Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had been older and wiser at the time , then I would have been sorely tempted to write back ( on Mother 's behalf ) something like this : ‘ My dear son , I must regretfully inform you , not with malice but with sorrow , that money is not easy to come by . |
| 2 | Jackie had had that all done and then I would have been in for my cup of tea . |
| 3 | Had my talents lain in a completely different direction — say stonemasonry , or cooking , then I 'd have been equally happy to make those my career . |
| 4 | Well if Dan had n't rung then I 'd have been extremely fed up . |
| 5 | I could have stayed at Street till I was fourteen , I could have stayed at Street until I was fourteen , and then you would 've been out . |
| 6 | Mr Loveitt checked with the papers lying on his desk , allowing the small task to take longer than necessary , before asking sharply : ‘ If you know that , then you must have been there . |
| 7 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 8 | ‘ Then they would have been here hours ago . |
| 9 | In real terms the average incomes of lone parents have fallen — if their incomes had gone up in line with the Retail Price Index then they would have been about £12 per week higher in 1989 . |
| 10 | ‘ Then they might have been more sympathetic . ’ |
| 11 | If she knew he was near , watching her from that distant , unimaginable place , then these past months of playing her part , of continuing Mark 's glorious laughter and zest for life in a sort of living memorial to his spirit — well , then it would have been all worth it . |
| 12 | If the commission , which since its inception has been the CIVC 's ComCon ( Commission Consultative ) , required a yardstick on which to base their annual increase or decrease of production limits , then it would have been more rational at the time to term the figure , whether or not it was actually 50 hectolitres per hectare , an average for the region . |
| 13 | If the oboe band was a viable theatrical ensemble as late as 1688 , then it must have been even more so in the 1660s , when the orchestra as we conceive of it was merely starting to come into being . |
| 14 | If he was not involved , then he must have been incredibly naive . |