Example sentences of "[conj] then [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | part of it , have a look at it , Sandra , if you pa if you pass it onto each other and then just say that I think that 's worth getting cos we do have the money now er to start and look at things like that . |
| 2 | One thinks of the way in which the industry set up a factory , with considerable Government money , to produce Skoal Bandits , and then blatantly promoted that carcinogenic product , which promotes mouth cancers , to children in nearby schools . |
| 3 | Amiss had a fruitless stab at trying to imagine Joan , Kate or Mary tumbling with Ramsbum and then wisely concluded that it was time to go to bed . |
| 4 | Claiming that natural processes are carried out by ‘ god ’ and then further claiming that evidence of the process is proof of the independent and prior existence of the ‘ god ’ , is an example of the ‘ circular logic ’ that is sometimes advanced as proof , and often can be quite difficult to expose for the fraud that it is . |
| 5 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 6 | We are told to exercise , but then again told that too much exercise can be a bad thing for those of a certain age . |
| 7 | She began with light-hearted repartee , but then quickly realised that the politician was more interested in the problems of Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | She frowned , but then reluctantly decided that made sense . |