Example sentences of "have always [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Diana has always said to her friends throughout her royal career , ‘ I will never become Queen ’ . ’ |
| 2 | In political terms , the relationship between the family and the state has always included at its core both the right of the family to raise children as it sees fit , and the corresponding right of the state to intervene if the family 's care or control falls short of what the state requires . |
| 3 | It has always belonged to my people . |
| 4 | The following quotation has always stuck in my mind : ‘ In life the firmest friend , the first to welcome , foremost to defend . ’ |
| 5 | I remember an all-black room I saw years ago which has always stuck in my mind : black velvet walls , black carpet , ebony table and chairs , black lacquer side table . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've seen hundreds of corpses since then but that sight has always stuck in my mind . ’ |
| 7 | A child who has always looked after his own asthma is less likely to rebel later and discard inhalers or start smoking . |
| 8 | She , who 'd always stood on her own feet , fought her own battles . |
| 9 | When my father died there were a lot of quarrels between my mother and I. I 'd always lived with my father , so I did n't know her , or how she wanted me to be . |
| 10 | I 've always suffered with my sinuses . |
| 11 | I began to feel , as I had always felt with my aunts , that personal affairs were unimportant : we were only sticks in the great river of history that was sweeping us along . |
| 12 | That night , Jessica Roberts found the ritual element she had always accepted in her high home life hard to bear . |
| 13 | Sarah had told her that John had always argued with his father and defied him , and she wondered why he could ever have behaved like that with this gentle man . |
| 14 | He had always pretended to his employer that he did n't . |
| 15 | Dyarchy had always depended for its successful working on the exercise of tactful influence by the British governor and his officials , who had their reputations invested in preventing the resignations of their Indian colleagues ; but Irwin 's formulation took the controlling role allotted to influence much further . |
| 16 | ‘ The picture that has emerged is one of Mr Berry continuing to run Blue Arrow as he had always done despite its transformation to a very substantial international public company . |
| 17 | Jenny had always lived with her parents , and even at the age of twenty-five , she was still tied to the apron strings . |
| 18 | Remy Mobuto had always lived in his brother 's shadow . |
| 19 | Even before this point Highlander had always insisted on its workshops being de-segregated , though it was actually illegal to have such gatherings under the laws of the state . |
| 20 | He clutched onto Gillian 's hand with alarming gratitude , as if previously girls had always insisted on his wearing oven-gloves . |
| 21 | She had always thought of her father as attractive , even handsome , though she knew not everyone did . |
| 22 | Lifelong bogeys became jokes ; the long tunnel of what had always seemed to her exaggerated behaviour and elaborate unorthodoxy had a light at the end of it , the light of a life with Peter . |
| 23 | Because the laws of war derive to a large extent from standards which have developed within states , and because they have always depended for their enforcement largely on national legal systems , court decisions have been a very important source of the laws of war . |
| 24 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 25 | Static in my life , I have always travelled in my imagination . |
| 26 | It is possible for parents to go on behaving as they have always done towards their children , without making adjustments as they are needed . |
| 27 | I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs . |
| 28 | Surely the laity have always worked with their priests in various capacities ? |
| 29 | I have always shared with my hon. Friend a belief in the importance of manufacturing industry , particularly the motor car industry . |
| 30 | As in so many debates on the nature and location of power in Britain it is not possible to come to a firm and lasting conclusion as to the nature of prime ministerial power relative to the position of the cabinet since Prime Ministers have always differed in their degree of command of the cabinet . |