Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Then I said what I can do — organise , put twenty-four hours in a day and I 'm energetic . |
2 | When his initial interest waned , the teacher paid no more attention to him : ‘ Then I realized what he was interested in me for and we ended up just walking past each other , completely ignoring each other . ’ |
3 | Then I realized what I was saying . |
4 | ‘ When I was in India , I thought then I knew what it was I might believe in . |
5 | my daddy goes erm where will you be so I can in touch with you by phone laughing cos they were shouting at me and then he said to me and then I told him it was n't and he goes so why do you go |
6 | ‘ It was then I told her I would divorce my wife and marry her . ’ |
7 | ‘ I felt like you at first , then I realised what it meant . |
8 | Then I realised what I was saying , and it sort of realised that it was n't really a a complimentary thing to say to her . |
9 | And then I remembered what she had said . |
10 | Then I provided what I hoped to be the optimum conditions for healthy growth — perfect drainage . |
11 | Then you knew what he was eating . |
12 | Then she realized what she had said and put a hand over her mouth in consternation . |
13 | Then she said what you laughing at . |
14 | And then she heard them she was harassed . |
15 | ‘ Then she told me she 'd been offered a part in Jane Eyre at Warrington rep and did I think she ought to accept . |
16 | Then she told herself he had only got the better of her because she was , as he had so rightly said , suffering from shock and exhaustion . |
17 | It was only then she saw what she should have noticed immediately : a bunch of keys with one stuck in the lock , many of them hung with labels . |
18 | And then she saw what she had not seen before . |
19 | Then she convinced him he was to say no more about leaving and get back to the story he had been working on when the row blew up . |
20 | Then she bought whatever it was and paid their price without worrying too much about the provenance . |
21 | Then she examined what she could of her singed hair , licked her cut lip better and tried to smooth her broken nails . |
22 | Then she remembered what he really wanted from her and her rage burst forth like fire . |
23 | I remember Glyn and the kids were very young I think some of the were born in Blaenau erm and they were dismantling an old quarry at there his brother W R from Harlech had bought it usa like a machinery merchant and Glyn then borrowed a lot of tools off me for dismantling it then we started we we 'd done a lot off and on together we 'd been in er I enjoyed working with him , he was the type of man very hard worker himself but he wanted his pound of flesh . |
24 | I mean they cut in through Manchuria down the north to , to , across to north China plain , had taken the cities on the eastern seaboard which was what they wanted , I mean th th they really was n't any point in controlling the rural south , it would have taken so many troops , so much administration if they 'd that then they had everything they wanted from the trading ports so there was n't that Japanese presence and so the clearly was different . |
25 | Then they discussed what they had in mind for the publicity . |
26 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
27 | ‘ Where did you get the Hell 's Angels outfit ? ’ he asked , then he realized what he 'd said . |
28 | Then he asked what she was doing . |
29 | Brom not Brompton Barracks , Barracks , and I saw him there first of all and then he told me they were going send me to Tidworth . |
30 | ‘ But then he told me he wanted to be a woman . |