Example sentences of "but [pers pn] usually [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norma grows chrysanths and , but she usually knows the names of all of them . |
| 2 | Erm now and again he practises but he usually tries to do it when I 'm not here but erm not |
| 3 | Mr Barry Engel says that the Isle of Man 's liberal tax structure can be used to save more money , but he usually counsels against it , to avoid arousing the curiosity of the American taxman . |
| 4 | I have n't seen him for a day or two , ’ said the girl , ‘ but he usually comes in about now . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ … the biogeographer may study the same phenomena as the ecologist , but he usually places as much emphasis on the distributional aspects as on the environmental relationships in this study . |
| 6 | One day there will be a serious industrial accident ; there are occasional near misses and worse ; but it usually takes a good measure of folly , inattention and misfortune to overwhelm good plant and a safe system . |
| 7 | Many beautiful animal portraits have been submitted over the months of the competition , but it usually takes that special ‘ something ’ to create the magic of a prize-winning photograph — perhaps a bird captured in mid-flight , or the moment of sheer wonder on a child 's face as it encounters one of the several animal species now allowed to roam freely in the zoo grounds . |
| 8 | It can take effect immediately , but it usually takes twenty minutes or so for the full effects to be felt . |
| 9 | Cultures can of course be changed but it usually takes longer than the organisation is prepared to wait . |
| 10 | All this is natural transformation , but it usually takes seasons before the consequences of these changes become apparent . |
| 11 | Preventing own goals is a prudent tactic , but it usually takes more to win . |
| 12 | ‘ It is n't impossible for love not to hurt but it usually does at some point , ’ she said with a sigh . |
| 13 | Most drawing packages offer you an alignment tool but it usually does n't solve the problem of spacing a set of objects evenly . |
| 14 | We all call him Mr Groovy — which he is n't , but it usually gets a laugh . |
| 15 | ‘ They say the kids are missing the dog , but it usually coincides with the July holidays and we 've found the family were away in Spain . |
| 16 | But it usually works . ’ |
| 17 | But it usually works out . ’ |
| 18 | It is not easy to find a general definition of the normal meaning of irony , but it usually stands for a process by which the content of a statement is qualified either by the reader 's attribution of a contrary intention to the author , or by the reader 's awareness of factors that are in conflict in one way or another with what is being said . |
| 19 | A rumtopf is the same sort of thing , in other words an earthenware container , but it usually has a lid on , and its purpose is to preserve soft fruits in alcohol . |