Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [普段から]

It was bad enough that he usually came to work late, but coming in drunk was the last straw, and I'm going to have to let him go.

When I was in middle school, I had a friend in the track club who normally studied 3 hours a day. He didn't speed up the pace before tests. On the contrary, he didn't have any club activities and so had lot of free time, so before the test we would go to his house and play video games every day. If we hadn't done that, I would have gotten better grades too.