Example sentences of "he [verb] always [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sard Harker cherishes the vision of the flower-encompassed house for ten years before , in 1897 , he revisits it , to find it empty and shut up , and resolves to forget the distant figure of the girl he has always hoped to find . |
| 2 | A butterfly he has always wanted to catch . |
| 3 | Although having trained as a general physiotherapist he has always wanted to specialise in sports injuries . |
| 4 | In the past he has always refused to deny the relationship ‘ on the record ’ and Camilla has also maintained a dignified silence . |
| 5 | Edward Stratton had always been interested in machinery , or ‘ working parts ’ as he 'd always liked to think of things . |
| 6 | Enthusiastically he told me that he 'd always wanted to visit Morocco , live there even , and that our hashish was the best of all . |
| 7 | He said he 'd always wanted to see St Matthew 's . ’ |
| 8 | He said he 'd always wanted to meet you , so we brought them all over . ’ |
| 9 | But he 'd always refused to sell any of his antiques . |
| 10 | It was her dad 's favourite piece that he 'd always refused to sell and which had had pride of place on top of the mantelpiece in the parlour . |
| 11 | Come hell or high water , he 'd always managed to get his mother a present and to send her some flowers and a card . |
| 12 | There was that very nice place in Keswick where he 'd always longed to take a smart woman to stay a day or two . |
| 13 | Years afterwards , in fact decades afterwards , when Nietzsche himself was no longer available for comment , his sister repeatedly asserted that as a young professor he had always intended to produce a " large " book on Greece , not one dealing with , or centred on , a single topic , but a book that would deal comprehensively with various aspects of Greek civilization . |
| 14 | When Ma died , he had always planned to break away completely , give up this life and build a new one . |
| 15 | That 's what he had always wanted to do , and Klepner was his advance guard . |
| 16 | He had always wanted to do something creative , but had so far failed to find a suitable medium — then he discovered photography . |
| 17 | Walsh was ecstatic : now the paper was looking far beyond the Right-On supporters ' group and being told what he had always wanted to believe — there was a large group of solid working-class people fed up with the frivolity in the existing tabloids . |
| 18 | Two of them — Iris Murdoch and William Golding — are said to have composed a good deal of fiction before succeeding at last with a publisher ; succeeding , as Golding once remarked , not because he had tried to please but because for once he stopped trying and wrote the book he had always wanted to write . |
| 19 | He had always preferred to leave that to Nik Powell , or the man who had joined Virgin as financial director on Powell 's departure , Terry Baughan . |
| 20 | Although he publicly renounced Remy and repealed the law making Jamel his natural successor , he had always refused to allow Ngune 's men to touch them . |
| 21 | But he had always failed to impress the grown-ups in Never Never Land : the ones who handed out the end-of-term prizes , and the folk who decided which movies were important and meaningful , as opposed to escapist fun for all the family . |
| 22 | He had always managed to look smooth and sophisticated without trying and tonight was no exception . |
| 23 | But he had always chosen to stand back ; to be busy . |
| 24 | It was something he had always longed to explore . |
| 25 | Lately he had always seemed to start the day with a broken window-pane , and then suddenly one morning the front of his shop was boarded up and we never saw Mr Schultz again . |
| 26 | Oh why is it every time I sit somewhere he 's always got to sit somewhere near me . |
| 27 | He 's always had to keep that bloody thing . |
| 28 | He 's always had to find a new friend , he do n't trust me . |
| 29 | He 's always had to find a new friend , he do n't trust me . |