Example sentences of "it always did " in BNC.
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| 1 | His heart sank the way it always did when she left him . |
| 2 | It fell to the Prince , as it always did , to give his Secretary 's most urgent preoccupation pause . |
| 3 | It followed the track it had followed for so many years , awakened the parties to rage , apathy and contempt in precisely the usual places and ended , as it always did , in a drawn game . |
| 4 | My children would fill up my glass with indecent haste so that they could watch a white admiral butterfly settle on the rim , which it always did . |
| 5 | Fascination with the older girls won just as it always did and she crossed the landing , an expanse of lino dotted with what her mother referred to as ‘ slip mats ’ , pushed open the door and went in . |
| 6 | But it felt safe and familiar as it always did , with the sounds of chewing and the smell of sweat and cow-dung and half-eaten hay . |
| 7 | He hesitated , his anger subsiding quickly as it always did , and leaving him feeling exhausted . |
| 8 | It always did . |
| 9 | Mario , however , had a contract with Chapman and that contract had stipulated , as at Mario 's insistence it always did , that he was to be the team 's Number One driver . |
| 10 | The pine wood looked just the same as ever , it always did , it was always dark and dense with very narrow passages through it that would surely allow nothing bigger than a fox to weave its way through . |
| 11 | I looked up at Granny 's picture and saw the black crepe paper had slipped again — but then it always did when the door was slammed . |
| 12 | It was going like the wind , as it always did , and in seconds it had passed the box exactly on time , rushing on to Bradley Fold No 3 signal . |
| 13 | The misplaced appearance of the Teardrops ' ‘ Reward ’ comes across here like an acid-crazed drunk gate-crashing a fashion show ( but then it always did ) . |
| 14 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 15 | The real power in Aquitaine , in the sense of the power to appoint men or collect and transfer money , lay , of course , with Henry — as it always did when he was on the Continent and chose to exercise it . |
| 16 | For most of them sex happens in the same places it always did . |
| 17 | Intrigued , and a little afraid of the gyrating shadows that loomed like feathery figures on the walls beside them , the boy kept close to the bent figure , curiosity alive in him , and a strange excitement driving him on as it always did when he was with the old man . |
| 18 | It always did . |
| 19 | But the horror was only doing to him what it always did . |
| 20 | And when she saw the family cottage , it seemed to be part of her body and life , as it always did . |
| 21 | But her pulses had started their racing , her heart its pounding at the first sight of him , her stomach lurching , as it always did , clean over and then , for hours afterwards , refusing to be still . |
| 22 | It suited her as well as it always did , the creamy-white silk throwing her olive skin into greater contrast against her thick raven hair and dark Mediterranean eyes . |
| 23 | It always did . |
| 24 | She threw up until the nausea passed , just as it always did if she drank alcohol , but now it was almost as if her body already knew alcohol was bad for the tiny life growing inside her . |
| 25 | ‘ But perhaps you 're in danger of forgetting that it always did , and always will , take two to tango . ’ |
| 26 | Nikos 's mind began automatically to turn over the possibilities ; as it always did . |
| 27 | It looks as quiet and peaceful as it always did . |
| 28 | We steered away from neutrality and headed for the magnificence of the Alps in the moonlight ; I always wondered if the Stirling would clear the Matterhorn and it always did with plenty to spare . |
| 29 | As always , he gave off an impression of coiled masculine energy and , as it always did whenever she saw him , Ashley 's heartbeat quickened . |
| 30 | It tinkled furiously , as it always did when he became agitated for any reason . |