Example sentences of "then you [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And then you forced them on her .
2 Clean it up and then you take him in the .
3 You go to the pantry , get on your hands then you take it into the dining room
4 But , as I said , that only lasted for a couple of weeks , then you write something like Brazilia Crossed With Trenton ( from ‘ Workbook ’ ) and you say , well f**k Hüsker Dü and f**k anyone else who does n't like it …
5 Cos if I lose twenty eight pound then you , then you sponsor me for
6 ’ I just get guys saying , ’ Hey man , I love that film where you bit that guys neck and then you shot him in the head and his brains went spilling all over your face .
7 And then you dragged him to the altar , or was it the registrar ? — I 've never had an account of the joyful occasion — and then you came back up here , and-you thought you 'd be Queen of Oswaldston , with your little private income , and your nice stone house , and your upper-class ways . ’
8 And so there was er old age pension , state , there was nothing then you know nothing at all .
9 Then you 've nothing to be afraid of . ’
10 Yeah , yo you get out a bank loan to do it , and then you ask for it , then you ask them for money for Christmas , to pay it back off !
11 First you mix the dough , then you pat it into shape , like a figure in a Nativity crib , with all his fingers , and little fingernails , you make them with a toothpick , and his face , not forgetting ears and nostrils and eyebrows , and you put in his navel , making a little indentation , and you roll some dough for his thingamajig . ’
12 And then you get lots of other unwelcome knocks on the door — one man who says he 's looking for number 11 , another who says he 's a taxi-driver who 's come to the wrong house — and he probably is but his timing is enough to make you rush about panicking and locking the place up like Fort Knox .
13 And then you had one at Pinmill , now they 've got erm the in there in that book now , well that was called Point , one or two of the old names are there like Deer Park Lodge and the river in Foxes Bottom .
14 but then you left him for an American carpenter .
15 remember get them out just before you go and then you put them in your freezer when you get back .
16 Yeah , cos like if you 've got three Ss or something then you put one at the bottom of the pack and keep the card if you 've got an
17 Then you put it on the window sill for people to admire so heaven knows how many went that way . ’
18 Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle .
19 We buy a nice little time manager thing , with little pink elephants in it , and goodness knows what , and we spend eight hundred pounds to get something to tell us how to time manage , and you really get enthusiastic about this for three months , and then you put it in the drawer and go back to your diary .
20 Then you strip it of its bark and , while the wood is still green and supple , you bend back the thin limbs and bind them in place with string , When you 've done that you have to leave it on a drying rack above the fire for … oh , I suppose about three months .
21 Then you evaluate it against your own particular conception of what makes a DTP package .
22 Oh you cook and then you break them off the rest of them
23 You just need the bike to turn a little bit and as soon as it 's spinning it turns just enough to where you can pick the bike up and then you nail it off the corner . ’
24 I see , you criticize my appearance , and then you stab me in the back !
25 Two there 's the one with Judith and I and then you join us for the last session .
26 and as you do n't have anything to do with the decorating anyway I do n't know what you 're peeved about you like it before and then you like it after , and you 're quite content to let me do the bit in the middle .
27 And then you pour it into the bowls
28 The monotony is relieved somewhat if you have the opportunity to talk to a fellow traveller who feels the same about long train journeys , then you have something in common besides moaning about the rigours of train travel .
29 You used to have your castings from there and then you have them off Ernie
30 If you want one type of match one or another then you specify them in different rows .
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