Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [vb mod] be [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would sit down on the fishing stool , ready to eat , but then I would be up and down , in and out of the lockers , getting the fork I had forgotten , or the knife to peel the carrot , or even the carrot itself . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll just speak to the bigger ones , then I 'll be back to ring the doctor . ’ |
| 3 | The Angel of Death looks in and he says : ‘ You 've got five minutes to get your clean nightdress on , and arrange your effects , and put the cat out , and tear up that compromising letter , and then I 'll be back for you . ’ |
| 4 | If I 'm lucky then I 'll be back with some decent results before anyone knows that I 'm gone . |
| 5 | ‘ College in the morning and then I 'll be back to wait at lunch . ’ |
| 6 | Then I 'll be off so you can catch up with yourself . ’ |
| 7 | You sit still there ; I 'll make us a drink , and then I 'll be off . ’ |
| 8 | I 'll just take a drink , then I 'll be off . " |
| 9 | ‘ Then I 'll be off ! ’ the friar boomed . |
| 10 | ‘ Then I will be off . |
| 11 | If you were n't blackmailing me with that threat to set the press on me , then I 'd be out of that door in half a second flat ! ’ |
| 12 | Then I should be off , so it 's working Thursday again . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll bring the spells down to you , and then you 'll be off and away . |
| 14 | And that 's why we need as much information about Tony so that his friend will recognize him , ring through and then you 'll be in touch him . |
| 15 | ‘ Then you 'll be in at the start , with the broken nights and the four-hour feeds and the nappies which need to be constantly changed . ’ |
| 16 | somebody homed in on one and then you would be back on your scaled fee for the |
| 17 | If your answer is just print out nicely justified text with the spelling checked then you may be in for a surprise . |
| 18 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 19 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 20 | This means climbing the whole route in the dark , and since an efficient descent on frozen snow should only take four hours , then you should be back at the Couvercle Hut sipping beer by 11am . |
| 21 | Well they were usually a line of kids standing along the wall or something and one set out in the middle of the field and then you had to touch them and then you 'd be back to the wall and they had to do it . |
| 22 | It would probably please him if she went to prison , because then she would be out of his hair , and he would be free to amuse himself to his heart 's content with his pretty , blue-eyed doll . |
| 23 | It might get into the papers , and then she 'd be down here knocking on my door and screaming blue murder . |
| 24 | If we win them three games that we got in hand then we 'll be up to about sixth place . |
| 25 | We 'll just get your things together , then we 'll be off . ’ |
| 26 | And then we 'll be off . |
| 27 | I 'll say goodnight to the child , then we 'll be off . ’ |
| 28 | And , then we 'd be up , usually up and down |
| 29 | I think if the committee did that then we 'd be back to what five or six years ago , when a whole afternoon was spent on that and I would n't commend that to you , but can we perhaps have a word with the officers at a later stage , take it on board what both Graham and Anne have been saying , and obviously not trying to do that in a meeting like this but try to prepare for it a month before-hand . |
| 30 | And we 'd be pouting away and arriving about five minutes past one and then we 'd be in for trouble then . |