Example sentences of "but [prep] then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ability to see beyond the short-term impact to the bigger picture and where the real risks are is vital not only in evaluating the cost of possible outcomes but in then categorising the risks . |
| 2 | I urge the assembly to accept this amendment to depart from this statement , to commend to our churches the use of the apostle 's creed and to wait for a day of broad theological agreement which in the providence of God and by the work of the holy spirit will surely come and then agree upon a statement of faith which we shall all agree and be able to commend enthusiastically to the church but until then to depart from this one . |
| 3 | He had done his initial research on jane Austen , but since then had turned his attention to topics as varied as medieval sermons , Elizabethan sonnet sequences , Restoration heroic tragedy , eighteenth-century broadsides , the novels of William Godwin , the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and premonitions of the Theatre of the Absurd in the plays of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 4 | He had done his initial research on Jane Austen , but since then had turned his attention to topics as various as medieval sermons , Elizabethan sonnet sequences , Restoration heroic tragedy , eighteenth-century broadsides , the novels of William Godwin , the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and premonitions of the Theatre of the Absurd in the plays of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 5 | According to Winston Churchill junior , until his mother married Randolph Churchill at the outbreak of the Second World War , ‘ she had never been even a penny in debt , but since then worries about bills and people threatening to sue had been endless . ’ |
| 6 | With one-upmanship , I told them it was near Lebanon , Smith County , Kansas , but since then have been told I am wrong . |
| 7 | On New Year 's Day they briefly topped the division , but since then have lost players and impetus . |
| 8 | On New Year 's Day they briefly topped the division , but since then have lost players and impetus . |
| 9 | I did some Medau in London before the war but since then have been thwarted by a lack of classes in this area — but — I am always hopeful . |
| 10 | It grew to its current size by selling mainframes in the 1960s and 1970s but since then has seen a decline in this business . |
| 11 | The health of Britain 's rivers improved between 1958 and 1980 but since then has undergone a rapid deterioration . |
| 12 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |