Example sentences of "i usually " in BNC.
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| 1 | I usually picked up my money on Friday evening so I was running a little short . |
| 2 | I usually make a tape hood over the static vents to allow them to breathe without letting water droplets get into the tubes . |
| 3 | One might , as I usually do with one of his novels , quarrel mildly about his formal devices ; but that would be an irrelevant vanity . |
| 4 | As Sabra , a woman in her forties , told me ‘ If I go out I usually do have my Dupatta round me , but at work I ca n't wear it in case it gets caught up in the machines , so I just wear a scarf on my head when I leave the house — something is needed to save one 's Izzat ’ . |
| 5 | If the weather 's all right and it 's not raining or nothing , I usually go to the garden to help Mr Frost . |
| 6 | I usually make her coffee , and if she runs out of fags or needs summat from the shops , I go for her . |
| 7 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 8 | In fact I usually take things easy until I have dinner at seven with the Smiths . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's because I usually cut it myself , ’ grinned Yurk , ‘ and I 'm a ballet dancer , not a hairdresser . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't stick to one particular brand but I would never be without my face powder and I usually go for the heavy Sixties-style eye make-up — lots of black kohl pencil and mascara . |
| 11 | Joanna , 18 , schoolgirl ( left ) : ‘ This dress is shorter and tighter than I usually wear . ’ |
| 12 | I usually steer a middle course which avoids both waste and effort . |
| 13 | I usually get rid of my men after 2 ½ years . |
| 14 | I was booing and hissing the bad guys with the best of them , and I usually hate audience participation . |
| 15 | Nowadays , I usually use the polished variety . |
| 16 | I usually allow about eight mouthfuls per person for catering . |
| 17 | I usually leave the cocktail sticks to make it easier for people to pick the devils up when they are hot . |
| 18 | She liked going for slow , rather stately walks in the summer evenings when the shop was closed and the children in bed , and I usually escorted her . |
| 19 | ‘ I paint in a room with good north light , and I usually try and get the head outline , eyes and nose right first . |
| 20 | I do n't like leaving her on her own too long ( I usually have to be away for about eight hours ) . |
| 21 | I usually take something off the peg , hope that it fits , take it home and if it does n't , try taking it back . |
| 22 | Because the first one was quite small I did not give it the full ‘ advance ’ treatment that I usually do . |
| 23 | ‘ I usually travel with an assistant from my management company and she does the same so we look a fine pair , both of us sitting there with dozens of jars in front of us , but it does the trick ; it takes my mind off the fact that we are 30,000 feet in the air at the time . |
| 24 | Then , once I am at home , I usually think the whole of it was splendid , and hate having to settle down to the monotonous , lonely life of a writer . |
| 25 | I usually bump into him every so often on the stairs , in one of the upstairs rooms or in the garden , but I have not seen him in some time . |
| 26 | And to be honest , for questions like this , I usually have to refer to a book for an answer ! |
| 27 | They 're told that the amount of medicine they take us under their control and I usually suggest they experiment after two or three days with either increasing the amount of the dose e.g. two squirts instead of one or taking the remedy twice a day . |
| 28 | It can therefore vary from every few minutes to once a year but I usually begin with once a day . |
| 29 | Anyway when I approach a thirty mile an hour bend I usually go round at sixty thus going round on two wheels — halving the wear on the tyres . |
| 30 | If I 've a complicated feature to write , or a problem to solve , I usually duck out and go for a run . |