Example sentences of "then [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then me mum went to America and took Angela with her , left no address or nothing , and so it 's just me — no father , no nothing . |
| 2 | Well , it began with just when I got me money each week , 'cos I had a job , a weekend job with me uncle and I 'd get me money and I 'd just go out and score , get a coupla bags or something and then me mates 'd come round here and say , ‘ Can I do a smoke in here ? ’ , y'know , and so they would and they 'd give me a smoke for coming in here and eventually it started getting , like , from weeks , from weekends to days , becoming every day , like . |
| 3 | ‘ Bell , then me stay here and ev'one gone ! ’ |
| 4 | And then me grandfather suddenly appeared , many years later , when they 'd got children that were grown up then , all of them , he appeared to these girls , would you believe it ? |
| 5 | That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way . |
| 6 | days you see , like I was out Monday I was busy all day Monday and then I Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday here yet I was busy , but it was all brain work |
| 7 | Then I sort of hold her hands tight while she rocks back and forward on the bed . |
| 8 | Well I did n't mind till I got a bit older , then I sort of started to kick , and er as I got older , that 's another story . |
| 9 | Five , yeah and then I sort of could extend it |
| 10 | What I do , that 's North , and then I sort of point round , I know it 's rude to point , measure that angle , forty five degrees , okay . |
| 11 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 12 | erm but then I sort of thought , no , well let's expand this one . |
| 13 | If you just chuck it on the floor , then someone s got to come round alter you and pick it up . |
| 14 | And then my friends ' boyfriends , on an evening out , they used to just have a go at him , and I 'd feel really embarrassed . |
| 15 | I had long hair , then my mum cut it off and it was really short , so I think everyone thought I was a boy anyway . |
| 16 | ‘ Then my mum told me it was terrible . ’ |
| 17 | But then my mum said , in a timorous voice , ‘ Do you mean Nelly Woodhouse that was with the Guardian Building Society ? ’ |
| 18 | Yeah I did that at school we had to stay in most break times as a child cos I could n't remember , and I , I know that my mum bought me a books so I used to sit for days and days , then my mum going over and then my nan going over and I could n't remember if I wanted |
| 19 | And then my Mum goes , eight o'clock I still ai n't up , my Mum goes get out of bed . |
| 20 | Then my son-in-law managed to get her heart going again . |
| 21 | If I order someone to clean their boots when I do not really believe that this should be done , then my order is insincere , and flawed ( condition 1 ) . |
| 22 | Then my head wo n't hurt . |
| 23 | Then my head hit something else and I realized it was one of Armstrong 's rear tyres . |
| 24 | I began to feel myself being pulled further and further under the water , I screamed and swore but nobody seemed to hear or believe me and then my head went under and all I remember is a feeling of despair as I squeezed the tree trunk only to find that it simply crumbled in my hands . |
| 25 | Er , I used not to do that , I used to put everything in one list , and then my home telephone was cut off one time , er , because I just never regarded the personal things as being terribly important until , you know , I do n't have to pay well over a hundred quid to get the thing fixed again . |
| 26 | A brief structural guide is all I 'm after … and then my tutor wo n't kill me and give me bad references for being a lazy git ( which I admittedly am ) ( This was supposed to be in last july ! ! ! ) |
| 27 | If proof were ever needed that I had a gift for spotting talent then my signing of Royston Marley was it . |
| 28 | erm which should be , you know , enough , but again if there 's a problem then my phone number is on your collection card which is there and I 'll come out and re-stock you as it were |
| 29 | I was living at my folks and then my parents found what they thought was a lump of cannabis in my pocket . |
| 30 | Then my parents and his parents started on me . |