Example sentences of "have always [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neneh Cherry , daughter of a restless soul , has always dreamt of a place called home , ‘ that happy little space where I can be free ’ . |
| 2 | But , along with the other twelves in this column , New Element 's single spits from the speakers with the sort of beefy sound the UK has always dreamed of achieving . |
| 3 | ‘ After the success of ‘ Colour Of Spring ’ we found ourselves in the position we 'd always dreamed of , ’ explains Mark Hollis , the main force behind Talk Talk . |
| 4 | He 's quite good-looking in a film-starry way — I 'd always thought of him as young . |
| 5 | As John struggles to find another plectrum , I mention that I 'd always thought of him as a fingerstyle player … |
| 6 | He 'd always thought of gypsies as swarthy of complexion , but this girl 's face was pale olive and he knew that if he touched it , it would be as soft as silk . |
| 7 | He 'd always thought of that as a cliché before he met Emily . |
| 8 | He 'd always thought of her as pliable , sexy , more of an ornament than a partner for a man like Adolph Brückner . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've always thought of the guitar as another voice , so I start with a voice , singing along with the vocal , and from time to time you can hear a place where other voices would come in , like backing harmonies , which then become part of it . |
| 10 | I 've always thought of Agnew as being the exact antithesis of Duveen . |
| 11 | I 've always thought of it as a sort of last resort . |
| 12 | And I 've always thought of marriage as a sort of young adventure , two people of the same age setting out together , discovering together , growing together . |
| 13 | I 've always thought of myself as a sensible person , yet I allowed myself to do that . |
| 14 | ‘ You know , Morse , ’ panted Max as he eased his overweight frame into his car , ‘ I 've always thought of myself more as a Renaissance man , actually . ’ |
| 15 | I 've always thought of class in the following way — I think that , that class is broadly , or used to be broadly , ways in which people live . |
| 16 | It 's what we 've always dreamed of , Kokos : revolution from within . ’ |
| 17 | My parish priest had always dreamed of building outstation churches and , with the luxury of two curates , here was his chance to convert one into a builders ' labourer ! |
| 18 | Here she was with an opportunity to do something for her mother , something she had always dreamed of doing , and she would have to refuse . |
| 19 | I had always dreamed of living in the country . |
| 20 | She had always thought of Jack as a Greek hero , indeed as that particular hero . |
| 21 | When Mountbatten flew off to India , he thought of himself as he had always thought of himself , as a leader of men . |
| 22 | I should explain that I never once thought that he should ‘ give way to me ’ — as Nonni said he should — because I was ill ; only because , as I told him , I had always thought of him as ‘ a reasonable human being with some pretensions to morality ’ . |
| 23 | When I actually began to realize that there were advantages to being gay , that changed my whole attitude — up till then I had always thought of it as something to be sorry for , to apologize for . |
| 24 | At least , so Marco said , and expatiated freely on the idea of a performance he had always thought of mounting there , a mood piece , a son et lumière . |
| 25 | She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation . |
| 26 | She had always thought of her father as attractive , even handsome , though she knew not everyone did . |
| 27 | She had always thought of herself as singular , as Jacob 's only daughter . |
| 28 | Ben studied his brother — the man he had always thought of as his father and saw suddenly that it did not matter what he was in reality , for Hal Shepherd had become what he believed he was . |
| 29 | I had always thought of Italy as my spiritual home . |
| 30 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |