Example sentences of "then [pron] [was/were] [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said yeah , and then I was a sleep you know . |
| 2 | Then there was a noise we had not heard before . |
| 3 | Erm yeah cos you know before we had the fence and then there was a gate which was quite tall ? |
| 4 | He had done all he could , but the boy was gone — could n't say he blamed him — and if the Irish Republican Brotherhood were sheltering him , then there was no way he was going to be able to make contact with him . |
| 5 | ‘ Then there was the day she told him that she had read his books . |
| 6 | ‘ And then there was the day I arrived at your home , ’ Adam went on relentlessly . |
| 7 | Then there was the year we took part in the P.M.B. Organic Potato Storage Trials . |
| 8 | Then there was the actor who played his younger brother Adam , Nicholas Lyndhurst . |
| 9 | And then there was these these thick er straw ropes going over and then there were the other which were going sideways along the roof to hold the thatch down . |
| 10 | Then there were the screws they called night patrol . |
| 11 | It did n't work at first because people forgot and then there were the tourists who came in and did n't know the seating arrangements . |
| 12 | If that was the case , then it was a mutation which bred true . |
| 13 | Then it was a Corinthian who , in the late sixth century made a speech ( Hdt. v.92 ) which saved Athens from invasion by Spartans who wanted to reinstate the Pisistratid tyrant Hippias . |
| 14 | But then it was a politician who coined the phrase , ‘ lies , damned lies and statistics ’ , which rather blew the gaff in the first place . |