Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had been older and wiser at the time , then I would have been sorely tempted to write back ( on Mother 's behalf ) something like this : ‘ My dear son , I must regretfully inform you , not with malice but with sorrow , that money is not easy to come by . |
| 2 | If I had n't been ‘ discovered ’ , as I suppose I must describe it , then I would have been on the same old path , up at Low Birk Hatt and miserable . |
| 3 | Jackie had had that all done and then I would have been in for my cup of tea . |
| 4 | ‘ But then I 'd have been worried if they 'd been lethargic , so you ca n't have it all ways ! ’ |
| 5 | If he 'd yelled at me then I 'd have been delirious , then I could have lived with him … |
| 6 | Had my talents lain in a completely different direction — say stonemasonry , or cooking , then I 'd have been equally happy to make those my career . |
| 7 | Well if Dan had n't rung then I 'd have been extremely fed up . |
| 8 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 9 | Then you 'll relax and it 'll happen — then you 'll stop being one of them miserable nymphos who hop from man to man , hoping for Mr Right , the man who can satisfy her . ’ |
| 10 | I could have stayed at Street till I was fourteen , I could have stayed at Street until I was fourteen , and then you would 've been out . |
| 11 | You must feel it deeply and not brush it aside , you must feel it right here , and then you can start being happy again . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Some idiot might have seen a well-dressed elderly gent near the railway line and then you could have been questioned . ’ |
| 13 | Remembering the Welsh love of nicknames , I said , ‘ Then you 'd have been Neil the Squeal . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah , well you should of done that five hands ago and then you 'd have been seventy five pence down ! |
| 15 | Mr Loveitt checked with the papers lying on his desk , allowing the small task to take longer than necessary , before asking sharply : ‘ If you know that , then you must have been there . |
| 16 | " Then you must have been to Paris before . " |
| 17 | We all know the facts and figures by now … if you do n't then you must have been on a different planet this weekend … |
| 18 | She could have wished it otherwise — then she might have been able to lose herself in the crowd . |
| 19 | If she had n't yielded to a guilty passion then she would have been a better wife to Denny . |
| 20 | ‘ Then she would have been able to visit his grave . ’ |
| 21 | Then she would have been free to leave the house whenever she wanted . |
| 22 | If Kirsty had fallen ill once they were down in London she would have been forced to stay there until she 'd recovered — and then she would have been in serious trouble , not only with Jake but with the law as well . |
| 23 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 24 | She encouraged them to smoke and then she 'd say be smoking . |
| 25 | Had they , after nineteen-eighteen , learnt the lessons that were to be learnt , then we might have been spared Hitler and the Second World War . |
| 26 | If the freefall had gone better on Sunday then we would have been untouchable by this stage , but as it is the French are still ver close and their shooting will be very good . |
| 27 | If we had scored five or six more goals which the statistics prove was possible , then we would have been going to Sydney next year . |
| 28 | then we 'd have been alright . |
| 29 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 30 | ‘ Then they would have been here hours ago . |