Example sentences of "but then [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have certain formatted sections that are the news , straight stuff , or running tabular matter or whatever , but then somebody weighs in on each section , at El Sol we have a graphics person on each desk , but they 're divided into work groups so different work groups do different pages . |
| 2 | But then whatever happened to Summerchild did happen . |
| 3 | David says : ‘ After it finished , 18 of us from the course decided to carry on meeting but then everyone went their separate ways . |
| 4 | Of course , I looked more confident than earlier in the Test , but then everyone did once the ball had stopped turning a yard . |
| 5 | At the moment I can only take the family thing so far : I can talk about certain things , but then everything becomes a blank because I still feel too close to it all . |
| 6 | Sometimes I thought that what was so outstanding was how he taught rather than what he taught , but then one realised that the two were inseparable in their effect , that this was the quality of the medium who spoke to each one of us who was present but who did not selfishly intervene . |
| 7 | But then one does not have to make friends with people in order to influence them . |
| 8 | I suppose it is unusual for a woman to sell paan and cigatettes but then one has to work to survive . |
| 9 | But then one moves outwards from the internal mysteries of sporting symbolism . |
| 10 | Thou twittest me with being a knave and a traitor , but then thou hast a lying tongue … |
| 11 | ‘ The police were searching the whole area but then they seemed to realise that it must be the van . ’ |
| 12 | But then they began to climb up a narrow , spiral staircase , and she saw no more . |
| 13 | At first , they enjoyed looking out of the windows , but then they became sleepy . |
| 14 | But then they become curious and try it . |
| 15 | Raith Rovers are hardly world beaters but then they haf a little help from the referee who gave them a dodgy penalty and turn down two good penalty appeals in the last two minutes . |
| 16 | But then they tend to get promoted and move on to other things . |
| 17 | But then they tumbled the following year , crashing by 31 per cent when measured against the price of manufactured goods . |
| 18 | Anxiety fluttered deep inside her stomach , like thousands of tiny moths , but then they rode in through the north gate of the city and the clamorous bustle of the narrow , crowded streets assaulted her senses . |
| 19 | The main road used to come here and the ferry took you over to the north side of the loch , but then they up-graded the way round the loch from a track to a road and the ferry stopped . |
| 20 | But then they took it away , said it was blinding him . |
| 21 | But then they took the pins out , |
| 22 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |
| 23 | But then they came in , rolled up the carpet , cleaned the floor , put plastic mats down , told us to have a shower and gave us clean clothes and clean sheets . |
| 24 | She had done all the house out and got all the presents and everything , but then they says I could n't have him or see him . |
| 25 | But then they raised the target to 16 then to 18 and so on . |
| 26 | But then they bring up the story of a great uncle who was infected with French ideas and took to drink , and so they insinuate I shall do the same . ’ |
| 27 | But then they dried up and the last seven of his 31 caps came as substitute . |
| 28 | But then they come back . |
| 29 | The police come along and things go quiet for a couple of months but then they come back again . ’ |
| 30 | One night there was a little backdrop of a painted garden , and in front of it two new boys were doing a strip routine to the original ‘ Let's Stay Together ’ ; but then they got carried away and ended up just leaning against the wall together , leaning up against the painted flowerbeds and the little painted bridge , just kissing and making love right there , for at least forty minutes , nobody minded . |