Example sentences of "then i [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps , if I am strong , then I am scheming like a man ? |
| 2 | If I say one morning while looking out of my window , The sky is blue , then I am using this sentence deictically . |
| 3 | Then I am going to lay you on my bed and stroke every care and worry from your mind . |
| 4 | ‘ Then I am going to fetch some water . |
| 5 | Then I am going to sleep by the fire . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm off to the US next week and then I am doing an extended tour of the US and Canada . |
| 7 | If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own . |
| 8 | Then I am standing in Aisha 's house with its Moroccan furniture and Moroccan smell , hardly able to believe that I 'm in London , having braved the customs official who turned my passport over and over in his hands . |
| 9 | Then I were talking to our Karen to about quarter to three |
| 10 | And then I were coming home and I were , I were really awful . |
| 11 | But , even then I was thinking that we might , in actual fact , start looking at attainment target one and certainly fill in , you know |
| 12 | He got up out of bed and then I was thinking then he had a sneaky feeling that he tried to get out the door . |
| 13 | By the the time I was 28 I had achieved dad 's wish and then I was dabbling with point-to-pointers . |
| 14 | It was about then I was trying to move towards some really simple guitar pop and even some slightly more outrageous playing . ’ |
| 15 | and then I was trying to come out and I started to pull out into a gap and Brian said oh know , do n't pull out I said oh okay , he said the thing is your fairly tight so your gon na have to come out slowly so you need a bigger gap than otherwise . |
| 16 | But then I was riding the curve of prejudice . |
| 17 | that 's the perfect time and I had this sort of doubt in my mind erm then I was fortunate I learnt a co a very good scripted presentation for getting referred leads and once I started to actually ask , cos that 's all it comes down to , erm then I was getting three , four , in the end I was being quite clever and saying look if you just restrict them to three then I 'll give them the same good service I reckon I 've given you this service |
| 18 | By then I was hearing wedding bells , and not only for Old Red and Margaret . |
| 19 | I only went once to visit the Greens and then I was collecting money for the Missionary Fund to which most people contributed a copper or two , with young Mrs Thwaites from the neighbouring farm to us , High Birk Hatt . |
| 20 | Then I was slamming into Elk 's Club Surf , still sliding left , still fighting for balance , for everything and anything that would keep me upright . |
| 21 | By then I was wearing a pair of mandroid 's boots , a size too large , and a lot of small medi-strips and healant salve on my other burns . |
| 22 | And then I was coughing for ages then mum goes oh you , I go oh , I feel terrible ! |
| 23 | And then I was dozing a bit and while we were watching like Arachnophobia we were we were still in bed but about four hours sleep just about . |
| 24 | I was in the most exquisite kind of agony , unable to think of anything but making love to you , and then I was pushing your skirt up and getting my face slapped . |
| 25 | At first , I was angry ; then I was living a new life — other things to think about , other people to consider . |
| 26 | And then erm I was at home for a while , and then I was living with friends in Birmingham , and in , in between time I 've been to Leeds and London . |
| 27 | And then I was using it more or less daily for years … . |
| 28 | And I thought blimey , he 's a mongol , you know , when you 're looking at them , and then I was looking at the nurses and waiting for everyone to say something , and nobody said nothing . |
| 29 | But when I looked down , I saw the board was all made of bones and wire ; and I screamed and you said , " Swim — everybody swim " ; and then I was looking for you everywhere and trying to drag you out of a hole in the bank . |
| 30 | then I was looking at all the garden stuff , and and I thought well , start by the , and I thought I 'm doing a Joey ! |