Example sentences of "did not usually " in BNC.
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1 | People did not usually describe themselves as servants ( clients did not , nor did government employees ) . |
2 | Our own recording efforts were concentrated on species , and we did not usually attempt to record vegetation . |
3 | As there was no effective treatment , the asylums were more custodial than therapeutic and did not usually cater for investigation and research . |
4 | The compensatory factor was that old-school professionals did not usually have their own transport and many a signature was cajoled out of them on their way to nearest railway station or tram or bus stop . |
5 | When task allocation was a common way of organising care , a nurse did not usually progress from one task to another until the sister judged that she was competent to do so . |
6 | ‘ Servant ’ seemed too coarse a word for such a refined creature and indeed she made it plain that she did not usually inhabit a servants ' hall . |
7 | If most experiences were nonveridical — or , to put it another way , if seeing did not usually justify believing — we probably would not survive for long . |
8 | In the sixteenth century the word ‘ empire ’ did not usually refer to a state with transoceanic possessions of this sort . |
9 | This did not usually involve medication as the following interviewee 's experience of Detention Centre illustrates : |
10 | If battles , in themselves , did not usually lead to the achievements of such goals , what would ? |
11 | It did not usually occur to the client that DPR might be prospering from his losses . |
12 | ( While the Factory Acts did not usually greatly affect book-printing , it sometimes happened with legal or government work that compositors had to work longer hours than normal to meet deadlines . ) |
13 | Mary did not like her , but that was not surprising , because she did not usually like people . |
14 | Intercourse did not usually take place until marriage was promised , and marriage failed to take place usually because of job difficulties on the part of the man . |
15 | By the 1890s the wives of skilled men did not usually work , for the ability to keep a wife had become a measure of working class male respectability . |
16 | Mr Utterson did not usually ask anyone for advice . |
17 | She wanted to open the windows in the bedrooms , which she did not usually do , and opened their bedroom door . |
18 | Neither did the very many railwaymen who were concerned with passengers , nor , since the canal companies did not usually operate as carriers , did they employ anything like the same number of men in handling freight . |
19 | ‘ My husband did not usually discuss the negotiations for Ruggiero Miletti 's release with me , but on one occasion about a month ago , while we were having dinner … . ’ |
20 | Apart from the Quakers , and sometimes the Roman Catholics , the Old Dissenting sects did not usually object to the baptism , marriage and burial services of the Established Church and therefore Dissenters appear in Church of England registers like anyone else . |
21 | It is perhaps worth making the point ( for readers who are just beginning their enquiries into the history of this period ) that a lord did not usually own all the land on his manor but had certain defined rights , which differed from place to place and even between neighbouring settlements . |
22 | They did n't usually speak to her , only about her . |
23 | The man did n't usually comment , but this time , after a pause , pouring himself another cup , he said : |
24 | He looked tired , which he did n't usually do . |
25 | It did n't usually matter because there was always the alternative of going back to where we started and tighten the game up ’ . |
26 | For one thing , the men she went with did n't usually have bathrooms with bidets , or loo seats in real Earth wood . |
27 | It was an option she did n't usually have , kissing a gorgeous man on board her own ship . |
28 | I did n't usually get to bed until 11 or 12 pm . |
29 | You often had to wait here while the Edinburgh trains came and went , but the delay did n't usually last this long . |
30 | Although she was a widow , she did n't usually wear black . |