Example sentences of "and then there [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach . |
| 2 | In extreme cases all instructions have such unused fields , and then there may be room for two instructions to a word . |
| 3 | Adam only wished Uncle Hilbert had left him Wyvis Hall and then there would have been no Ecalpemos , no Zosie , and no deaths . |
| 4 | Every now and then there would be a rogue stitch , that is , black when it should be white and vice versa . |
| 5 | I 'd get her settled and then there would be some distraction and she 'd start jumping around , or ‘ bating ’ as falconers call it . |
| 6 | They would carve the world up into principalities and then there would be war again . |
| 7 | There would be a concern to clarify the confusion which exists as to the " right " and " proper " principles for the British constitution today and then there would be an attempt to secure them against repeal or amendment except by some specially prescribed procedure that would involve more than a simple majority in the House of Commons . |
| 8 | Then the gardens were befind behind the front row and then there would be another row of cottages behind that again . |
| 9 | And then there would be more trees pl Oh yes , and on either side of this , this pathway , there would also be an avenue of trees . |
| 10 | And then there would be a few more trees around the , the back area if you like of the erm er marketplace . |
| 11 | They 'd just have complained to Mrs Goreng about me , and then there would have been hell to pay . |
| 12 | And then there would be a big , what we called a big shafting , going along the the side of the barn with pulleys on it . |
| 13 | And then there would be the and then and while it would be while the f the coffin was in the house that it was was it ? |
| 14 | Now , if the moon was just part of the earth the moon 's gravity would be adding to the earth and then there would be generally more gravity all round . |
| 15 | But now they 'll have to spare his wool , or they 'll rip off his hide and then there 'll be no wool left to fleece . ’ |
| 16 | And then there might be another little sibling . |
| 17 | ‘ Till we came to the sea , and then there 'd be lighted ships ready to take us across the world . ’ |
| 18 | They did their shopping , ordered their goods , and put down a deposit on them until Christmas , and then there 'd be a grand climax when they all went home . |
| 19 | It may be the pro prospective candidate or panel name to go forward on a prospective candidate or something like that er and then there 'd be er a talk by , by the chairman about the finances or what we ought to do er to organize er events to improve the finances . |
| 20 | I mean er scrap iron , I mean I 've done that erm where we 've loaded scrap iron ships but they do n't do none of that now and when you load scrap iron put so much in on the floor and then dockers would pull it apart and then there 'd then , mean you got ta go and pull a lot of that scrap iron out , load that off , well that the stevedore would say . |
| 21 | And then there 'd be a five , ten , fifteen minute wait and nothing . |
| 22 | In the spring when the f the daffodils and and the snowdrops started coming , and then there 'd be bird 's nests and all the different flowers , the farmers would start sowing , cultivating , mares would have foals , they had the harvest . |
| 23 | And then there 'd be two men in one end of the of a long cow shed . |
| 24 | The erm the the crusher , the hopper was fixed underneath the granary and then there 'd be a little trap-door in the floor or a granary , right above and you could er shovel the the corn , the oats down into . |
| 25 | And then there 'd be clothes for Anne . |
| 26 | Up my elbow and er anyway put it used to take it back to the shop and er well I was still inside the shop , down to a certain place in the shop and put it on a on a stand and then there 'd be a on that stand , beside the bucket , was a a box of not Lux not Lux soap but er yellow soap . |
| 27 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 28 | And there was a Dutch historian , Reneer in London , who used to give lectures in which he made a point of not knowing any dates , and he would say ‘ The Armada came in ’ , and then there 'd be a little row of girls who 'd call out ‘ Fifteen eighty-eight ’ , and then he 'd say ‘ James the First came to the throne in ’ , and they would call out ‘ Sixteen oh three . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Apart from the coaches we are taking , the club has chartered a plane and then there will be those making their own way in private or hired cars , mini-buses and vans , ’ said Dave . |
| 30 | I know that she will send this photograph to the Saxe-Meningen family , and then there will be a terrible scandal . |