Sentence examples for before and usually from inspiring English sources

Breaking off from a particularly jagged and angry riff, he launched into an equally jagged diatribe, the gist of which was already familiar to me: everything in popular music had been done before, and usually those who'd done it first had done it best.

Dr. Doug Connelly, a marine geochemist at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton and co-leader of the discovery team, said, "Hot and acidic vents have never been seen in an area like this before, and usually we don't even look for vents in places like this".

I've played to big crowds like that before, and usually there's a big roar and you're on.

Although Alekseev's 13 0-0 had been played before and usually with great success, Dominguez's reply, 13... h5, which was a new move, showed that White's king was hardly safe.

Increasingly people ask, "What is the point of actually voting for anyone any more?" Of course, politicians have heard that line before and usually fall back on the weak defence, "People fought and even died for the right to vote" but the reality is that there exists a much deeper public scepticism about the ballot box which is I fear – at least in part – justified.

The two sides have had periodic deteriorations in bilateral ties before and usually found a way to settle if not resolve differences.

The good news is that we've been there before, and it usually doesn't work.

Economic ministers in Latin America always counter reports of current problems with references to how bad things were before, and they usually are right.

In practice, however, this cost is low because templates are checked for matching before attempting allocation and usually they contain just a few placeholders.

In both personal and negotiation conversations, we perceive warmth before competence and usually weigh warmth more heavily.

He avoids learning the script too well often rewriting or striking pages of dialogue minutes before shooting and usually shoots only a handful of takes.