Example sentences of "as [pron] always [verb] [prep] " 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 | Pei 's generosity with space , the fact that one never feels oppressed by ceilings ( as I always do at Lasdun 's National Theatre ) , reveals him as a distinctive architectural sculptor . |
| 3 | I 'm wearing a denim waistcoat , cheesecloth shirt and baggy denim jeans , and I 'm smiling fit to burst , as I always seem to be in photographs . |
| 4 | All the effects work well , although I think ( as I always seem to these days ) that the distortion sounds , while varied , could be less processed . |
| 5 | But I wriggled my way in … as I always seem to . ’ |
| 6 | Right now he was groping Joanna who had taken her top off , as she always did on these occasions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Arabella drove through the archway , revving the engine far too high , as she always did in the lower gears . |
| 10 | Over the years royal staff and her friends have been puzzled by Diana 's appetite , particularly as she always appeared to be so slim . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I remember Christmas Eve 1930 , when we went as we always did on that day to the High Street to look at the lighted shops , seeing a little girl in a tattered dress and with bare feet , her nose pressed at the toy-shop window . |
| 13 | And now finally — as we always seem to be saying at the conclusion of our news bulletins — perhaps I can be allowed one or two serious observations . |
| 14 | As Fidelma got Agatha into bed , they looked at each other with honesty as they always did in the end . |
| 15 | The words of the Spell picked just that moment to surface from the depths of his mind , as they always did in time of crisis . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I fished on , more as an act of defiance than in the hope of catching anything ; and just as I was about to surrender a fish rose , as they always do in these circumstances , far beyond my reach . |
| 18 | So loyalty must be reciprocated , as it always deserves to be . |
| 19 | As cash flow has suffered , so the ratio has risen again , as it always does during recessions for these industries , which include transport , construction , communication and the manufacturing of durable goods . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
| 22 | At the highest levels of attainment in developed societies , like postgraduate research fellowships , or master classes in the arts , this is exactly what does happen — just as it always has with farmers , hunters , mothers , shamans , poets , and makers of things tangible or mental . |
| 23 | He drove as he always drove in those days , well , but far too fast . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Burton dug into himself and , as he always did with work he reverenced , laid all he had at the service of the part . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 29 | Gerald was talking very fast and fluently , as he always did on the subject of money , but Charles reckoned he had got the gist . |
| 30 | It was probably true , but she responded scornfully , just as he always did to her . |