Example sentences of "had always [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a big , noisy fellow and had always felt out of place in those discreet British restaurants with their strict dress code and moody staff who 'd be looking at their watches every five minutes from 9pm onwards . ’ |
| 2 | Those boys ( they were few , for academic impulses withered and died in the Burleigh air ) who aimed at Advanced Level , or even university , had always trickled off into the state system as soon as they had taken their Ordinary Levels , if not before . |
| 3 | She was the one who had always gone on about what a paragon my father was . |
| 4 | Because the women in my family and most families in Scotland had always gone out to work . |
| 5 | All he knew was that he had always woken up with a splitting headache afterwards , and often wished he 'd had the headache instead the night before . |
| 6 | Successive personnel managers had always caved in to his demands as they knew full well that Clasper would win a stand-up fight . |
| 7 | While the Midland had expected that its reserves would be lower than either Barclays or NatWest , both newly merged , it was horrified to learn that the true capital of Lloyds , a bank it had always looked down on , was £266m , £73m higher than its own . |
| 8 | Elaine a retired civil servant who had worked all her life , felt she made a mistake in retiring at the same time as her friend Louise who had always opted out of the cooking and cleaning in favour of gardening and doing the decorating . |
| 9 | Her mother had stated then that it would probably not be necessary to move again , but she had always shied off from friendships — so many of them had been lost before . |
| 10 | Doreen Wranklin could n't understand it as she had always paid up on time . |