Example sentences of "[pron] had always have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them .
2 France was devastated and er they had always had a lace trade but we found in after years , this is a point that should n't be missed , that destruction by the Germans and the replacing under reparations , I understood the money came from , anyway the firm worked day and night for years , er left Nottingham the lace centre with the old pre-war machines and France and areas , including Italy , er with the modern machines .
3 He had always had a capacity for ruthlessness .
4 But he had always had a wish to join the Army , and at sixteen he enlisted as a drummer boy .
5 As he reclined in his sofa , surrounded by a treasure trove of knick-knacks collected from around the world , Mark said he had always had a taste for travel .
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