Example sentences of "[subord] then he [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I brought him it , erm , a lunch box with a flask in , I said , look this flask you suck it like a straw , so get him to take that everywhere with him cos then he can have that , then he , cos you said you wanted to get him off the bottles , cos you put the straw in that |
| 2 | He went hastily towards the door ; he did n't want Martin to come into the room because then he might break down and say things about his mother that were best left unsaid . |
| 3 | If he 'd been stronger I would n't have needed to because then he 'd have looked after me ’ . |
| 4 | At the end of the hut a boy waited , sitting hunched on an upper bunk , for darkness to come to the living quarters because then he could go to the mattress of the man who loved him … |
| 5 | If he is , attack while he is rising because then he will have little opportunity to launch a powerful counter-attack . |
| 6 | In the same term it was resolved by the two Chief Justices , Chief Baron , and Baron Altham , upon conference betwixt the Lords of the Privy Council and them , that the King by his proclamation can not create any offence which was not an offence before , for then he may alter the law of the land by his proclamation in a high point ; for if he may create an offence where none is , upon that ensues fine and imprisonment : also the law of England is divided into three parts , common law , statute law , and custom ; but the King 's proclamation is none of them : also malum aut eat malum in se , aut prohibitum , that which is against common law is malum in se , malum prohibitum is such an offence as is prohibited by Act of Parliament , and not by proclamation . |