Example sentences of "she usually " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a Muslim , she usually marries a cousin who lives in the same village so at least the surroundings are familiar to her ; but among Hindus and Sikhs the husband 's family nearly always live in a different village ( because a woman must marry outside her kin ) . |
| 2 | She usually plays music when she 's home . |
| 3 | When she gets one she usually reads it out to me . |
| 4 | She usually assumed that look just before he succeeded in reducing her to tears . |
| 5 | Once inside a gallery , Gina would sidle up to the bowls and shovel large handfuls of nuts or crisps into the pockets of the loose Chinese quilted jacket that she usually wore . |
| 6 | He suspected she 'd shoplifted it , as she usually had some small item in a plastic bag , too . |
| 7 | She usually found those , though , just as she usually found any cash or letters that he 'd hidden from her . |
| 8 | She usually found those , though , just as she usually found any cash or letters that he 'd hidden from her . |
| 9 | I could well imagine her lecturing : she would be wearing a mortar-board and gown perhaps , her head on one side as she usually held it when talking ; and her eyes would be twinkling , as she held forth in that clear , incisive , ‘ educated ’ voice of hers . |
| 10 | She usually has a snack mid-morning , at around 4 pm , and later in the evening while watching television . |
| 11 | Zambia was wearing some of Tammuz' clothes and Roirbak thought the khaki and green suited hir far better than the dusty black SHe usually favoured . |
| 12 | I suspect that Mum is angry about this , as she usually relies on me in the summer to look after my younger sister while she is at work . |
| 13 | She pulled herself straight and directed into his sleepy eyes the look she usually reserved for teachers and principals . |
| 14 | She usually arrived about a quarter to nine , greeted her colleague , read her correspondence , and was then prepared to face the assembled school . |
| 15 | When Lady Maud Hoare flew from Britain to India in 1926 on the first ever flight from Croydon to Delhi she had to reduce the amount of luggage with which she usually travelled quite drastically . |
| 16 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 17 | In the bedroom above she dropped the linen onto a chair ; then , going to the window , she stood looking out , as she usually did , over the chimney pots towards the river . |
| 18 | A wholesale buyer of women 's underwear for a large store could not hope to inspect every single item she intends buying ; what she usually does is to inspect a sample of goods and to base her decision on this . |
| 19 | ‘ She usually got it one way or another . ’ |
| 20 | She usually so high and bright , a breezy chatter of her day in class , but now ; her work , the tawse , the first time she had used it , her tearful minute victims , she did not feel herself at all . |
| 21 | Although she usually got on well with children , she found Hilary heavy going . |
| 22 | She usually plumps for a lamb rogan josh ( £7.25 ) , a traditional dish cooked with spices , browned onions , ginger and garlic and simmered in yoghurt . |
| 23 | But the Princess Royal has never enjoyed the grandeur of formal royal occasions and the second time round she will most likely go for something along the lines of the more relaxed and comfortable clothes that she usually favours . |
| 24 | She was opening the post in her private office at Kensington Palace , a task she usually relished . |
| 25 | She usually piles on some extra pounds too . |
| 26 | Before the cuckoo abandons its offspring to the care of the foster parents , there is one other action she usually carries out . |
| 27 | ‘ When you went shopping together here , did she ever say anything about the way in which she usually spent her allowance ? ’ |
| 28 | She usually left with one of the men . |
| 29 | When she weans them on to meat she usually feeds them from the kill before she herself eats . |
| 30 | Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot . |