Example sentences of "she had always [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easier for her than for many , for she had always lived in two kitchens , under the different and Indifferent ministrations of two cooks . |
| 2 | She had always lived in a crowd , other people 's dramas and her own played out through a thin wall for the benefit of anyone who chose to listen . |
| 3 | She had always lived in a town , with a street light shining outside the window , so the first thing she hastened to buy was a chair on which to place a candle , beside her bed . |
| 4 | She had never ridden a horse and , as she had always lived in the city , the opportunity to wander through native bush had never come her way . |
| 5 | She had put them on without thinking , because they were what she had always worn for travelling outside London , but she began to wonder what David 's mother would think of them and to wish that she had put on her good black coat and skirt instead with one of her London hats . |
| 6 | With a nervous swallow he bearded the formidable young lady at the desk at the head of the room : she had always struck him as the sort of librarian who would prefer to see all the desks in her domain empty and all the books permanently under lock and key . |
| 7 | She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart … |
| 8 | Earlier she had always insisted that men and women were the same — all in it together . |
| 9 | She had always insisted that he was n't to meet her , that she might come any time . |
| 10 | She was not frigid , but nor had she ever been a slave to purely carnal temptations ; because she had always placed a higher value on mental and emotional stimulation than on physical . |
| 11 | She had always imagined that an exploding bomb would have made an infernal , ear-splitting racket , but it did n't . |
| 12 | Constance grinned : Ludovico was exactly the way she had always imagined an Italian would be . |
| 13 | Until then she had always imagined him to be somehow insubstantial , a shadow of a man . |
| 14 | It had all been an enjoyable game , and she had always imagined that love would be an enjoyable game as well , except that there was nothing enjoyable about the pain eating away at her . |
| 15 | Her mind was too busy seeing the man who had wearily let her go , not wilfully , as she had always imagined , but finally , for what he thought was her own good . |
| 16 | It was precisely the sort of place where she had always imagined he would live . |
| 17 | She had always imagined Nigel 's home to be large , but this was immense ! |
| 18 | She had always imagined drug-pushing to be a male-dominated business and had been surprised when the prim-looking blonde in a navy blue duffel coat had approached her . |
| 19 | But she did n't respond — at least she did n't do that ! — or only a little bit , only the very smallest bit , because it was so very sweet , so very exciting , so very much what she had always hoped a kiss might be , and if he believed it was what she wanted , why not let him think so ? |
| 20 | She had always liked mountains . |
| 21 | God knew the man had little enough from his family , and she had always liked Edith herself . |
| 22 | But when her heart actually did a little flutter to see that mouth , which she had always liked — despite its owner — turning up in laughter , she half turned from him and started to walk towards the rear entrance of the building . |
| 23 | Again , in October 1281 , Edward I wrote to her , saying that she had always striven to keep the peace between Henry III and Louis , and between Philip III and himself . |
| 24 | She had always kept herself aloof from men , hating their sly looks , their winks and coarse talk . |
| 25 | All these years , she had carried Tyler 's image in her heart , and suddenly there he was , looking at her , startling her , his gaze finding its way into that secret part of her that she had always kept hidden . |
| 26 | Though pleasant and friendly , she had always kept her professional and private lives totally separate , making it quite clear that , for her , business and pleasure did not mix . |
| 27 | It was black-edged and addressed in Ellen 's hand , the very communication she had always dreaded and feared . |
| 28 | And she was bound to confess that the Larks had always made her nervous , that she had always dreaded her visits to their crumbling , chaotic , downright shabby ancestral home , with dogs leaping out at one from every chair and all those things they kept on shooting — pheasant , partridge , grouse , poor little scrawny things — hanging up to rot simply everywhere . |
| 29 | Now he was filling their relationship with a seriousness she had always assumed it could not possibly contain . |
| 30 | She had always assumed that something would happen , sometime , to sweep away her marital comfort . |