Example sentences of "a [noun] and then [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Brett 'n' Damon ‘ m ’ me hand about playing Stackheel Olympics for a bit and then we go into town to look at the girls . |
| 2 | we had Roy and then we had Simon for a bit and then we decided because it was n't working altogether an Edinburgh person and a Glasgow person |
| 3 | So do you think that erm when this law was erm pushed through in nineteen forty seven that er perhaps Mao you know well I think there 's been a bit of excess now , I think we 'll do some we just need , we just need a bit of a rush now just to take us through a bit and then we 'll stop it in a few months time . |
| 4 | We 'll turn it over in a bit and then we 'll have a problem . |
| 5 | There were frogs all round us , bubbling away , and we sat still for a bit and then he said , ‘ That 's the sound of Africa — it 's one of the things I love best ’ , and I knew he had n't been thinking about the baby or about me . |
| 6 | It 's great to be out somewhere and then decide to go home , and there it is , waiting for you , and all you got to do is walk a bit and then you 'll be home and everything 'll be OK . |
| 7 | pink and are really lovely for a bit and then you suddenly get a wind |
| 8 | Cos in the morning they get the sun from that direction , then they do n't see the sun again for a bit and then it turns up suddenly from over there . |
| 9 | Then you take that and taper down a bit and then it 's gon na split again |
| 10 | I stood it for a bit and then I 'm afraid I said to him that what was sauce for the goose and at least I was n't married . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe the circumstances are n't as bad as I first supposed ; and if I do X , Y and Z it may be possible to redress the balance a bit and then I wo n't feel so upset . ’ |
| 12 | When they were very expensive I just bought two for us to change a bit and then I thought right now they dropped half and then I bought some more |
| 13 | I expect it was one of these walks you know , and Ian found a stick and then he thought Tim would like one . |
| 14 | ‘ I just heard a whoosh and then he was on fire , ’ said 19-year-old Mr Nellis , of Conway Drive , Thorntree , Middlesbrough . |
| 15 | I 'm just gon na make a building and then we can get ready . |
| 16 | Cos you 've got a building and then you 've got the idea of building on past knowledge and experience . |
| 17 | The the point Peter er is making is do n't make it out to us because if you if you give me a cheque to Worsley I 've got to go to Peter 's house and and then get him to give me a cheque and then I 've got to go to either Kerry or Bob and get them |
| 18 | so that 's just a , a verb and then you can put , put in anything such that if such thing smiles upon you , you are blessed , God , destiny , fate , fortune . |
| 19 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 20 | ‘ Sometimes he just gets bored in a fight and then I have to slap his face and tell him to get on with it . |
| 21 | Just a quick drink for a bracer and then it must be done . |
| 22 | Have some more breakfast and then I 'll read you a story and then we 'll go and get dressed . |
| 23 | and they have a look and then they say , Oh I 'm sure it was n't that way . |
| 24 | The studio thinks Vic 's a genius and gave him as much as they could until the insurance boys dug their heels in over big-name leads falling out of a canoe and then they went down the list and found a couple of guys the industry could afford to lose . |
| 25 | And nerves too when you have a finger whose paralysed and could n't remove it and put in a nerve and then they could work again . |
| 26 | Lunch is usually a sandwich and then she works until the twins return at around 3pm . |
| 27 | Yeah you 're sort of thinking when my why got a card and then they tell you to look round , how much it 's gon na cost you and I mean , you know , jus jus just you know is everything gon na work out , you know ? |
| 28 | You 've only done about two words , then you have a break and then you go back to it and you get another three or four . |
| 29 | I 'd taken a year off just before I found out I was pregnant , because I 'd badly needed a break and then I could n't work looking fat . |
| 30 | Cos Moira often feels needs a break and then she can relax or else get some things done . |