Example sentences of "[conj] then [pron] would [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we 're dealing with the year about eighteen ninety-six onwards , and the filmmakers of this time erm would make this large number of short films , make several in a day if they had the , if the , they had the opportunity and the subjects , and then they would print catalogues of these pictures and market them . |
| 2 | Two others , wearing raincoats over their underwear , would be waiting at the bar or similar , ready to join the fray shouting ‘ Boozebusters ’ and things like ‘ Your wife/secretary/boss is taking you out of here now ! ’ and then they would spray foam , throw cards , pop party-poppers and so on and drag the victim out to a waiting fast car . |
| 3 | And then she would make coffee for my mother . |
| 4 | And then she would tell Peter firmly but gently that it was all off . |
| 5 | She would allow herself a few more hours with him , and then she would practise self-discipline . |
| 6 | Every now and then he would spit blood onto the carpet . |
| 7 | And then I would pour moss killer over it . |
| 8 | That 's fine but sentence six Florence teased Dougal , and did so Brian too does n't sound right but notice that 's exactly what you would get if you could substitute the proform for a subject verb construction and then it would mean Florence teased Brian too . |
| 9 | She had confessed her sin and done her penance , but then she would encounter Sister Matthew John again and the same unworthy thought would pop back into her head once more . |