Example sentences of "always [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah and he went and she said well it that 'd always been across that road |
| 2 | ‘ And for all the way she bullied other people , she 's always been under that fellow 's thumb and so has Dympna . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I 've always been into all kinds of guitarists , ’ Guy explains . |
| 4 | But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession . |
| 5 | In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier . |
| 6 | So I would think it 's just always been at that that site . |
| 7 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 8 | He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right . |
| 9 | Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition . |
| 10 | And he 's always been like that . |
| 11 | During the Reagan presidency , the Guardian kept blaming his errors on age , and perforce , there I was again with another angry letter — ‘ Son of Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — pointing out that , like it or not , Ronald Reagan had always been like that , making the same kind of statement and endorsing the same brand of policies . |
| 12 | ‘ He is a strain — but it 's not what I have to do for him — it 's the way he is — he 's always been like that . ’ |
| 13 | And it occurred to him that it had almost always been like that : he the serious and thoughtful one , and the one he loved mostly careless and unconcerned . |
| 14 | He 's always been like that and he has n't changed . |
| 15 | It has always been like that . |
| 16 | He 's always been like that . |
| 17 | He has always been like that , even when he was quite small . ’ |
| 18 | She had n't always been like that — at least , not when I first knew her . |
| 19 | I 've always been like that . |
| 20 | I 've always been like that . |
| 21 | Charles remembered that Gerald had always been like that . |
| 22 | It had always been like that . |
| 23 | If he looks at the statistics , he will see that it has always been like that . |
| 24 | Has Kirkwall always been like that then ? |
| 25 | I 've always been like that . |
| 26 | I 've always been like that . |
| 27 | Has she always been like that or is this ? |
| 28 | No it 's always been like that . |
| 29 | Yes they 've always been like that and they always will be like that . |
| 30 | I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that . |