Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one final thought — if I ever come across any Crenicichla species ‘ Xingu III they would fit very well into my tank , with the Uaru , and then I would really have a dream come true ! |
| 2 | ‘ Then you 'll probably know a friend of mine . |
| 3 | I trust you , you 're not a fool , you know what could happen if you got up to some mischief out there , ’ and her fingers described general obloquy with a sweeping gesture of abolition , ‘ and then you 'll never get a husband either . |
| 4 | Then you may well find a lot any extra memory . |
| 5 | If title-page and the information on the reverse agree as to date , and there is nothing to indicate earlier editions , then you may well have a ‘ first ’ . |
| 6 | If you reach the stage where you are playing national tours , then you will also have a lighting crew , more sound technicians and maybe even wardrobe staff . |
| 7 | If your works scheme is contracted in to SERPS and you want to contract out , then you can also have a personal pension — but only to have somewhere to put your SERPS rebate . |
| 8 | But then you can really have a mortgage for that . |
| 9 | right , you 've made yourself a , your , twenty thousand anyway , then you could probably buy a , a nice little two bedroom bungalow |
| 10 | If someone is shielding her then she 'll probably have a bed for the night . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Then we would probably have a mandatory defence , which we would not duck , and then come back for a third defence against Bruno . ’ |
| 12 | We used to go walk round and shopping and then we 'd go and have a cup of coffee and then we 'd both catch a bus . |
| 13 | If we are alert to textual detail — and all studies of the reverberations of imagery in the Miller 's Tale tell us that it is a tale that encourages us to be so ( see below ) — then we can also find a suggestive parallel between Absolon 's inability to detach himself entirely from the vulgarities of the human world and the Host 's failure to impose an elegantly hierarchical structure on the tale-telling competition . |
| 14 | Hit a 1-iron short of the bunker , then we can probably hit a 4-iron in . |
| 15 | However , if the US wins , and imposes an old-fashioned pax americana , then we can confidently predict a rematch in the future . |
| 16 | If it 's jewellery it 's harder , it will show up , erm if you 're marking things like engagements rings , then the best thing to do is actually take photographs of them with a ruler or some sort of erm comparison of the size of the item cos if you do like a a ring on a photograph it 's gon na , it 's gon na come out like a , so if you got a ruler to say , you know , it 's only sort of one and a half inches in width or whatever , then we can actually get a clear picture of , of that . |
| 17 | If one takes a broader view of economies of scale along these lines then one must also take a more differentiated view of the large-scale enterprise . |
| 18 | Yeah , then they 'll all have a go at her . |
| 19 | And then they 'll all have a shock when they do n't get a piece . |
| 20 | If multiprocessing desktops are on the agenda , and all indications are that they will appear later — ie next year — rather than sooner , then they 'll definitely use a higher performance PA RISC 7100 part ( currently at 99MHz ) that HP will first introduce in a new uniprocessor system . |
| 21 | At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports . |
| 22 | If multiprocessing desktop machines are on the agenda , and all indications are that they will appear later — that is to say next year — rather than sooner , then they will definitely use a higher performance Precision Architecture RISC 7100 part ( currently at 99MHz ) , which Hewlett-Packard will first introduce in a new uniprocessor system . |
| 23 | Ooh well they used to well they did n't used to sing a lot of songs but er they used to do a lot of you know playing about and perhaps and then they 'd perhaps have a ball . |
| 24 | If a black hole has entropy , then it ought also to have a temperature . |
| 25 | If a teenager has been feeling acutely depressed for some time , then it may only take a trigger such as exams , to tip her over the edge ( suicide is the third most common cause of death among the under 25s , and the peak months are April to July ) . |
| 26 | ‘ If it is a gesture , then it must always have a meaning . ’ |
| 27 | The normally small scabious scabiosa columbaria flowers in July and August , but if we have a wet spell now after a dry summer , then it could well flower a second time . |