Example sentences of "then they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll do anything to make you dependent on them , and then they drag you to the altar and call it love . ’ |
| 2 | I was there for another month , then they sent me to Bullwood Hall . |
| 3 | Then they present them in the accounts as monthly expenses to non-existent scouts abroad , such as Seamus Kelly , a fictional talent-spotter in Ireland , or Henrik Andersson , an imaginary Scandinavian contact . |
| 4 | Then they carried her to a part of the banqueting hall where the flying bugs were no longer ankle deep . |
| 5 | Maybe they simply see the ark as a visible guarantee of God 's presence and of victory , but that understanding of it is no better , for then they turn it into an idol , ascribe to it magical powers , and leave us asking why they did not take it into battle in the first place . |
| 6 | Then they clapped me on the back with too many hands , thrust upon me the plastiform wafer that confirmed payment of the rest of my fee , and proclaimed that they would create a song for the festival in praise of ’ the , most safe and reliable Delmore Curb , master courier ’ . |
| 7 | then they put them on their stomach |
| 8 | ‘ Then they put them in the sun to dry out , and when the meat curls away from the shell it 's put into sacks . |
| 9 | I waited there for what seemed ages , and then they put me in a room on my own and told me to put on a paper gown . |
| 10 | Then they put me in a room and asked me questions . |
| 11 | And when it 's pressed out of the grapes , the juice comes out , they allow it to stand for five days and then they put it into bottles . |
| 12 | Then they put us in the block . |
| 13 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 14 | you see them with A's , they tend to do the A and then they join it at the top |
| 15 | And he cried do you think she would need a worm and he held up a worm , but he came and put this poisoned worm in the mole , you know that 's what they did , they had er mole er worms that had doped with poison , you see and then they dropped them in the hole and that was the end of the mole . |
| 16 | ‘ They thanked me very much and said how pleased they were to be so well looked after , then they kicked us in the appropriate part of the anatomy . ’ |
| 17 | So I just stood there while they shouted " Jolly hockey sticks , " across as her , and then Kevin started them off singing , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … , " ever so softly , to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne " till her bus came , and then they sang it at the tops of their voices as she staggered onto the bus and moved down to the back seat . |
| 18 | Then they took me into a room and told me to take my dress off . |
| 19 | Then they took me to a room where I was in solitary confinement . |
| 20 | Then they took me to where the police found me . |
| 21 | You know they , they ran , they took the nurses , because the nurses home was a mile or , was it a mile or a mile and a half or something from the hospital , they had this , they took them in the morning and then they took them at lunchtime and then all the different shifts coming on and off they took them , and they had the schools run as well . |
| 22 | Then they took us to the Friendship Hotel ( an enormous complex of buildings ) and to a dinner , where we had ‘ hundred-year-old eggs ’ and other things ( actually the eggs are not all that old ! ) . |
| 23 | Then they connect them by ‘ stoping ’ — digging upwards or downwards in places where the tunnels cut through lodes , in the process dislodging the ore . |
| 24 | Then they led us into a building and kept us there , all together . ‘ |
| 25 | Then they asked us for lunch . |
| 26 | Then they told him about Lefevre . |
| 27 | Then they dragged them to the edge of the platform and threw them on the track . |
| 28 | The band was down below and then a loft , a long wooden just like a dance hall up above and they just did that and they just they had tables set and then they removed them for the dances . |
| 29 | Then they called us to our marks . |
| 30 | Then they give somebody like her that single parent girl , Vera , a bloody big double house ! |