Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day they come to the door and denounce me in fluent Anglo-Saxon for a Scarlet Woman , then I 'll think about it . ’ |
| 2 | Then she decided to be awkward , like she always is , and said I says oh it 's still taping you know and I s she said summat , I ca n't remember what it were now but I was saying , I knew that 'd happen , one minute yes then no , then I 'll think about it , I says and if I did n't start it when you went out you 'd be saying you could 've done this and that and er so she were chittering , pretending she said I could n't do it . |
| 3 | If anything happens to him then I 'll see to it that you 're held personally responsible . ’ |
| 4 | And maybe if you 're totally stuck , then I can go through it again next time , but |
| 5 | ‘ Then I must speak for it , ’ said the deep , stern voice . |
| 6 | And then nobody 'll think about it . |
| 7 | Yeah I mean I do n't know if I , I do n't , I 'm not saying I could I 'm just saying I bet if you had all that pressure then you would think of it differently . |
| 8 | If one grain of poison , red arsenic , white arsenic , the juice of the poppy or any other damnable philtre is here , then you will answer for it , not at the Guildhall but before King 's Bench ! |
| 9 | put yourself pan of stew on , then you can dip in it now and then |
| 10 | Heavy going at first , but then you can get into it . ’ |
| 11 | Then you can work with it . |
| 12 | well it is vanity , their health 's not gon na improve by er , with their breasts enlarged so I do n't see why the National Health should pay for that , if they want that doing they should pay themselves , different in Claire 's case because she 's got one breast extremely small and one large one so she 's got a deformity , that 's different , correcting a deformity 's different , but if you just wan na go from a size thirty two to a thirty six B , then you should pay for it do n't you think ? |
| 13 | If you work for an organisation which dictates a house-style , then you must conform to it in your correspondence , but you should remember that there are a number of equally valid alternatives . |
| 14 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |
| 15 | Friday night , Saturday night , then she could pay for it . |
| 16 | When asked to clarify his intended future playing policy , he said : ‘ Have a look and see what the team does in Spain , see how it plays and then we 'll talk about it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We have n't worked out a deal yet , but I said I would drive the car this weekend and then we 'll talk about it again next week . ’ |
| 18 | Then we would read about it in the press and it was all self-perpetuating . |
| 19 | He 'd fit the electrodes to my fingers , a band around my chest and a blood-pressure gauge to my left arm and then we 'd go at it , heat full up , windows closed , sweating like pigs because that was supposed to make the polygraph more accurate . |
| 20 | And then we could look at it that way . |
| 21 | ‘ Then we must talk about it , but not here . |
| 22 | Then we can look at it in its entirety , see the whole problem , and shape harmonies , rhythmic details , form , texture , etc. , into the best possible mould . |
| 23 | That brings us to quarter past ten , I suspect that there 's , tea and coffee 's out there then , and if it is , I think we 'll have the break just a bit earlier , and then we can get into it when . |
| 24 | Man , then they 'd hop to it ! ’ |
| 25 | Erm , the kid 's got to figure out if it 's going to use that to project the other sentences then it might come across it 's got to , it 's got ta decompose that into structure . |
| 26 | That was the way his mind worked ; he would be struck by a sentence or a phrase , then he would worry at it , turning it this way and that . |
| 27 | If that was the boy 's only motivation , then he could deal with it . |
| 28 | ‘ Then anyone could climb over it ? ’ |