Example sentences of "[conj] had always " in BNC.

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1 SUDDENLY , the course of history seemed to change : penalties , a subject that had always clouded Barcelona 's relationship with Real Madrid , now fell upon the Catalans like gentle rain .
2 Before the study began , few people knew about the dolphin , but the upsurge in public interest prompted many locals to claim that they were seeing more dolphins recently than ever before , whereas in fact they had probably just taken greater notice of something that had always been there .
3 But on this particular morning it was taking him longer than usual to kindle the cheeky spark that had always singled him out from the rest .
4 He knew , in his heart , that he had always been a little bit frightened of it really … opening out the throttle … he remembered the feeling of queasiness that had always accompanied that burst of power .
5 There was a showdown and in 1914 the relationship that had always been so ambivalent was destroyed .
6 Before William 's men could reload , or fix their old-fashioned plug-in bayonets , the enemy were upon them , fearsome in their kilts and ferociously wielding the dirks , claymores and broadswords that had always been the clansmen 's favoured weapons .
7 Malc clicked Dad 's seat-belt in place , lowered his arm-rest and rocked silently away from the house that had always been home .
8 And that had always been my intention . ’
9 But of the endless numbers that had always grown there , only a few dozen remained .
10 I can evoke the wind at will and make it rustle the stiff papery blades of the bamboos and sing , through the comb-like leaves of the yew , as a worthy accompaniment to the voice that on that day and on all other days , even to the final silence , spoke words that had always the same meaning .
11 The American critic W. Stephen Bush reflected on how the poor and lowly had only been tolerated in the theatre and all too often forced up into the gallery , but the movies had ‘ emancipated the gallery ’ and had ‘ wiped out for ever the odium and ridicule ’ that had always been shown towards its clientele .
12 The solution was relatively easy partly because what was required by society as a whole fitted in very closely with what the showmen believed themselves and partly because the new social awareness was really only a refinement of those old nineteenth-century platitudes that had always underpinned popular fiction .
13 A company that had always been paranoiac about labour unions , it should have noticed that it was suddenly at the mercy of customers ' unions .
14 A created universe , unlike one that had always existed , was one in which the Creator had been free to exercise His will in devising the laws that nature should obey .
15 I lay on his bed later and strove to want him , strove to feel even a faint shadow of the sensations that had always engulfed me before , when I had known they must be frustrated .
16 It was Sylvie 's unconventionality that had always fascinated them all .
17 Of course that had always been the case , the young always did set the fashion ; but never before did it change so rapidly , never before were the older generation so pathetically afraid of being left behind .
18 His father 's four mahogany filing-cabinets from Primrose Cottage were there , in pairs against two walls , between glass-fronted bookcases that had always been in the room .
19 There was a book that had always been in Primrose Cottage , a thick book with a torn green dust-jacket .
20 ‘ My parents lived in an area that had always been traditionally Hindu .
21 His next kiss was very different from the ones that had gone before — swift , fierce and possessive , as if he were claiming back something that had always belonged to him .
22 My bed , fine , but my life … that was something that had always been untouchable , and , as far as I was concerned , always would be .
23 Seb thought she looked thinner and seemed to have lost much of the air of confidence that had always been so much a part of her .
24 Those based east of the Meuse , in lands that had always been destined for Lothar , readily answered his summons to a great assembly at Ingelheim in August .
25 Now the sons , dominated by their love for and estimation of the primal father could maintain the altruism and cooperativeness of their way of life because of their guilt regarding the one thing that had always threatened that cooperation — their lust .
26 The station concourse was a seething mass of people , civilian and uniformed , with a fair spattering of the drunks that had always been part of the city 's landscape when he had ridden up from Galloway on weekends free from school .
27 It was good , and it was getting better , and no matter what he did , all the old tricks that had always worked so well , the talking in the wings , blocking her when she was on stage , that voice never faltered .
28 She was aware that , even standing there , rolling up the sleeves above his tanned , muscular arms as he pondered the problem before him , Ross still possessed that sinister stillness , the iron self-control that had always set him apart from any one else she had ever known .
29 How dared he do this to her — how dared he rob her of something that had always been her life 's blood ?
30 An influence strong enough to rob her of the natural exuberant self-confidence that had always been a central , unthinking part of her personality .
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