Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] had always [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequently a Georgian house which I had always seen from the road and considered to be all of one date , was revealed , when I came to knock on its door , to be purely a façade built on to a much earlier building . |
| 2 | So no bug-eyed monsters which I had always thought to be the cheapest form of science fiction . |
| 3 | Merstham was in a slightly more rural area of Surrey , and one upon which we had always looked with favour . |
| 4 | It was n't going to be that easy ; her flat — previously her haven from Luke and the bafflement and anger which he had always aroused in her — now seemed to vibrate with his presence . |
| 5 | Despite the cool way in which he had always spoken to her she had thought him different from other men . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On the other hand , McQueen , seven years Dustin 's senior , envied the other 's reputation as a fine actor , something he had always wanted for himself . |
| 8 | Hence the moulding of that most deplorable product the ‘ humble boy ’ and the strengthening of what I had always referred to as ‘ the civil service mentality ’ until I encountered Michael Manley 's much more telling phrase the ‘ psychology of dependence ’ . |
| 9 | It was good to see references at last to what I had always understood to be the correct meaning of hostage ( April 27th ) — that is , ‘ a person given to another as a pledge ’ ( Oxford dictionary ) . |
| 10 | She had put them on without thinking , because they were what she had always worn for travelling outside London , but she began to wonder what David 's mother would think of them and to wish that she had put on her good black coat and skirt instead with one of her London hats . |
| 11 | Others said that Horsley saw in Hayling the image of what he had always wanted to be — idealistic , full of derring-do , glamorous , and free from the tedious baggage of conventional business life . |
| 12 | Though apparently divorced from ‘ Cultural Progress ’ as related to the Basutu , which Eliot was also considering in 1936 , his idea of poetic drama was part of the same concern with embodying and strengthening what he had always associated with ideas of culture and community and which his dealings with the ‘ lower races ’ had helped to teach him : the need for art linked to religious ritual as a central value summing up and sustaining the social values of a culture . |