Example sentences of "[pers pn] then [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes you do go on tell i what have I just been telling you then that you need to concentrate on that I think you should be concentrating on . |
| 2 | But now , talking to Joan , seeing her changing expressions , he asked himself how it had been so — apart from their dress , it seemed to him then that there was after all no strong likeness between them . |
| 3 | I told him then that when we came to England we 'd be staying at this hotel . |
| 4 | His breath ragged , his eyes near wild , he stared at her , and it came to him then that he wanted it all : the house , the money , and Theda , too . |
| 5 | She had told him then that her body was all she had to offer a man . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you never going to forgive me for that ? ’ he queried , and there was such bone-melting charm in him then that Fabia was glad that she was sitting down . |
| 7 | If anyone had told her then that one day she would join the royal family she would have run a mile . |
| 8 | For it seemed to her then that he was aware that her thoughts were troubled and , when he had no need whatsoever to put himself out , he had decided to take her mind off them for a brief while . |
| 9 | A moment 's fear smote her then that he might leave it at just one kiss , and with more daring than she had known she possessed she leaned her lightly clad body against him . |
| 10 | Mr but you must have therefore suggested it to them then that er the service charges needed to be updated once a year |
| 11 | But it was absolutely clear to me then that I had n't the political antennae , the political flair . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , if anyone had told me then that one day this company would be performing Shakespeare , I 'd have thought they were mad . |
| 13 | It seemed to me then that I wanted everything , a whole new world , but could define no part of it . |
| 14 | It had n't occurred to me then that it might be me who was wrong . |
| 15 | Why is it then that the film fails to deliver ? |
| 16 | Why was it then that he could n't remember where she had been shot ? |
| 17 | Why was it then that she almost envied the girl ? |
| 18 | Why is it then that these halls have been recalled with so much pleasure in so much twentieth-century writing ? |
| 19 | How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease ? |
| 20 | Why is it then that we have no difficulties in practice in observing magnetic fields ? |
| 21 | Why was it then that , even from the first moment , the thought of Lorrimer in his sister 's bed had been intolerable . |
| 22 | You got until the Saturday to pay it , but if you paid it then that let you get the turn of the leaf and get more stuff for the next quarter . |
| 23 | Why is it then that he refuses to acknowledge that the defence is bad and needs improving ? |
| 24 | ‘ I take it then that you neither have children of your own , nor indeed a hotel , ’ she said now , with more than a slight trace of sarcasm . |
| 25 | ‘ I take it then that you have also come in for your share of press flights of fancy ? ’ |
| 26 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 27 | It appeared to us then that the scheme which allows us to hand back a large proportion of the business rates was not widely known . ’ |