Example sentences of "[noun] have always [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was accused of asserting that Hitler had rejected the army 's suggestions of an airlift to remove the encircled troops , and of saying : ‘ The Führer has always spoken himself about how important Stalingrad is , and now he 's gone and lost it . ’ |
| 2 | Ireland has always prided itself on its ' concern for developing countries . |
| 3 | Grant had always prided himself on his fitness and worked out regularly in his health club gym , but by the time he made it to where the stone coping of the sloping gable joined the chimney stack , he felt as though every muscle of his arms and shoulders were on fire . |
| 4 | Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has always shown himself to be a listening Minister . |
| 6 | Japan has always prided itself in the high quality of its water supply . |
| 7 | And Sally had always prided herself on being sensible , if nothing else . |
| 8 | DARLINGTON has always prided itself on its railway heritage and is nationally known as the railway town . |
| 9 | Glasgow has always marketed itself as a city which rejoices in diversity , and courts cosmopolitanism . |
| 10 | That was how insanity had always presented itself to Kathleen Lavender 's imagination . |
| 11 | Education commission reports past and present have always addressed themselves in varying degrees of rigour to the analysis of educational objectives and it would be possible to collect an impressive dossier of high minded statements of intent . |