Example sentences of "did not usually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As there was no effective treatment , the asylums were more custodial than therapeutic and did not usually cater for investigation and research . |
| 3 | In the sixteenth century the word ‘ empire ’ did not usually refer to a state with transoceanic possessions of this sort . |
| 4 | If battles , in themselves , did not usually lead to the achievements of such goals , what would ? |
| 5 | This did not usually involve medication as the following interviewee 's experience of Detention Centre illustrates : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She wanted to open the windows in the bedrooms , which she did not usually do , and opened their bedroom door . |
| 8 | Mary did not like her , but that was not surprising , because she did not usually like people . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 … . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Our own recording efforts were concentrated on species , and we did not usually attempt to record vegetation . |
| 12 | It did not usually occur to the client that DPR might be prospering from his losses . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Mr Utterson did not usually ask anyone for advice . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | People did not usually describe themselves as servants ( clients did not , nor did government employees ) . |
| 21 | The man did n't usually comment , but this time , after a pause , pouring himself another cup , he said : |
| 22 | But then she did n't usually sleep so soundly out of doors , and she put her reactions down to recent stress . |
| 23 | He looked tired , which he did n't usually do . |
| 24 | That surprised me since we did n't usually do things together . |
| 25 | Meredith was disconcerted by his unsmiling reaction because people did n't usually stay immune to her friendly warmth . |
| 26 | You often had to wait here while the Edinburgh trains came and went , but the delay did n't usually last this long . |
| 27 | He did n't usually think of Margaret so much when he was away , but the whole thing had him on edge . |
| 28 | She did n't usually repeat herself , but apprehension was numbing her brain , making her stupid . |
| 29 | It did n't usually matter because there was always the alternative of going back to where we started and tighten the game up ’ . |
| 30 | Although she was a widow , she did n't usually wear black . |