Example sentences of "[coord] then [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the speaker 's main intention was to communicate information about temporal order , she would be more likely to use a temporal connective such as before , after or then than to use a causal connective . |
| 2 | And then since we have a real life Duke in the house , what about an apparent ad lib ? |
| 3 | Oh yeah I mean they were good company to go out with and I said to you at dinner time and then since they 've joined us , so we was all the same |
| 4 | Eve knew the battle had to be fought and won there and then before the other students arrived . |
| 5 | You do it once , twice , as a special gesture , to please them , and then before you know it , they expect it , week in , week out and grump if it does n't happen . |
| 6 | In the morning and then before you go go to bed at night . |
| 7 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 8 | They had been sitting at home ( unheated , before Anna put in the plumbing and the armchairs ) with cousins and priests coming to black coffee now and then while the prince was out on his horse or at the club . |
| 9 | To make the colours fade into-each other , apply the paint and then while still wet make gentle brush-strokes across the area where the colours join . |
| 10 | and then while he was upstairs seeing and helping his wife , then the the stove blew up downstairs , now that might have been the house saving from a real disaster whilst attacking his wife in a minor way , or it might have been pure coincidence . |
| 11 | And then while I was there she was eating a bit of chocolate cake , I mean she 's right in the kitchen , she come back in and said oh my god , I said what , she said I 've never seen anybody pinch a bit of chocolate cake , on a plate as fast in all my life , Ben did n't want it so she whipped his an' all like . |
| 12 | and then while I 'm away |
| 13 | ( c ) He must normally make a record of the search there and then unless this is impracticable . |
| 14 | And then once all the acid was in if you left the tape open what would happen to the gas ? |
| 15 | round the ten every happens to everyone they work you know ten twelve is the obvious one to go for the go eight nine ten twelve fourteen and then once you do it you do n't realize you 've done it and you do n't stop . |
| 16 | And then once you 've got that it does n't matter what it does n't matter if they 're asking to make fifty three point five or whatever . |
| 17 | And then once some specialist railway training comes along , we 're arguing that we do n't need it . |
| 18 | You do n't notice it a and then once you do , every time you wake up , it 's there . |
| 19 | In future it may be possible to bring out a first novel in paperback , and then once an author is established we could bring out his or her second and third novels in hardback . |
| 20 | It takes three months to commit even a simple one to memory , and then once you 've used it , pouf ! it 's gone . |
| 21 | And then once she was up , you did you have your power station already built ? |
| 22 | That was right through and then once they got it right through , they cut the big chamber then . |
| 23 | I told him that I was going to come forward er and handcuff him and then , then something along the lines of er not to move er and then once he was down on the floor , erm I holstered the weapon into my own holster . |
| 24 | My job was er to actually open the door and then once the door was open the team would enter the flat and I together with P C , would er cover the hallways inside the flat . |
| 25 | What we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work . |
| 26 | Thinking about the various stages you go through and then once you 've reached the level of department managers at , on a lot of issues you tend to be at this stage but it 's important to remember that a number of your staff may be down here somewhere . |
| 27 | erm so I mean what I did with my final year project was actually try to write something which was very sort of wide ranging and broad which sort of was like a first dr draft of an introduction and then once I got more data |
| 28 | And then once I suppose he would n't make it in the house would he he would have it made and brought to the house . |
| 29 | Er yeah well all , all those things er and I thought the , the diagram was marvellous and you sort of to start with you , you were thinking ahead to doing this diagram and you could see that that 's what you were waiting to do and then once you did it you were up and running . |
| 30 | And then once Helen and that had woken up that was about half eleven she woke up and then it like , oh , our provisions and then we started talking and everything else together like |