Example sentences of "[subord] i usually " in BNC.
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| 1 | where I usually go so |
| 2 | I only claim six night visits a week , although I usually do 60 . |
| 3 | Joanna , 18 , schoolgirl ( left ) : ‘ This dress is shorter and tighter than I usually wear . ’ |
| 4 | Claytons are my favourites but I ca n't find them that often so I usually have to go with the Tortex . |
| 5 | ‘ Bryan has a pedal board , but because he 's trying to concentrate on singing and leading the band he ca n't be standing there trying to switch his pedals all night , so I usually run them from the side . ’ |
| 6 | Being an avid reader and buyer for years , I have come to recognise ‘ shop numbers ’ and the ‘ mini dealers ’ , so I usually ignore these ads ! |
| 7 | My make-up artist and stylist are very good so I usually listen to them unless it is something that I really do n't like . |
| 8 | I 've taken two at once and speed ( amphetamines ) at the same time but I 'm not silly so I usually only take one . ’ |
| 9 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 10 | I do n't know about these , this person you 're thinking of but er a very common reaction , I certainly have this from time to time , it really does irritate my wife cos I usually wake her up , is you know , you 're just going off to sleep and you suddenly kind of feel you 're falling , does , does that happen ? |
| 11 | I 'm going to the hairdressers , cos I usually go today do n't I ? |
| 12 | ‘ That 's because I usually cut it myself , ’ grinned Yurk , ‘ and I 'm a ballet dancer , not a hairdresser . ’ |
| 13 | That 's useful to know because I usually like to get up rather late . |
| 14 | My Director-General asked me to come along because I usually handle the lower-level liaison with Number 10 . |
| 15 | Well I 'll be done because I usually go for the paper Rose , quite often Harvey 's said she 's coming out along the High Street five past at five past eight on a Monday morning . |
| 16 | One might , as I usually do with one of his novels , quarrel mildly about his formal devices ; but that would be an irrelevant vanity . |
| 17 | I opted for the neckband , as I usually do , because I like to do these double , so if the front bands go on first I have to do two buttonholes on the double fabric of the neckband . |
| 18 | I used pure watercolour at the beginning and although I loved its luminosity , I found that as I usually paint in short stabs rather than broad washes , the thinking time that pure watercolour demands was not ideal for me . |
| 19 | Calming myself I took it page by page , instead of going straight to the Rrap as I usually do . |
| 20 | I remember how , when I was a naughty boy as I usually was , there being no corporal punishment , I was led about on a bit of string by my Headmaster , and one day when I was being reprimanded I laughed in the Headmaster 's face — I have always been defiant to all who tried to control me . |
| 21 | No , I 'm going to interrupt you as I usually do . |
| 22 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 23 | I begin , as I usually do . |
| 24 | ‘ I ought to have found this out before , especially as I usually know everything that goes on in this village , but they 've managed to keep it secret . |
| 25 | I must early have realized that it was to be a regular correspondence , for I kept her letters , though I usually destroy letters as soon as I have answered them . |