Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] always [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer has always longed to have a Spitfire and one day Mike Searle , presumably having recovered from the shock of the Jungmann episode ( see the September issue , page 25 ) , pointed out an advertisement in which some Spitfires were for sale at Strathallan in Scotland . |
| 2 | Judi had always tried to rub his nose in parts of his life he just wanted to let lie there and be profitable . |
| 3 | Judi had always tended to know what she was thinking , but now she knew her sister really could read her mind . |
| 4 | Spencer had always appeared to conform , he wore neat clothes and acted the gentleman . |
| 5 | BAIE Scotland has always tried to keep its fees as reasonable as possible , thanks to the generosity of sponsors and tutors . |
| 6 | Maggie had always wanted to drive and passed her test first time . |
| 7 | Karen had always wanted to travel and see the world . |
| 8 | Since having to give-up a dolls-house as a small child to help her mother make ends meet , Rosemary Gardner has always yearned to walk into a little world of her own , now , 40+ years later , she has done just that ! |
| 9 | Kohl had always had to cope with the personal problem of appearing lacklustre and undynamic , and in 1988 even close colleagues doubted whether he could remain as Chancellor for long . |
| 10 | Independence may be a reality in fact if not in name , but it contradicts the dream of a united China that both the Kuomintang and the communists of Beijing hold dear — so dear that China has always threatened to use force if Taiwan declared independence . |
| 11 | MARJE Proops has always refused to reveal her exact age but she married husband Sidney on November 21 , 1935 . |
| 12 | A one time marine and lifelong sailor Bob Shepton has always wanted to sail around the world … for three years he 's been planning and preparing for this voyage … |
| 13 | Belinda 's father had of necessity bought a rather characterless cream brick house in the outer suburb where his hardware shop was located , and Belinda had always wanted to live in one of these gracious old places , which were larger , more urban versions of the old farmhouse near Emerald where she had spent her childhood . |
| 14 | The King of Blefuscu has always wanted to defeat Lilliput in war , and now we hear that he 's prepared a large number of ships , which will attack us very soon . |
| 15 | Noreen has always wanted to drive a big American truck . |
| 16 | Claire had always planned to set up her own practice and she left Coopers in December 1989 , when she was expecting her first child . |
| 17 | Twoflower had always wanted to meet an elf . |
| 18 | Although the USA has always tended to look to education to solve its national problems , education in the UK has traditionally been viewed more as a benefit to the individual . |
| 19 | The Rowlands had always wanted to farm and revelled in the return to a rural community in 1966 after a sojourn in suburban England , where , Gareth says incredulously , he had to pay to play rugby . |
| 20 | Though afterwards she was fairly certain that Naylor had always meant to reject her anyway . |
| 21 | Positive thinking is another cause Pearce has always tried to promote . |
| 22 | IAAF president Primo Nebiolo has always refused to accept any decision taken by the American courts and that was still their stance last night . |
| 23 | Harriet had always tended to feel compassion towards the underdog . |
| 24 | and he reached a stage of heavy dependence on Lloyd George ; Birkenhead found it more congenial to work with men of ideas like Churchill than with the squires who would fill out a Unionist ministry ; Balfour had always striven to practise government by agreement . |
| 25 | I remembered that Charlie had always wanted to know how prices in Chelsea compared with those in Whitechapel , so I decided to find out for him . |