Example sentences of "then [pron] [modal v] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To which he , Wittgenstein , replies , ‘ But if it meant that , then I ought to know it , I ought to be able to refer to the experience directly , and not only indirectly . |
| 2 | And then I used to bank I used to post put that in the post office in a separate account , I did n't use it you see . |
| 3 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 4 | Then I used to feed her and I did n't let her have any water when she was hot cos that give them colic , you see , sometimes . |
| 5 | then I used to scrape it at night when we 'd finished . |
| 6 | If there has n't been an historic massacre there , then somebody ought to organise one , or at least a bit of a tiff , to do justice to its shadowy , sombre sentinels of cliffs . |
| 7 | Then you used to build it in a stack and then you used to take it in the barn and thresh it . |
| 8 | And then the the the store cattle they were in big open yards during the nights and then you used to let them out and eat these off er a grass field in Win i in in in in the daytime . |
| 9 | Then you used to build it in a stack and then you used to take it in the barn and thresh it . |
| 10 | And then you used to mix it up with bran and oats and cake and that sort of stuff , for the horses . |
| 11 | Then you used to chop them down this way with a cleaver . |
| 12 | And you used to be ab well you used to be able to over the flames of the fire on one side , and then er a saucepan on the other on the in one side with your vegetables in one side , with your potatoes in and then you used to have your oven with a for your meat . |
| 13 | Carrie said slowly , ‘ If you really do hate it here , then we ought to tell someone . ’ |
| 14 | I 'll phone up and then we ought to get you something . |
| 15 | And then we used to call them because that 's where we were feeding them do you see . |
| 16 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 17 | And then we used to feed them on these rakings there do you see . |
| 18 | And then we used to fence it half . |
| 19 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |
| 20 | And a chain there and we used to tie her to this chain so that she could get into the box and out again , and then we used to put the cubs there first in the straw and then we used to put her there do you see . |
| 21 | Yeah , no it 's a play get the jobs done and then we used to deliver them back again up the street and one of us used to go in , I used to divert to Derby |
| 22 | And then we used to trim it and er a hat there made of just the straw with a band and bow was over three pound which was a lot of money in those days . |
| 23 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 24 | And then they used to put them in er er small boxes out in the field and er I used to go round in the woodlands and cut some you see , put them in the ground with a small branch on them and then we used to make some string and loops out of erm wire to go round their feet you see . |
| 25 | And then they used to leave it and let us wait and this that and the other you know . |
| 26 | And then they used to keep you in the Winter more or less and the visitors making up So it was s a steady trade all round . |
| 27 | Then they used to have their which was a cup of tea at ten in the morning and then having their tea at four . |
| 28 | The water for drinking they used to collect from the gutters and erm it used to go into big barrels and then they used to boil it for a long while . |
| 29 | And that 's where he moved from here over the road and after then he used to have his own , see , he had a slaughterhouse built at the back , see , he done away with the slaughterhouse down the piste and he used to kill all his stuff there . |
| 30 | So then he used to segregate them : they go over there , and they go over there . |