Example sentences of "as [pers pn] always [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And God was very good to me there , I was n't the brightest in the year and I had to work very hard , but God always was with me as I always passed my exams much to my surprise . |
| 2 | First the making of the glass , as I always planned , he wrote . |
| 3 | Thee and thou were s a term implied intimacy and affection and closeness the thee and thou as far as I always understood it . |
| 4 | ‘ But if I am to achieve such merit as wins fame , then my life has not been so unworthy an exchange for hers as I always feared ! ’ |
| 5 | I 'd certainly like to have played one-day cricket , as I always got on with it . |
| 6 | " My dear great-niece , Sara Monroe , will be surprised and perhaps a little chagrined to find that I have not left Moorlake outright to her as I always promised , but when she has met Matthew Preston she will , I know , understand why I have changed my mind . |
| 7 | I stared into the mirror , expecting to see huge marks like red flowers blazing on my mouth where I had been kissed , but I looked just the same as I always did . |
| 8 | I did n't it has to be said win the pools last year as I always put Leeds for a win and Scum for a loss . |
| 9 | ‘ You look much the same as you always looked . ’ |
| 10 | When his mother had told him , as she always told any man interested in Edith , about the bastard child , he had just smiled . |
| 11 | She was wearing a huge orange tee shirt and black leggings and looked exactly as she always looked . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps love conquers everything , ’ Maggie said quietly , feeling his pain as she always seemed to do . |
| 13 | And Megan went , as she always went where Ann led . |
| 14 | She 'd got to paddle her own canoe , as she always had done . |
| 15 | Joanie tagged along with her , as she always had done . |
| 16 | She was , as she always had been , a kind of benign , elder sister . |
| 17 | But she simply ignored him as she always had and began to practise with the yellow-haired vibrancer who 'd been with Jeopardy in Mandru 's salon on the morning Lucien had met the master . |
| 18 | For a moment he entertained the hope that he might be allowed to call her ‘ Mam ’ , the way he used to , or even ‘ Mummy ’ , as she always called herself when speaking to other people . |
| 19 | Trotter had raised her voice as she always did speaking to the old man . |
| 20 | When he asked , what did she mean , ‘ taunting ’ , she resorted , as she always did when they argued , to silence . |
| 21 | Luch considered , as she always did , and slowly nodded . |
| 22 | She stood in the doorway with her hand on her hip as she always did when she was angry . |
| 23 | She stood in the doorway with her hand on her hip as she always did when she was angry . |
| 24 | I just wanted her to take me back , to talk to me as she always did . |
| 25 | Right now he was groping Joanna who had taken her top off , as she always did on these occasions . |
| 26 | Then Mum changed her tone , as she always did when she wanted to wheedle something out of somebody . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | " But where else ? " she wailed , humorously , as she always did , when he was surprised by what to her was obvious . |
| 30 | Carla heard Luke come into the house , and went to meet him , just as she always did . |