Example sentences of "but then [pron] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | but then they said work , they wo n't let them , the money that they 've got on council houses , they wo n't let them spend it you see that ? |
| 2 | A Hannoverian duke became our own George I. This historical link does n't mean Hannover is any more British than Buck House is German , but then nobody visits Hannover for cucumber sandwiches . |
| 3 | ‘ We had informed the ACU of our plans and were told there was no objection ’ , Ernie told me , ‘ but then we received news that Mark would not be accepted for the Superteen because he did n't have a restricted licence and he had also scored points in the previous year 's British championship . |
| 4 | Yes , silly , but then he invented Christianity , did n't he , so all the Jews were supposed to stop being Jews and be Catholics instead . |
| 5 | I got together with a school friend when I was 12 — I 'd just started playing guitar — and we played Beatles and Stones numbers , but then he got hold of a Muddy Waters album and that just blew us away ! |
| 6 | For a moment or two , he withstood the pleasure , but then he took hold of her hips and drew her hard into him . |
| 7 | For a few seconds even Morse was lost a little ; but then he grinned acknowledgement : ‘ You 're a cultured sod . ’ |
| 8 | His baggy rambles about his day-to-day , metropolitan life , and his energetic use of his body in his joke-telling ( he calls it ‘ physicalising ’ , but then he did drama at university ) has earned him two appearances on Tonight With Jonathan Ross , about a million bookings per week on the London circuit , and a place in the hearts of audiences and promoters . |
| 9 | In August he went again to Switzerland , and for a week in September he looked after his grandniece who had travelled to London to see him ; but then he contracted athlete 's foot and had once again to enter a nursing home . |
| 10 | But then I had steak and mushrooms to follow . |
| 11 | but then I have circulation problems so I do feel the cold . |
| 12 | I danced until I was 18 or 19 but then I lost interest . |
| 13 | However , if I actually wanted to come along and learn some English — I did ‘ O ’ level English , I enjoyed it immensely , but then I did science in the sixth for and went on to a science career — can I come and study English at your school ? |
| 14 | There 's your calcium chloride what have we get left over we 've got this we 've got hydrogen carbonate and that was really should have been your answer but then you know carbon dioxide came out so you just took it out and you got water left over . |
| 15 | We have n't gone , in physics , seriously into trying to understand the biological aspects , but then you see biology is becoming dominated in the last ten years by the understanding of basic biochemistry of cells . |
| 16 | But then she makes music to send to other worlds ; music too , promising peace and cooperation in a new spiritually harmonious era ; music that defies gravity all on its own . |