Example sentences of "but then [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Surely you do n't actually believe all that stuff in the papers about how it was so much better in the old days , but then they got in a bunch of yuppies and ruined it all by going down-market and yoof-crazed , do you ? |
| 32 | But then they got into trouble . |
| 33 | Er but then they got an upstairs as well . |
| 34 | But then they got their own van and they did most of them , er but then again they they a called on us and said Can you come and do a little job for us ? |
| 35 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 36 | But then they twitched again and I looked down to see , just above the sill , the curls and bright blue eyes of a snub-nosed child . |
| 37 | And erm but then they 'd all Margaret and erm everybody had jumped on the bandwagon and said , . |
| 38 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 39 | But then they looked again and saw that these particular passengers were all standing up facing their way . |
| 40 | But then they looked again and saw that these particular passengers were all standing up facing them . |
| 41 | But then they went up and did a whole loada stuff for the miners . |
| 42 | But then they had realized that that would mean their Dad was all alone and so they had prayed again , that they could all be together in one place or the other . |
| 43 | At first the going was so firm that they could travel comfortably at 50 miles per hour , but then they had to head north and traverse what is known as the Grand Sea Erg . |
| 44 | But then they had n't been alone for any time before . |
| 45 | But then they had a habit of melting into society , and in the meantime many had been the expensive guests of the German taxpayer . |
| 46 | They did n't but then they had |
| 47 | But then they had a cycling club , at chapel , and so we tended to go Saturdays , and then I started walking and youth hostelling . |
| 48 | But then they had to come back and resume their lives . |
| 49 | But she remembers the Co-op having its first shop just , still in High street , but half way down , but then they had this prime position right on the corner , you know and it was a marvellous , a good Co-op I always thought . |
| 50 | A lot of them of course went to the quarries , but then they had a little steamer called the Florence Cook and she plied wherever she went and you probably know where she went . |
| 51 | But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line . |
| 52 | But then they had n't seen the blood , she reminded herself . |
| 53 | But then they said this Casey was a cop . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ At one point we thought we had got an agreement but then they said they did not want any conditions at all attached to the application . ’ |
| 55 | but then they said work , they wo n't let them , the money that they 've got on council houses , they wo n't let them spend it you see that ? |
| 56 | Er , for some purposes er other groups are excepted as as part of the Romany , for all the purposes they 're not , but then they said , it depends if it serves their interest to say we 're the true gypsies and they 're not |
| 57 | But then they 've always got the threat of er er er I mean at the moment there really is n't that threat is there ? |
| 58 | They did it very well , that I 'll grant them , but then they 've had plenty of practice . |
| 59 | but then they 've got er er said they they asked if they could rent his house off him until they got themselves sorted out . |
| 60 | Well there used to be just me but then they 've employed another one and we were so fed up with being on nights that we said look , I 'm afraid we 've had enough of this , you know so she I said to her how about you allocate us each to a ward you see |