Example sentences of "but [pers pn] usually [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Publication tended to be erratic and material often hard to come by but I usually managed to get three or four copies to press every year . |
| 2 | But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day . |
| 3 | But she usually did turn up . |
| 4 | She knew she was back quite early , but they usually came when she called , knowing she would have brought something special for each of them . |
| 5 | The children could take early dinner , but they usually preferred to eat with us in one of the dining rooms . |
| 6 | He might be a man with a wife in absentia , but he usually directed his charismatic charm towards ladies who , once again , he rightly suspected , knew their way about . |
| 7 | Occasionally he retaliated with his own efforts about the relative sweetness of something his guest had brought , but he usually said it in an unconvinced , muddled way . |
| 8 | But he usually travelled the stallion for three month . |
| 9 | He could have lied , but he usually found himself speaking the truth to Mrs Lorimer ; it was another reason for moving out . |
| 10 | " Artisan " could embrace many independent craftsmen trading in their own product from their own shops , but it usually covered as well those skilled manufacturers dependent on work put out by merchant capitalists and wage-earning journeymen on employers ' premises . |