Example sentences of "they [verb] usually [verb] " in BNC.

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1	I mean you go to other towns , they they might not know Nottingham , but they 've usually heard of .
2	The food taking too long , we 'll ring them up tomorrow , but historically , we 've found that by tonight , they 've usually sorted the problem out .
3	They 've usually got a very good selection . ’
4	Well they 've usually got er lots of clothes on have n't they ?
5	Well , they 've usually got , you know , two ears , a couple of eyes
6	‘ If we 've been doing lessons all morning , they 've usually had enough by the afternoon , so we 'll sing some songs together or I 'll tell them a story .
7	Clinicians , however , have long been aware that the opposite can also be found : an excessive tendency to divergent thinking — though they have usually called it something else — which the person has difficulty in translating into focused thought .
8	They have usually relied on the grossness of the physical threat , rather than its certainty , to do the work .
9	Of course , by the time someone comes to see me they have usually made up their mind that hypnosis will be beneficial for them and so this is not a situation I encounter very often .
10	They are quite rightly upset and offended as they have usually made their own decisions and are going through with them .
11	They have usually planned their kidnap to the very last detail .
12	They have usually taken part in a preparatory programme through social services or the health authority , but once out of institutional care , the fragile skills , sometimes learnt over a painfully slow time , can be lost through lack of use .
13	When men get to around forty they all seem to want to have affairs with younger women … but … they have usually forgotten how to go about ‘ chatting up ’ women and so they revert to pubescent memories and do incredibly stupid things like writing letters , or , even worse , poems to the unfortunate woman .

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