Example sentences of "but [pron] usually " in BNC.
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| 31 | They are often strict , but they usually also spoil you . |
| 32 | Rats will live in rabbit burrows but they usually take over one section for themselves and the rabbits leave them in isolation . |
| 33 | From time to time the press carries rumours of such enquiries , but they usually remain rumours unless legal action takes them into the public domain , because the DTI never comments or publishes the findings . |
| 34 | Families which operate in this way might be expected to break up but they usually do not do so . |
| 35 | School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents , but they usually get their own back when the time comes to write the end-of-term reports . |
| 36 | This morning a rat poked his nose in , but they usually seem to prefer the main hold . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | But they usually examine the chief suspect 's clothes . |
| 39 | But they usually have to be covered , which means yet another thing to budget for in a room . |
| 40 | erm so er it 's sometimes possible to borrow from the university but they usually , they usually make it very difficult for one so er oh thanks , erm so erm anyway because with a thing like people 's accounts of dreams you may want to sort of go back and look at them , you know , sort of how people have expressed them in their own words , they may have er you know produced some nice interesting quotes or something like that |
| 41 | ‘ They stay with a friend for two or three weeks but they usually fall out and the ex-offender becomes homeless . ’ |
| 42 | yeah , but they usually get , well quite a good duty bedroom |
| 43 | But they usually wear a vest with it and . |
| 44 | Well the camp 's July , yes , but they usually want the money in before . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | ‘ … 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 . |
| 48 | I have n't seen him for a day or two , ’ said the girl , ‘ but he usually comes in about now . ’ |
| 49 | But he usually travelled the stallion for three month . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | He could have lied , but he usually found himself speaking the truth to Mrs Lorimer ; it was another reason for moving out . |
| 52 | Erm now and again he practises but he usually tries to do it when I 'm not here but erm not |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | But it usually works . ’ |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | We all call him Mr Groovy — which he is n't , but it usually gets a laugh . |
| 58 | ‘ It is n't impossible for love not to hurt but it usually does at some point , ’ she said with a sigh . |
| 59 | Change is with us constantly ; but it usually is an evolutionary or incremental change which can be anticipated . |
| 60 | It can take effect immediately , but it usually takes twenty minutes or so for the full effects to be felt . |