Example sentences of "usually did " in BNC.
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| 1 | They usually did , but but but but … |
| 2 | The night before the wedding the girls hardly slept at all and they did not chatter to one another as they usually did until they found sleep . |
| 3 | This he usually did , and often it was his eldest son . |
| 4 | He had forgotten all about Gina , as he usually did when he chatted up pretty girls . |
| 5 | Where a ‘ corporate ’ sense of the Church survived it usually did so , as at Holmer 's Green , through the survival of the older , Calvinist tradition which was alien to men like Clifford . |
| 6 | They usually did it for more obvious , sordid reasons ; they wanted money , they had fallen in love with someone else or lost their temper . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A bus did come , but not surprisingly it was not going through the City as it usually did . |
| 10 | With any of these two about , anything could happen , and usually did . |
| 11 | Instead of tracing the pages with his finger as he usually did , he was staring vacantly into space . |
| 12 | Now there were few options open to her ; rather on the old side to be sure of getting married , she decided to do what most of those who wanted to survive usually did : she left Frome . |
| 13 | The pupils were too depressed to bother sneaking into each other 's rooms for a chat as they usually did on the first night back at school . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , Mr Algernon ! ’ exclaimed Mildred with relief , and before he had time to hide away under a stone , as he usually did , she shot a hand into the water and scooped him up . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The big problem with this sort of fine-tuning , advisers said , was that it usually did more damage than it corrected . |
| 17 | Churchill had a great time in leading for the Opposition and made what I thought was a splendid speech — but then he usually did . |
| 18 | During her pregnancy , Priss had read a great deal about past mistakes in child rearing ; according to the literature , they were the result not only of ignorance , but of sheer selfishness : a nurse or a mother who gave a crying child paregoric usually did it for her own peace of mind , not wanting to be bothered . |
| 19 | He let out the incredulous , admiring little snort of laughter he usually did when mentioning the stationer 's : " Greeting cards ! |
| 20 | Then we would prepare breakfast , which would mean fetching the water and collecting wood for the fire , which the men usually did , while two women would be in charge of making the tortillas . |
| 21 | Van Cheele usually did what his aunt wanted . |
| 22 | I dare n't have done if I had n't er oh oh I know once my my doctor came to see me about something and there was erm a lot of people used to use er some pills oh what were they called , little round pills , when at the monthly periods they used to use them , oh Doctor Johnson 's , Doctor somebody 's pills , now they would have the effect of er your period you would see more than you usually did . |
| 23 | They they usually did n't finish it , but er they started , so er there was a fair amount of er of er of er interest in the marketplace . |
| 24 | He did n't wander over to the rack of imported American comic books as he usually did , but he seemed to be watching the street outside . |
| 25 | Too shy ( and now , he smiled at the word shy ever applying to him ) to approach her directly in the way that he usually did with women he found attractive . |
| 26 | I understand that Miss Hauxwell usually did n't cut her grass until well into August , so that gave the plants plenty of time to bloom and seed . |
| 27 | If Lorrimer worked late tonight — and he usually did — the blood analysis might even be available by tomorrow . |
| 28 | Who usually did the the band ? |
| 29 | She had eaten much more than she usually did at this time of day . |
| 30 | They usually did . |