Example sentences of "[prep] then they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say that I need to discuss copy when I 've got there if you 've got copy if they 've had full colour before then they will have bromides and separations and things like |
| 2 | Until then they 'll continue to monitor him , hoping to find new clues about the mysterious ailment . |
| 3 | ‘ They have been treated , therefore , as persons in a different situation from mere contractors for then they would have been exempt , but in truth they are purchasers who have acquired an interest not in a mere chattel , but in a subject of a permanent nature … ’ |
| 4 | They would wait silently by the roadside for a victim and could only he identified if forced to speak , for then they would emit a loud bray . |
| 5 | Speed is important to prevent the parasitised birds from catching sight of the intruder and becoming aware of the deception , for then they may desert the nest altogether . |
| 6 | Complicated theological issues like salvation and redemption need to be talked through carefully , and at the hearer 's own pace , for then they will hear . |
| 7 | It needs to be related to their own experience , for then they will understand . |
| 8 | ‘ The characters when I 'd started out were in my head , but by then they 'd become real actors . |
| 9 | I 've got a lot to tell him and Jim and by then they should have seen our chairman . |