Example sentences of "and then [pron] were [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then they were raked into Well we just er If they were dry they were raked into big swathes , to be near where you could build the tramp coles But if they were n't you would put them into little coles and the and then they were the little coles was put up t t together to make a bigger one . |
| 2 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 3 | And then there were a lot of questions about money . |
| 4 | A few mouths dropped open and then there were a few nervous giggles . |
| 5 | and then erm next in order was erm Alfred who was the Chief Clerk and then there were a number on level pegging , there was erm Cyril in charge of Works and Stores , Arthur who was erm , as I 've said was my erm the guardian and erm in the Finance Section was Charlie and erm then there was the typing pool . |
| 6 | I do n't know how many years it went on and then there were a lot of ploughs and boys a lot of their own ploughs I think . |
| 7 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 8 | A and then there were no trains . |
| 9 | And then there were the games with Newbridge ( won unconvincingly ) and Bridgend ( lost disastrously ) . |
| 10 | As a kid the scale of the film images was frightening , and then there were the myriads of dots , scratches and lines , accompanied by clicks and plops on the soundtrack . |
| 11 | And then there were the animals . |
| 12 | And then there were the mills . |
| 13 | Even for a short weekend trip , Sally , his widow , wrote there would be ‘ a dictionary , the complete works of Shakespeare , the Oxford Book of English Verse , the Koran , a Larousse , an atlas , together with paperback copies of the Oxford Book of Quotations , a reader 's encyclopaedia … ’ and then there were the new novels and biographies and history bought in paperback raids . |
| 14 | And then there were the weekend expeditions through Chelsea , generally in the afternoon , when Eliot would push Hayward across the bridge to Battersea Gardens or along Chelsea Embankment to the gardens of the Royal Hospital . |
| 15 | There was the high-class brothel , managed by Michael Lee , which operated out of the house across the park from Katherine 's own home , and then there were the dozen or so girls — the pick of the brothel girls — who worked the society parties . |
| 16 | And then there were the the dose was reduced and then I had to come off them altogether and after twenty nine years of dieting unsuccessfully I gave up dieting and I have n't put on any weight since I gave up dieting ! |
| 17 | And then there were the footsteps , a whole tangle of unrelated ikons and incidents , the photo on the curiosa cabinet , oblique looks , Alison , the little girl called Lily with her head in sunlight … |
| 18 | And then there were the noises … the rock of the mountain itself stirring from its immeasurable slumber ; the painful groaning of timbers carrying terrible burdens ; the distorted echoes of dripping water , and unseen men at their tasks … and the unexplained sounds which all miners know about but rarely speak of . |
| 19 | And then there was these these thick er straw ropes going over and then there were the other which were going sideways along the roof to hold the thatch down . |
| 20 | Well majority er then in them days we were Welsh they are they are English , they 're English erm Congregational Christ Church and then there were the English presbyterian across the road . |
| 21 | And then there were the letters . |
| 22 | And then there were the free pop concerts which attracted as many as a quarter of a million hippies . |
| 23 | I do n't know , of course , but it just seemed to me … well , and then there were the clothes . ’ |
| 24 | It did n't work at first because people forgot and then there were the tourists who came in and did n't know the seating arrangements . |
| 25 | yes and then there were the er |
| 26 | And then there were the vaudeville films . |
| 27 | And then you were a fully qualified nurse ? |
| 28 | First you were a little girl and then you were a teenager with long silvery-fair hair and long , slender legs . |