Example sentences of "and then i [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I 'll be past caring . |
| 2 | ‘ When I 've finished with Chan you can help me get that beast boring again , and then I 'll be making a whole load of calls . ’ |
| 3 | But in a minute I shall just jump in the car , and then I 'll be in Oxford before you can blink . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm just waiting for my international clearance now , which should only take a few days , and then I 'll be aiming to challenge for a first team place . ’ |
| 5 | You sit still there ; I 'll make us a drink , and then I 'll be off . ’ |
| 6 | Put your hands up and then I 'll be able to listen to you . |
| 7 | No , I 've got another couple of years and then I 'll be able to do what I like , when I like , with no parents on my back ! |
| 8 | She 's going to die first and she wo n't notice it , and then I 'll be on my own . |
| 9 | If the authorities get hold of me , it wo n't matter what I say — I 'll be returned , and then I 'll be lost . ’ |
| 10 | But this would now seem directed against the invalid so I hold back , thinking , in two years I will be at the comprehensive and only five years after that — providing I pass the scholarship exam , which I easily should — I 'll be at boarding school , and then I 'll be free , free to scratch and do whatever I like . |
| 11 | I 'll creep down later and borrow a couple of items from Auntie 's handbag and then I 'll be set . |
| 12 | The Angel of Death looks in and he says : ‘ You 've got five minutes to get your clean nightdress on , and arrange your effects , and put the cat out , and tear up that compromising letter , and then I 'll be back for you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We can drag that underneath the window and then I 'll be able to get through the window . ’ |
| 14 | I 'll finish building my town and then I 'll be a rich man . |
| 15 | C E C are accepting , coupled with a statement and with a qualification and then I 'll be asking to respond for the C E C. Motion three two three May Day Holidays . |
| 16 | Can you excuse me for a few minutes while I have a word with the others and then I 'll be straight back to you ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ College in the morning and then I 'll be back to wait at lunch . ’ |
| 18 | It wo n't be all that long before Susan marries and then I 'll be a great-grandmother . |
| 19 | Right I 've got one more drink to make my dears and then I 'll be with you |
| 20 | And then I 'll be |
| 21 | and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way |
| 22 | The money I was going to save on rent over the next month could be put towards a deposit on something — always assuming the Department of Employment did eventually pay me my due — and then I would be able to start again . |
| 23 | I felt dirtied by the corruption of pimps , yet I would soon be free of them for I had just one more job to do , and then I would be loosed to the consolations of Masquerade and to the joys of the South Pacific 's winds . |
| 24 | I kept waving to Mike but he took no notice , and if I hang about here Otley will only ask me to fetch him a slice of ox and then I shall be sick . |
| 25 | And then I shall be in diffs . ’ |
| 26 | All I have to do is to get through the skin of stones and then I shall be in soft earth ( I imagine ) . |
| 27 | And then I shall be flung for ever into the River of the Dead … |
| 28 | The hour may come within weeks , within days , to-morrow ; and then , before I take the field with the fate of Wales in my hands , I have a need of her and a use for her here ; and then I shall be loosed from this dumbness that binds my tongue , and I shall be able to say to her what needs to be said , and what as yet I can not say . |
| 29 | And then I might be able to get it . |
| 30 | so I might have a couple of days off and then I can be with Laddie and take him for walks and everything |