Example sentences of "have always [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another added : ‘ Now what the politicians have always called for has happened , we must rise to the occasion . ’ |
| 2 | In reality , Scotland 's premier stadium-fillers have always striven for scale on a windswept , neo-Celtic level ; grand dreams , grander schemes , the proverbial men of the people reaching for the impossible . |
| 3 | I know that I 'm being unfair to you and to Virginia , but what I feel for you — what I have always felt for you — has made a weakling of me . " |
| 4 | They explain that they have always fended for themselves because of being at work , but when it comes to going home the difficulties begin . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We have always cared for the countryside . |
| 7 | ‘ We have always stood for service . |
| 8 | As part of the audience you are as much a part of the entertainment as the performance itself , and this is something that dramatists are aware of and have always written for . |
| 9 | But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men , and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 10 | PETER : What we 've discovered this week is the old instinct the Tories have always had for self preservation , the leadership ordained unity and low and behold there was unity . |
| 11 | These procedures are not without academic credentials ( Haynes 1980 : 102 — 7 ) , and describe the way most organisations have always behaved for most of the time . |
| 12 | Mr Beecham 's voice was stiff now as he replied , ‘ We have always acted for the house and I shall be happy to continue doing so . |
| 13 | We have always fought for all the people employed in British agriculture , whatever their status . |
| 14 | This is the Celtic family I have always longed for , complete with live fires , family feuds , squirming freckle-nosed children a-playing in the next room , suggestive sighing and eyeing between the sisters , the indisputable unity created by the sick mother/grandmother in hospital , the indisputable union of songs you always know whether you want to remember them or not . |
| 15 | Students have always looked for vacation work . |