Example sentences of "[conj] then they " in BNC.
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| 1 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 2 | I entirely accept that if er , four years on we were still doing the same thing that then they 'd be er , some erm , requirement for er , cutting back but I think it is also worth reminding ourselves that due to the action of this conservative government in er , forcing the local government review , er , we are facing the spectre er , of an additional full meeting of this council , and indeed we have had to er , respond to that government initiative . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't know them , Sister , ’ he said darkly , ‘ and if they 're not thinking that then they 'll say I 'm skiving or only coming over here to chat up the nurses . ’ |
| 4 | Through lovers ' brains , and then they dream of love ; |
| 5 | And soon it was trees , and then they parked . |
| 6 | He , like many others , was to learn the truth of the Talmud that , ‘ our passions are like travellers : at first they make a brief stay ; then they are like guests , who visit often ; and then they turn into tyrants , who hold us in their power . ’ |
| 7 | Stones spurted from the horses ' hooves and then they were on a wide stretch of sand , galloping full speed , flying in the face of the wind ; the sea , the sky , the cliffs streamed past Sara 's stinging cheeks . |
| 8 | Tenements were noisy and smelly , and then they left for New England . |
| 9 | No doubt people must study management or business ; but until they cross the boundaries of the social or economic sciences — until the knowledge becomes such as is sought for its own sake and organised to illuminate human life and history — management and business studies are not education ; and then they are management and business studies no longer . |
| 10 | Michael followed him out and helped pile the waste branches into heaps for burning and then they stacked the scattered lengths of the firewood . |
| 11 | ‘ These things happen in families and then they pass , ’ Rose said quietly . |
| 12 | Anyway they were in contact with APEX and then they came to see us , that was on a Monday , the same day there were mass meetings at Chapter Road and Cobbold Road . |
| 13 | Cullam shook one of his daughters , cuffed his elder son on the head , and then they all plunged into the showroom . |
| 14 | They sort of clamber out all clumsy like and then they waggle their tails like a dog and then start cleaning their feathers all quick . |
| 15 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 16 | And then they came for us , and there was no one left to defend us . ’ |
| 17 | Lily 's hand fluttered negatively in her own and a harrowed smile , fleeting as a wind 's breath , stirred her lips and then they stretched back again into a tense , bloodless rictus . |
| 18 | I suppose if one were to wonder about schizophrenia or playing the part too much , it 's like an actor who does a film and the film is very successful and he plays Gatsby in the film , and then they never stop wearing 30 's tennis whites . |
| 19 | The graveside eulogy could be : they came , they suffered , and then they went home . |
| 20 | And then they make you do it — with a gun pointed at the back of your neck . |
| 21 | He bent towards her , saying something , and then they both examined me intently before laughing to themselves and passing on . |
| 22 | Most horses panic , and then they can inflict terrible damage upon themselves . |
| 23 | It was hot , dusty work checking endless fencing and huge flocks of sheep ; so every now and then they stopped at a trough at one of the wells , so that Jester could drink and his owner could splash his face and arms in the water . |
| 24 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
| 25 | In a way , it 's ended up being a good test to measure potentially good relationships against bad ones , because say I went out with someone and at a party they said , ‘ Sit on me lap , darling ’ , and then they said , ‘ Oh God , you 've only got one leg ’ — well , I 'd know they would n't be worth going out with ! |
| 26 | There would be a couple of quick scenes of frenzied activity and then they would cut to a grand finale of Mickey Rooney & Co singing and dancing their way across a barn miraculously transformed into a splendid stage . |
| 27 | By Poindexter 's trial , in 1990 , he thought he must have told the admiral that : he was going to destroy that one , and then they would really all be gone . |
| 28 | And then they killed her ! |
| 29 | In effect , the pieces are jiggled about until the appropriate interlocking surfaces come into contact , and then they stick . |
| 30 | And then they heard a soft voice : |