Example sentences of "as they always [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyone can say they have no quarrel with people so long as they always get their own way . ’ |
| 2 | The argument would run that the appointing authority would have seen the clause ( as they always ask to do ) before making the appointment , would have taken a fee for making the appointment , that the arrangement was therefore a contract incorporating the clause about suitability , and that an aggrieved party could sue for breach of that term of the contract . |
| 3 | anybody they are in the area you know as they always say and ah sorry we need a back door so they say they offer one per door one |
| 4 | It is very dangerous to show a portrait to a sitter before it is finished , as they always want to change something . |
| 5 | Black steam-pipes criss-cross the 1,000 acres as they always have done , hissing here and there through open valves . |
| 6 | Schools ( perhaps excluding the new Technology Colleges ) should be judged according to academic criteria ; and these could be supplied , as they always have been , by the size of the sixth form and the number of entries to universities — that is , by A level results . |
| 7 | In the end , leaders will be supported in the same way as they always have been : by winning people to Christ , who then begin to tithe their income in order to support and set free their leaders for full-time work in the church . |
| 8 | According to market researchers International Data Corp , a survey of 500 major corporate users showed that although 39% will continue to use their mainframes in the same way as they always have , a massive 61% want to downsize . |
| 9 | According to market researchers International Data Corp , a survey of 500 major corporate users showed that although 39% will continue to use their mainframes in the same way as they always have , a massive 61% want to downsize . |
| 10 | And all the time the slang and colloquial idioms of the ordinary English speaker continue to evolve as they always have . |
| 11 | The sacred and profane are therefore being inextricably woven together , as they always have been . |
| 12 | Design and costs conspire to make many working-class ' households huddle as they always have — all together in one room . |
| 13 | But the wives were n't there , though , of course , they were implicated in the result of the ballot in the claim , as they always have been . |
| 14 | The ‘ Nicolson ’ is being dropped , but other than that the books are very much the same as they always have been . |
| 15 | But they are being forced to do it by fragrant Virginia , who 's actually trying to reduce the ability of dentists to perform in the National Health Service as they want to do , and as they always have done . |
| 16 | But Venice is a seaport still , and above all these lesser vessels there still tread through the lagoon , as they always have , big ships out of the oceans . |
| 17 | But pupils kept in touch mapping the ship 's progress , as they always have done , on a world map . |
| 18 | In the end , the answers will come as they always do — from the ground . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Better watch TV HELL which probably charts the history of bad TV decently but doubtless the BBC will bollocks it up as they always do . |
| 22 | But a few survived , as they always do . |
| 23 | Each innovation , shift , or novel project — even the noncontroversial and apparently desirable ones — requires somebody getting behind it and pushing , especially when things get difficult , as they always do when change is involved . |
| 24 | Such hierarchies produced , as they always do , an intense jealousy of status . |
| 25 | No one would call our battered brown book boxes decorative but when the PLANTS appear as they always do that morning of the year , their beauty and colour irradiate all around them . |
| 26 | Similarly , down in the Undercroft , the ladies form the Cathedral brought something extra special to the hospitality , as they always do . |
| 27 | Gareth and Rachel Rowlands ( right ) allow visitors to walk round Brynllyys , their organic farm , freely as they always spend money in their shop . |
| 28 | The Welsh had all vanished into the hills , as they always vanish , and Henry marched his army back through Shrewsbury empty-handed . |
| 29 | Spontaneous as they always seem , these watercolours speak of long contemplation and of profound love and understanding of the Yorkshire fells . |