Example sentences of "[noun prp] always [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry Cotton always maintained that the turning point in his own career was his sojourn in America in the company of Tommy Armour . |
| 2 | Ken always thought that was untrue . |
| 3 | Yet Hardy always insisted that these memories were only impressions , ‘ moments of vision ’ which added up to nothing more than ‘ diverse readings ’ on the road to a ‘ true philosophy of life ’ . |
| 4 | Hardy always stressed that the publication of his first collection of poems in 1898 marked a return to his original love , poetry . |
| 5 | Freud always said that his conceptualizations of the instincts were for specific purposes and could be further developed and altered later on , as indeed they were . |
| 6 | Dr always insisting that she was n't campaigning for the legalization of cannabis . |
| 7 | Sister Hope always said that a sympathetic nurse-patient relationship was essential in any severe illness . |
| 8 | Gould always argued that this perception of the use of recording technology divided by generation . |
| 9 | Blaina always felt that they had the ability to go up last season so , to ensure that they do not miss out a second time , a new team manager was recruited and given the task of harnessing the club 's talent . |
| 10 | Nancy always proclaimed that the only man in her life was her father , who wrote to her faithfully every Sunday , ‘ My best boy friend ’ , she called him . |
| 11 | But Tritsis always claimed that his politics were shaped more by memories of the horrors of the Greek Civil War from 1946 to 1949 . |
| 12 | William always went that step further into life 's nightmares , and he 'd been closer to it , to start with . |
| 13 | Watkins always said that the best photographs are taken ‘ along the ley ’ . |
| 14 | Finch always maintained that he was never a hellraiser and that his image was wishful publicity by the press . |
| 15 | As a relieved and slightly rueful Bryan Robson put it : ‘ Shilts always complains that his worst night is when he has nothing to do . |
| 16 | Du Maurier always said that her life would be dull , not to her but to other people . |
| 17 | In 1987 perhaps the Prime Minister 's pre-election visit to Moscow and her eve-of-election trip to the Venice summit of Western leaders were favourable to her re-election , but ‘ Harold Wilson always asserted that a bad set of trade figures a few days before polling cost him an election , while the effect of being centre-stage during the Iran hostages affair may have been devastating to Jimmy Carter 's fortunes ’ . |
| 18 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ DeFries always thought that in order for us to absorb musical culture as it should be from America , we should actually go and live in America , and it took quite a few months for it all to be organized . |
| 19 | It was on a trip to Frankfurt with a mixed load of several 2,000lb bombs and the varied load of experimental PFF flares and early target indicator devices ; Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful . |
| 20 | Hopkins always maintained that work with men was her favourite form of campaigning . |
| 21 | Nicholas Ridley always boasted that he was a Thatcherite before Mrs Thatcher . |
| 22 | Coleman always claimed that the examination conducted by the medical committee was not a farce , but that unambiguous questions were fairly put , and no student was ever failed because he dissented from his teacher 's views . |
| 23 | Uncle Tommy always said that there was insanity in the family , so that incident proves it , if nothing else . |
| 24 | Schoener 's globe of the world then known shows Japan a few hundred miles off Mexico ; the historian López de Gomara says that in his negotiations with the Emperor Magellan always insisted that the Moluccas were ‘ no great distance from Panama , and the Gulf of San Miguel which Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered ’ . |
| 25 | So far from regarding the 1935 result as a foregone conclusion , Baldwin always felt that the choice of date , intermeshed with the fostering of the suitable national mood , was one of his more considerable political challenges . |
| 26 | Its bed and furniture were entirely homely , however , and perhaps not as dainty as the elegant young French lady might like , but it did have a nice view of the hustle and bustle of Newington Butts , and Mrs Beavis always reckoned that if you could see life going on from your window , you could n't grumble too much about not having dainty furniture . |
| 27 | The Kennedys always maintained that the secret of running for any office was a matter of pacing . |
| 28 | Tony always says that you can tell a happy motorcyclist by the flies on his teeth . |
| 29 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 30 | Jonathan always thinks that what he says is so fantastic that he 's got to say it twice in case you missed it the first time round . |