Example sentences of "[pers pn] always [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The first animal she ever made friends with was a pig : ‘ When I was small I always wanted to join a circus with a troupe of six Tamworth pigs .
2 I always had to pay a nurse to look after her ; she wasted away , could n't stand or walk , but her eyes were as bright as a child 's and so was her wit .
3 The US Masters champion added : ‘ I always try to defend a title but I have sweated my guts out in America this year to get where I am and I feel I am entitled to play .
4 If there is one thing more disagreeable than removing the bovine afterbirth it is watching somebody else doing it , and I always try to maintain a conversation as I grope around inside .
5 Such a simple idea , I always thought to have a wall of panelled doors that folded back .
6 I always did like a challenge .
7 I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way .
8 I always wanted to find a woman who liked to do what I liked to do — but I could never find one who wanted to drink and chase women .
9 " I always wanted to have a child , " said a nineteen-year-old woman living on a Sunderland housing estate with her parents .
10 CATHERINE No , I would like to have been , I always wanted to have a child but I never did .
11 Actually , I always wanted to write a play about how life gets so tedious that we start reminiscing about what happened two minutes ago .
12 'E always seems to 'ave a lot ter say fer 'imself . ‘
13 She always expected to find a rival ; but there was no rival , unless you count Emma Bovary .
14 And ‘ Did you always want to run a business ? ’
15 Anyway , if you always want to hear a piece of music played in a certain way , you might as well sit at home in the lounge and listen to your favourite , definitive CD recording .
16 You always seem to want a curry .
17 We always had given a concert .
18 And he always had a pot of linseed and black Spanish , and we always had to have a drink of this , cos he thought it was fantastic .
19 ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’
20 Off camera , we always seemed to have a laugh .
21 We always strove to get a solution that was acceptable all round .
22 We make ourselves known in the village w erm you see we 've got the peace movement at the moment and last year er we always have put a wreath .
23 We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea .
24 ‘ As long as Drexel was there , ’ says Mr Sind , ‘ they always managed to find a way to struggle from debt-payment date to debt-payment date . ’
25 They always did taste a bit funny you know , did n't they ?
26 They always seem to do a lot just here
27 She often forgot how handsome Georg was , especially lately when he always seemed to have a scowl on his face .
28 Besides , he always began creating a character from the voice .
29 But Bingham retorted : ‘ When Jack 's nervous he always seems to have a go .
30 Once you 've found a style you like , it always helps to take a picture of it with you to the salon .
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