Example sentences of "they [verb] and then [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know I mean they , they do do n't they , they overstaff and then they 've got to cut back . |
| 2 | And those mines , ’ he gazed across at the fells but , true to his wits , in the wrong direction , ‘ they open them up every six or seven years , they take what they want and then they close them down . |
| 3 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
| 4 | In answer to Tamar 's claims that she had no clothes suitable for a visit to the capital , Stephen persuaded her to wait until they arrived and then she would be able to buy something . |
| 5 | They assimilate , they analyze , they consider and then they make a decision or act on things . |
| 6 | We made some changes and they worked and then we made some changes that did not work . |
| 7 | Seneca wrote that ‘ when we want to reach a city or marketplace , we watch where the people are going and we follow them ; but in life we should watch where they go and then we should go in the opposite direction . ’ |
| 8 | And er I joined this territorials they come and then I joined them , and we went to Camp Parkgate for a fortnight . |
| 9 | So we paid that because they wanted and then we had to pay for stock . |