Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb past] [pron] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |
| 2 | ‘ I told him to go jump in a lake , ’ Ellen said very calmly , ‘ and then I told him that just as soon as I 've finished with the Crowninshield twins I shall be sailing away — ’ she clinked her glass on mine , ‘ with you . ’ |
| 3 | Then I told him that our concern is to find and follow God 's pattern ; and that God is strongly at work here , with a strategy more effective than the politicians ' . |
| 4 | so , then I told him that I 'm not doing it any more . |
| 5 | But then I told myself that I would only have been his mistress , in a foreign country , and for a short time , until he grew tired of me . |
| 6 | Then I told myself that I was lucky — lucky to be alive , lucky to have food and tools , lucky to be young and strong . |
| 7 | But then I told myself that those were idle fancies . |
| 8 | Then I told myself that it was the state I was in and somehow I pulled myself together and came home . ’ |
| 9 | Then I reminded myself that I create my own reality ! |
| 10 | After that came my Marx and Schweitzer phase but I started getting greedy and wanting them all rolled into one and then somebody told me that we 've got to learn to love ourselves , so I tried that but it seemed a bit selfish . |
| 11 | Then you reminded yourself that they were a bunch of gilded pederasts who spent what little time they could spare from betraying the country 's secrets in stealing the Security Service 's territory , influence and share of the Secret Funds . |
| 12 | ‘ Then you showed us that the cuts were not made when she was stabbed . |
| 13 | So I signed , and then she said something that rocked me back on my heels . |
| 14 | Then she told me that during the last winter , while I was in Sweden , my father had already had an attack , but they had not told me . |
| 15 | But then she told me that Arthur was in love once before , and that it ended unhappily . |
| 16 | They married in a great hurry and then she told him that by marrying she 'd lost her 50 a year ! |
| 17 | Then she told us that there was a hut behind the hospital where the patients lit a fire and cooked their food . |
| 18 | But then she reminded herself that Miguel had entrusted her with his secret , and there was no way she could even explain her unhappiness to anyone . |
| 19 | Then they told me that the police had found the murderer . |
| 20 | Then they told me that its companion had just died — it was older — so I rather think it was depressed and lonely . |
| 21 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 22 | Then he told himself that he was a nut who had written a book in her garage , and that he had no right to intrude . |
| 23 | Then he told her that he loved her . |
| 24 | And then he said something that struck me as rather strange : ‘ He 's made up his mind now . |
| 25 | There was a silence and then he added something that stayed in my mind more than the chains , more , in fact , than anything else he had said . |