Example sentences of "as [pron] always [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suitable scenes of red-faced hilarity would occur back at the office as someone always tipped off the entire staff to be ready at the front door . |
| 2 | Arabella drove through the archway , revving the engine far too high , as she always did in the lower gears . |
| 3 | As I da da , as Dave says as an overall percentage or to do it as we always do as a , as a termly figure . |
| 4 | As Fidelma got Agatha into bed , they looked at each other with honesty as they always did in the end . |
| 5 | GREY November or no , Festival fever is here again , with its prospects for of makin' whoopee and temperatures rising as they always do with the actual Festival opening . |
| 6 | Dusk was falling swiftly , as it always does in the tropics , and the silence that had so impressed me by daylight suddenly became noisy with the night life of the jungly-type trees in the mountains behind-the bull frogs , strange bird cries , the never-ending background of the cicadas . |
| 7 | Hazel himself paused in the mouth of the hole , as he always had behind the bramble curtain at home , and looked out across the valley . |
| 8 | He paused as he always did at the foot of the stairs , his left hand holding the lamp , his right hand resting on the banisters . |
| 9 | He felt as he always did on the moor , and especially on this spot and on Big Allen , peaceful , without care , without self almost , at one with nature and the past , and as if nothing that happened down there could hurt or vex him any more . |
| 10 | Gerald was talking very fast and fluently , as he always did on the subject of money , but Charles reckoned he had got the gist . |
| 11 | He went to bed to dream uneasily , and woke early as he always did in the early stages of a case before he had got the machine working properly . |
| 12 | As she heard him come back she refrained from looking out of her window , nor did she go down to the corridor outside his room when , a little later , she heard him groaning as he always did in the grip of a nightmare . |