Example sentences of "she always did " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ He gave a sob , ‘ and she went rattling down the stairs to her room the way she always did and then I heard that awful sort of slither and Bunty 's scream … ’ |
| 2 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 3 | He heard her sigh deeply , the way she always did when he let her down in some way . |
| 4 | Nanny huffed the way she always did when she was annoyed at something . |
| 5 | Trotter had raised her voice as she always did speaking to the old man . |
| 6 | When he asked , what did she mean , ‘ taunting ’ , she resorted , as she always did when they argued , to silence . |
| 7 | She always did bring the water eventually , and to her cronies Mairi sometimes admitted she was glad to see the back of her for a few hours ; but that never weakened her tongue . |
| 8 | Luch considered , as she always did , and slowly nodded . |
| 9 | She always did that after a row . |
| 10 | She became assertive-in-spite-of-herself , and marching rapidly from one end of the kitchen to the other , which she always did when entrusting him with a home truth , said , ‘ It 's not , Henry . |
| 11 | She stood in the doorway with her hand on her hip as she always did when she was angry . |
| 12 | She stood in the doorway with her hand on her hip as she always did when she was angry . |
| 13 | She always did . |
| 14 | I just wanted her to take me back , to talk to me as she always did . |
| 15 | Right now he was groping Joanna who had taken her top off , as she always did on these occasions . |
| 16 | Then Mum changed her tone , as she always did when she wanted to wheedle something out of somebody . |
| 17 | She put her points over to the juniors as well as she always did to everyone else , with a wonderful mix of candour , directness , understanding and humour — and always with a twinkle in the eye . |
| 18 | She always did . |
| 19 | Today she closed the door quietly behind her , and tiptoed over to the polished wooden closet , as she always did , to look at her mother 's dresses . |
| 20 | She always did . " |
| 21 | " But where else ? " she wailed , humorously , as she always did , when he was surprised by what to her was obvious . |
| 22 | She spent a good deal — she always did that . |
| 23 | Anna decided that she must not profit by it in any way and consulted Constanza — she always did : You are my chief heir and it will affect you — Constanza told her to go ahead . |
| 24 | She always did think Jeremy was all right-once you got to know him . |
| 25 | Carla heard Luke come into the house , and went to meet him , just as she always did . |
| 26 | Afterwards she repented it bitterly , but she was hopeless at apologizing : instead of retracting her feelings , what she always did was to say that she was sorry for expressing them , a kind of amends that costs nothing and carries the built-in rebuke that the other person is unable to bear the truth . |
| 27 | She made up her mind quickly , the way she always did . |
| 28 | Eventually he pushed his hand inside her brassiere and began kneading one of her breasts , but instead of responding she lay motionless and waited as she always did ; gradually the movements of his hand grew slower , the rhythm of his breathing more regular , and when at last he lay still she disentangled his hand from her twisted clothing and slipped out from underneath him . |
| 29 | She always did , but it was not a process that could be hurried or engineered . |
| 30 | Their mother seemed to rally as she always did for her children but no matter how she tried to conceal it , it was clear to all of them that she was near the end of her strength . |