Example sentences of "[verb] always [vb pp] [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your mother has always wanted you to do what you want but she will insist that you can only stay here if you have a job . |
| 2 | He holds the romantic belief that only the wordless language of music is complete and it is music which has always helped him to live and to write . |
| 3 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 4 | We 've always taught you to give borrowed things back , have n't we ? |
| 5 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 6 | Yes I suppose it 's true that for somebody like me I 've been involved in quite a lot of different groups over over the years and the quarry men 's support group is it 's difficult to put in words really er exactly how it 's erm you know I think it 's very easy f for groups to become sort of s set really and er well I 've always wanted it to involve everybody and I think it does that in a way it sort of er it 's quite special to all of us in in a funny sort of way it 's er you know we feel quite committed . |
| 7 | ‘ Now it may look like I 'm just messing around with cars , but my job as a Kwik-Fit fitter means I 've always got plenty to do . ’ |
| 8 | You 've always got something to say . |
| 9 | Dorcas , you 've always got something to write with , have n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | Constance , by contrast , had always had someone to talk to : brothers and sisters and a mother . |
| 11 | I had always had someone to go round with , while in Europe , or in America ; and good company , any company , can make an enormous difference to one 's perception of whatever one happens to be perceiving . |
| 12 | The very reason she had always forbidden him to bring a refrigerator into the house was this fear that , because she was old and no longer so quick of eye and nimble of hand and foot , it might defeat her . |
| 13 | He held him firmly , as his parents had always told him to do , and after a battle of wills , staring at him all the time , the leprechaun began to weaken . |
| 14 | That 's what Bartholomew Burghgesh had always told him to do . |
| 15 | But his social position had always required him to keep up appearances , and especially now that he was court kammermusicus he and his wife expected to dress well , entertain their friends , keep a carriage , and domestic help . |
| 16 | Many announcements made by the Home Secretary are moving in the way that I have always wanted it to move , and I believe that er , in Wiltshire this will have a very positive effect . |
| 17 | Though this may sound childish — and I was in fact childish in many ways , as young women are who have never had to shift for themselves but have always had someone to stand between them and the world — it did , in fact , help me to behave better to Nonni , who was not stupid at all in matters of feeling , and easy to hurt . |