Example sentences of "[noun sg] and then [unc] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I started on farm work and then er we left that and we started with the County Council .
2 So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship .
3 But Jim really hurt her because erm when she was going out with him he was a virgin and then erm they came back , you notice things were a bit sort of sort of on the rocks when they came back at first ?
4 I 'll tell you about that in a minute and then er I er had to go about forty times for permission .
5 Well I think it 's a joint er it 's a joint thing it 's an agreement we have with the United States Air Force , they send somebody over here to our Academy and then erm we send somebody over there .
6 No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow .
7 And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council .
8 I think she 's erm they like take so much out of her pension but she 's not gon na need owt any way and then erm I think government or whatever put rest .
9 Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there .
10 Cos they used t what they used to do in the small boat , they used to coil so much in the then they 'd row to the quay and then the they 'd run ashore hid past the line and pull a river and put the bollard for 'em and then cos they 'd turn round they might give us a quid for a drink you see
11 We get sent all over erm the country , southern England I , I was sent to different hospitals to learn about different things , to learn about erm psychiatry and obstetrics and medicine and then erm you also do some er training back in your own hospital , but it 's not big enough for all the doctors to stay there all the time well the baby doctors .
12 And er you sort of pull the shoe over the sole and er then hit , my father would sort of shape a piece of leather around the sole of the shoe and then er he would sort of tacks that went through , the hobbing iron which was iron of cours tacks that went through , the hobbing iron which was iron of course would bend them over inside your shoe , just like a normal cobbler repairs shoe .
13 I thought , yeah , fair enough she goes , we can go and pick him up from the child-minder and then er you can come for some tea and you 'll be home by about half seven !
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