Example sentences of "then [indef pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we did , then no-one 's admitting it . |
| 2 | Writing off the gaps on the map will not involve evictions on the scale of Poletown , but then nothing is coming to take the place of the bulldozed blocks ; and sealing one neighbourhood 's coffin might lead to the decline of the other neighbourhoods around it . |
| 3 | Not until after Easter was King Henry well enough to attend a conference , but even then nothing was achieved . |
| 4 | then someone 's hogging all these one hundred pounds ! |
| 5 | If Daine really is dead , then someone 's taken his place . |
| 6 | If he 's dead , then someone is playing a dangerous game , and one that ca n't go on forever . |
| 7 | And then someone was running , lightly , behind her , and she heard someone say in a deep and thrilling voice , ‘ Señorita , espereme ! ’ |
| 8 | If our faith is just a tiny part of us then nobody is going to notice . |
| 9 | Well then somebody 's gon na be short here cos we only got five |
| 10 | So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ . |
| 11 | And then something was coughed out of that blackened spot with a sound like liquid choking ; coughed out from a hole where there was no hole , with such force that the jumbled shape landed with a slap on the corridor floor , five feet from the wall . |
| 12 | An arm was slipped under her shoulders , lifting her ; then something was wrapped round her and fastened at the throat . |
| 13 | If the horse is tense ( the first stage is calmness , remember ) then everything is lost — suppleness , free forward movement and so on , until the whole issue is blown out of proportion … just for the sake of the horse not wishing to pass close to something trivial . |
| 14 | Then everything is swept away in the great flood . |
| 15 | Then everything was forgotten except the moment . |
| 16 | If that was true , when that was proved , then everything was changed , irrevocably . |
| 17 | For , if one accepts a truth-conditional semantics then one is forced to state truth conditions on sentences-in-contexts , or if one prefers ( as Katz would ) that semantics is concerned with aspects of meaning assigned by convention to linguistic forms , then one includes context-dependent aspects of meaning within semantics . |
| 18 | One obvious example is the telephone number that is looked up , the directory closed , and then one is distracted for a moment by someone asking the time . |
| 19 | In fact , it was suggested that if one criticised the policies , then one was seen by government to be destructive . |
| 20 | And that was it and erm so then everybody 's saying so , you know , I 'll come banging on your door and saying what do you think you 're doing , you know , knocking me down to eighty five pounds a week or , or whatever it is and , you know , obviously there were various feedbacks from that and then the summing up of it was , so is that what you 're going to do to the D S S when you , when you retire ? |