Example sentences of "as [pron] always does " in BNC.
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| 1 | She just looked thick , same as she always does . ’ |
| 2 | For instance , everyone makes such a fuss of Elizabeth Taylor when she loses weight , pampering her and commenting on how good she looks , but when she regains it , as she always does , we are told how ugly and inflated she is , and even she does not escape comparison — with Joan Collins . |
| 3 | She had arrived early , as she always does , to practise the dances herself before putting my two left feet through them . |
| 4 | She 'll try to hide it , I know , as she always does . ’ |
| 5 | as she always does . |
| 6 | as she always does , since I said why send money to Great Ormond Street when there was plenty of children locally ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What is objectionable is that when centralisation takes place within a federal framework , as it always does , the result is a complicated , opaque and unwieldy fudge . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , life went on as it always does . |
| 10 | Nevertheless the philosophy of animal welfare by its very nature permits utilising other animals for human purposes , even if this means ( as it always does ) that most of these animals will experience pain , frustration and other harms , and even if it means , as it almost always does , that these animals will have their life terminated prematurely . |
| 11 | Such planning , involving as it always does public action — provision of good educational opportunity , good public housing and health care , competent attention to drug addiction , family counselling , adequate welfare payments — is systemically resisted by the contented electoral majority . |
| 12 | When something goes wrong , as it always does , they are in terrible trouble . |
| 13 | And when it does , as it always does , we are caught unawares and unprepared . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When the fighting gets close and deadly , as it always does , you 'll be glad to have them . |
| 16 | Then war broke out in 1939 and made a difference , as it always does . |
| 17 | He was doing the cake judging for us , as he always does , every year . |
| 18 | As I climbed the stairs my Dad 's voice called out with relief as he always does , ‘ Is that yourself , son ? ’ |
| 19 | And Uncle Pumblechook , thinking of us as he always does , suggested this boy . |
| 20 | He knocked on the door and waited ten minutes ( as he always does ) . |
| 21 | He spoke for the people of Neath and west Glamorgan , as he always does . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend the Member for Newham , South ( Mr. Spearing ) advises me , as he always does , that a Bill amending the treaty will be before the House . |
| 23 | Nearer home , former Olympic coach Gerry Storey topped the poll , as he always does , for Council election at the IABA 's annual convention in Castlebar . |
| 24 | Yes Jane it has , as luck would have it I was late arriving , had to run through the rain , ran into the main stand and by pure accident ran into the Oxford United dressing room and there was Brian Horton , he said ‘ Hallo Mick , hows the poster Mickey ’ as he always does , and in fact he gave me the team news and that is — Ian Walker makes his senior debut tonight with both Alan injured , also two other changes ; Jackson comes in for Gary Smart and one surprising one , Steve McLaren for Mark Steen . |