Example sentences of "[conj] then [verb] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I 'm gon na make a and then rescue and it 's gon na be in there and get the diamonds out . |
| 2 | and he 's like going oh what you gon na do then poof and he goes I will look like I 'm scraping my knee , nuts him in the balls , and then goes and I will knock some dust off my shoulder like |
| 3 | Her father came up and listened for a while and then said that he thought it was all marvellous but he did n't understand a word of it . |
| 4 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 5 | erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry . |
| 6 | The debate was opened by David Trippier , Minister of State for the Environment , who said the House could debate no issue of more immediate importance … and then announced that he would have to leave early to present the Young Environmentalist of the Year award at a lunch . |
| 7 | Never pick the first fruit , " he said mysteriously , and then continued when he saw Patrick 's puzzled expression . |
| 8 | He laughed , and then added that he 'd been drunk as a cork himself actually , the night before . |
| 9 | They wished to kill and devour the father and then imagined that they had done so and felt guilty — is this what happened ? |
| 10 | He remembered some story about a primitive farmer who discovered roast pork when his house and his pig barn burned down and then imagined that he had to set fire to the place again every time he fancied a bit of crackling . |
| 11 | He stood the boxes side by side and then realised that they were the same size . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll take her out more , ’ Erika thought , and then realised that she might not be around to do so . |
| 13 | She had stayed in the cellar for what she thought was about three days and then realised that she had n't felt the vibration of gunfire for some time , perhaps a day and a night . |
| 14 | He tried to rub it , and then realised that he was handcuffed to the Police Constable sitting next to him . |
| 15 | She wondered idly why Rose had not asked him to apply the sun-cream and then realised that he was not among the swimmers . |
| 16 | Two waiters came into the buffet arguing , and then noticed that it was n't empty and went out again . |
| 17 | Julia said drily that she thought that free Capitalism with an adequate system of social welfare for all those who could not make their own success in it was probably the fairest workable system , and then laughed as she saw David 's expression . |
| 18 | Aunt Emily and Michael Swinton spoke to her together and then laughed and she saw that he looked quite different , much younger , that his hair and beard had been trimmed , that his expression was full of vitality . |
| 19 | In this section , I will first summarize his account , and then argue that it does not save the falsificationist from the objections of section 1 . |
| 20 | They will put the moment off for as long as possible or refuse to acknowledge that it is coming along and then protest that they were not told . |
| 21 | But he says , it 's no need to be expensive but he said , do n't go out and buy a set of bowls and then hope that you 're gon na like it . |
| 22 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 23 | Keith said : ‘ The less time company chiefs spend waiting for information , interpreting it and then debating whether it 's right or not , the more they can devote to deciding what action needs to be taken . |
| 24 | Never look at other people as ‘ things ’ to own for a while and then dump when you 're fed up with them . |
| 25 | We drove back across the States at the end of the summer of 1941 and then waited until we could get a passage home , which was n't until the following March . |
| 26 | And then coopt as they |
| 27 | As Lord Devlin has explained : " … you can not escape liability for defamation by putting the libel behind a prefix such as " I have been told that … " " or " it is rumoured that … " " , and then asserting that it was true that you had been told or that it was in fact being rumoured … |
| 28 | Nor is it enough to give them details of exercise and sport and then assume that they will simply become more active . |
| 29 | Robyn held it out at arm 's length , glanced at it and then cursed as she saw the blood that dripped from her fingers on to the black plastic . |
| 30 | It was just on a minute on page seventy-nine , I think we want to get the support of local M Ps , one a has I think , has been just indicated , is contradictory , it might be better to say , ‘ although the document indicated that local authorities would be expected to undertake extra , an extra , or extra duties , the resources needed are , no indication was given of how there would be extra resources , or something like that , you see it 's contradictory at the moment , it says there 's no indication of the role , and then says that they would need resources , and actually if you look through the document , you will see from time-to-time it is indicated what local authorities are expected to do , for instance recycling of litter and the lot , and I think that that might be actually picked up by M P's and say , ‘ Well , what actually have you , do you mean to say ’ , well , what we 're really saying , are we not , that here is an indication of things that we 're expected to do , but as usual , of course , the government has n't indicated what erm where the resources were coming from . |