Example sentences of "[pron] have always [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added : ‘ Some donors are not so keen to make contact with the people they help but I have always wanted to receive a picture of Berend and , maybe , meet him . ’ |
| 2 | Leading me where I have always wanted to go yet never known how . |
| 3 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 4 | I have always wanted to do this as I love my hair and can do a lot with it . |
| 5 | ‘ When I went to live with Celia I asked her to find me work — voluntary work ; I have always wanted to help others . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have always wanted to write for as many people as possible , I want my books to be on the general fiction shelves as well as the feminist shelves . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I have always wanted to write songs and you find yourself having to learn to play the guitar . ’ |
| 8 | You know I have always wanted to get married , not for always , but just for once in my life I wanted to live out my love for a man like they did . |
| 9 | Richardson said : ‘ I have always wanted to play county cricket and this is a great challenge . ’ |
| 10 | I have always liked to read the Golden Age detective stories , if you like , the country house murder mysteries , but I would have to admit that reading those is to some extent desire for stasis , a desire erm for a particularly safe kind of world , where everything works out in the end , because that 's usually what happens , and so these days I tend only to take very small doses of that particular medicine . |
| 11 | Although the instruction books that come with new machines recommend certain ways of setting such machines up , I have always liked to experiment across the range of possible settings . |
| 12 | I have always liked to work in a simple room , he wrote . |
| 13 | P.C. Well , Sir , I have always endeavoured to keep my beat clean , and I have seen people committing perhaps but technical offences , but I have not thought them sufficiently serious to caution them . |
| 14 | ‘ I have always gone to see her at Kensington Palace — well , I was n't going to see her in a railway siding , was I ? |
| 15 | Certainly he believed that his inner feeling of being most alive , most engaged with real issues , in his contemplative experience , was a gift from God and that his whole integrity depended on his furthering a life-style which he believed enabled him to receive the gift , however strong the opposition he encountered : Above all else I have always longed to sit and concentrate on Christ , and him alone … |
| 16 | I have always managed to miss the occasional pairs that nest on the Union Canal near my home and I am relying on second-hand reports when I say that the drake whistles softly to his mate who makes raucous growling noises in return . |
| 17 | No , I have always preferred to do it this way , though I must say the Missa Solemnis is a very difficult work to direct . |
| 18 | I am still dreaming of the white cotton lace bedspread that I have always promised to knit for my ‘ best friend ’ because I know that she had always wanted one . |
| 19 | She wrote to Jane at the start of her employment : ‘ There are two things I beg you to do : get your time each day in the fresh air and strictly limit the hours you spend on your work , which I have always had to do anyway with such a large family and it does make sense in the end . |
| 20 | Consistently with the practice of all former Prime Ministers I have always refused to publish details of Cabinet Committees or to answer Questions in the House about them . |
| 21 | I do n't have faith because I have always refused to hand over my reason . |
| 22 | ‘ I have always tried to live in an ivory tower , but a tide of shit is beating at its walls , threatening to undermine it . ’ |
| 23 | I have always tried to do my best for Mandy . |
| 24 | ‘ I have always tried to take him as a melancholy warning ’ ( wrote Tolkien in 1964 ) , so the danger was seen . |
| 25 | Which is why I have always tried to insist that my players have proper ways of relaxing away from their work . |
| 26 | Even at the club level I have always tried to bring in people from lower divisions because , sooner or later , the people playing low down will get higher up — some , not all of them . |
| 27 | While of course the whole business game involves doing better than most of your competitors , the attempt to diversify away from one 's basic business , which so much experience elsewhere has shown to be an extremely difficult operation , is a risk that I have always tried to avoid . |
| 28 | ‘ Since then , I have always tried to make things even . |
| 29 | Perhaps you have always wanted to go up in a hot air balloon , appear on stage in a local amateur production or jump from a higher board at the swimming pool — well , how about it ? |
| 30 | If you choose this type of holiday a good starting point is to decide on a city that fascinates you and which you have always wanted to visit and book a package trip ( that is one in which travel , hotel , and meals are included , with some guided tours ) . |