the Beastline and the One True Ireland . ’
18 Bush ended his speech by returning to the Desert War theme and informing his audience that " We are still the freest nation on earth ; the kindest nation on earth ; the strongest nation on earth ; and we have always risen to the occasion .
19 As you may know , CPRW produces a Christmas Card each year and we have always chosen to reproduce a painting by a living artist working or residing in Wales .
20 As you may know , CPRW produces a Christmas Card each year and we have always chosen to reproduce a painting by a living artist working or residing in Wales .
21 And we have always valued the important contribution made by the churches to our children 's education .
22 Even with Emily I did n't shut up , and we have always had the capacity for shutting up .
23 I have always enjoyed going to Highfield Holiday park and to Clacton because I know that when you get there , there always seem to be a lot of people who make the effort to welcome people to the Holiday park and they have always seemed friendly and if anything was wrong i.e. you lose something or somebody accidentally falls and hurts themselves or indeed somebody else the staff are always quick to help and so are a lot of other people who are on holiday there .
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