Example sentences of "[pron] always [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always had to be polite and caring . ’ |
| 2 | I always try to be nice to the kids . |
| 3 | I always like to be well-dressed . |
| 4 | I thank my hon. Friend ; I always like to be fair to Ministers . |
| 5 | It 's hard to tell , cos I always seemed to be awake , but then I remember waking up with a jump when this voice comes over the loud speaker . |
| 6 | ‘ And anyway , why do I always have to be the German ? ’ |
| 7 | According to Madonna , ‘ I always wanted to be a movie star . |
| 8 | I always wanted to be in show business and here I am — part of show business . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was not the great campaigning journalist , but I always wanted to be able to give facts , be they favourable or unfavourable to the authorities . ’ |
| 10 | I always wanted to be an actor since I was about five and my parents would take me to the cinema and theatre . |
| 11 | Noel Blake summed up the general view : ‘ I always wanted to be a footballer ; there was never anything else . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
| 13 | So I got er experience of three months now , that was really very nice experience which I always wanted to be a teacher although I did n't join here . |
| 14 | ‘ I started writing scripts when I was fifteen , ’ he said , ‘ and I always wanted to be a serious writer . |
| 15 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm wearing a denim waistcoat , cheesecloth shirt and baggy denim jeans , and I 'm smiling fit to burst , as I always seem to be in photographs . |
| 17 | I always seem to be landing you in it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I always seem to be sitting around on verandas with you , Johnny . |
| 19 | I always seem to be reading about a new food scare . |
| 20 | The mother was just out of sight around the corner in the kitchen making Mr Wormwood 's breakfast which always had to be two fried eggs on fried bread with three pork sausages and three strips of bacon and some fried tomatoes . |
| 21 | Apricot Computers Ltd , which always likes to be first with Intel 's latest chip , will reportedly announce a P5-based machine in September , but with the enormous leap in complexity in the microprocessor , the other major worry has to be that it will take early users of the chip at least 18 months to find all the bugs in it and for Intel to correct them . |
| 22 | He was certainly an attractive man , with bright , smiling eyes and a face which always seemed to be on the point of laughter . |
| 23 | Not so popular was the experimental survival section of the course which always seemed to be carried out in extremely inclement weather with a helicopter helping to increase the discomfort of tossing about on a life raft in Plymouth Sound . |
| 24 | I have long , naturally curly hair which always seems to be dry and often goes frizzy . |
| 25 | Your current occupancy rate is 50 per cent and you have a restaurant for 60 which always appears to be empty . |
| 26 | Another pleasing choice was Alnus Cordata which is one of medium to large size and has heart-shaped leaves which always seem to be freshly polished and gleaming , accompanied from summer onwards by cone-shaped fruiting heads . |
| 27 | Josh was still bewildered by the sudden change in living standard from California sun and the constant care of cheerful Kathy ( now working for another family in nearby Markham Square ) to the stuffy flat in Pimlico where his babysitter , Mrs Gooden , a retired cook , watched over Josh and her other six little charges , one of whom always seemed to be bare-bottomed and on the potty . |
| 28 | How could she always appear to be so right ? |
| 29 | ‘ But you know how she always likes to be in the centre of things . ’ |
| 30 | If she ever saw her , she thought worriedly ; she always seemed to be rushing off somewhere — and then she jumped when someone tapped on the door . |