Example sentences of "then [indef pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But the Halifax said last year that they would n't take on any wounded soldiers , so that if er a society went to the wall and its debts were bad , then nobody may step in to s to actually erm erm solve the problem if you like . |
| 32 | And then nobody 'll think about it . |
| 33 | But he told me that , in the eyes of the law , theft is actually a lesser charge than handling stolen goods If there were n't people handling stolen goods then nobody would nick things in the first place . |
| 34 | If I looked like Roseanne Barr then nobody would buy my video . |
| 35 | If that nice middle-class boy , Muhammad Ali , is truly The Greatest , then nobody can argue that social deprivation is a necessity for ring greatness . |
| 36 | Do you wan na sit in , no , do you wan na sit in there and then nobody can use it . |
| 37 | If those old pros did n't know how to get Gesner back into the plot , how to adjust and improvise the act , then nobody could . |
| 38 | And then we had to wait while they poured them in the moulds , but if the moulds failed , and they were rather big , they was full of air-holes and they used to turn it all into a fine just l l pebbles of molten metal , straight back up at you , and you could n't move cos if you moved your crane then somebody would have been killed with out the ladles . |
| 39 | And then somebody would bring something up . |
| 40 | And then somebody 'll sing some song that 's completely unrelated to it |
| 41 | Er perhaps it er perhaps it also prompts a greater fear of not being in control , a greater fear of of er not being in in some way in command of the situation because then somebody might do something to you . |
| 42 | If there has n't been an historic massacre there , then somebody ought to organise one , or at least a bit of a tiff , to do justice to its shadowy , sombre sentinels of cliffs . |
| 43 | Er and then somebody 'd come along and say , are you Jack ? |
| 44 | Well I put it on early and then somebody will have to come . |
| 45 | If I lo , if I sit out there looks , looking sorry for myself then somebody will take me . |
| 46 | Well I 'd only say that initially erm because then what you end up with is a sort of lucky dip which every now and then somebody will remember the bag of science tricks that somebody 's taught them and dip into . |
| 47 | Well I 'd only say that initially erm because then what you end up with is a sort of lucky dip which every now and then somebody will remember the bag of science tricks that somebody 's taught them and dip into . |
| 48 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 49 | Allen thought that if they were delayed long enough the Friar would return and then something might be done … unless it was the Friar who had betrayed them . |
| 50 | Had interview with housing official who stated that I had to transfer the tenancy from my wife 's name to mine and then something would be done within a week . |
| 51 | Sometimes I managed to block them out for a while , then something would happen to trigger them back — a comment or something on TV . |
| 52 | When he says that erm that sort of , that 's what the C C P leadership thought and so they thought that if they were n't getting the land then something must be going wrong with the policy |
| 53 | So you leave them naive and stupid and then something could happen and they |
| 54 | If indeed there are dangers to the health of our children in exposure to low levels of lead , and if we can reduce this exposure by banning lead additives from petrol , then something can and should be done . |
| 55 | people do understand that there ar , if there 's a problem and you can do something about it without being a hero , as Mark said then something should be done . |
| 56 | If she did n't manage they 'd take the baby away , and then everything would be wasted . |
| 57 | They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine . |
| 58 | And then everything would have been different . |
| 59 | There may be some kind of notice on them that says , you know , these machines should not be switched and then everything would be switched off . |
| 60 | The sufferer believes that if only other people would change then everything would be all right . |