Example sentences of "as [pron] always did [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right now he was groping Joanna who had taken her top off , as she always did on these occasions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Arabella drove through the archway , revving the engine far too high , as she always did in the lower gears . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As Fidelma got Agatha into bed , they looked at each other with honesty as they always did in the end . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | Burton dug into himself and , as he always did with work he reverenced , laid all he had at the service of the part . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Gerald was talking very fast and fluently , as he always did on the subject of money , but Charles reckoned he had got the gist . |
| 13 | It was probably true , but she responded scornfully , just as he always did to her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He looked as amazing as he always did in his stage costume , twice the size he was on stage , twice as powerful . |