Example sentences of "[conj] then [pron] [verb] they " in BNC.

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1 but if er , yes if you have somebody to take you to station and then we pick 'em up
2 ‘ When we go to the unit , we greet the residents — we have twelve of them — we say hello and then we make them a cup of tea . ’
3 the only thing again that I 'm thinking of what if we gets them out of the caravan and we gets them into the car and we 're getting them in and out here and then we gets them back into the car to take them back over and in to the caravan , what if we rip the bloody things ?
4 Jonas witnessed the whole attack from the ground at Luqa , and wrote : ‘ … and then we saw them : vic following vic of small grey forms , 15,000 feet , 16,000 feet , perhaps even higher .
5 And then we heard them coming in : gas pings , crowings , croonings , cacklings .
6 Parts are cast in the foundry or bought in and then we machine 'em .
7 No , I know , but we better that and then we specify they 're our modules .
8 And those mines , ’ he gazed across at the fells but , true to his wits , in the wrong direction , ‘ they open them up every six or seven years , they take what they want and then they close them down .
9 and then they take them
10 Now of course what happened is that we claimed , we w went to the insurance and then they took they got a list of what was damaged and we replaced it for what he 'd lost er exactly .
11 You know they , they ran , they took the nurses , because the nurses home was a mile or , was it a mile or a mile and a half or something from the hospital , they had this , they took them in the morning and then they took them at lunchtime and then all the different shifts coming on and off they took them , and they had the schools run as well .
12 They put them up to one eight six and then they brought them
13 They come out of lectures and then they round them up and put them in a small group , you know .
14 yeah , yeah I must admit it 's a poor do when they know exactly where the criminal 's going to be at a certain time and then they let 'em go
15 He 's got a musical test which says do n't they 're tired they 're tired and then he said the pig says I 'm not and then the people said Oh dear and then he said I 'm hungry and then they said they 're hungry and he says I 'm not and he 's sleepy .
16 And he cried do you think she would need a worm and he held up a worm , but he came and put this poisoned worm in the mole , you know that 's what they did , they had er mole er worms that had doped with poison , you see and then they dropped them in the hole and that was the end of the mole .
17 They have to explain that although they 're priests they 're really not credulous nitwits , and then they feel they have to go further and they end up writing books about it and yapping away on the television . ’
18 well they do n't have them and then they drew them
19 The band was down below and then a loft , a long wooden just like a dance hall up above and they just did that and they just they had tables set and then they removed them for the dances .
20 and then they forget they have to pay for it
21 Well maybe they 've not been so they give them so long and then they cross them off the books do n't they ?
22 They did n't theek the hay stacks though , well Yes when er There was the tramp coles and then they broke them into what they called the big hay stacks but they were great big round great big
23 Actors learn them off by heart and then they rehearse them masses and masses of times until it sounds as if they 've just thought of them . ’
24 And then one hit them , racing out of the darkness .
25 For a second she thought they must have turned the other way , and then she saw them again , riding through the trees , the sunlight striking them before they moved off into the shadows .
26 And then she saw them and stopped dead in her tracks .
27 Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine .
28 And then she heard them she was harassed .
29 There was a pause while Sara collected herself , and then she said they must go back and do the accounts .
30 And then she sent them bouncing across the table .
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