Example sentences of "then [pers pn] would [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she would bring me the diaries of a grand-duchess and the poems of the Hapsburg princesses . |
| 2 | Then we would tell her the same story , in the same words , like a folk-tale : the ride on the motorway , the meal in the restaurant , her going to sleep and waking up to see sheep on the Derbyshire hills . |
| 3 | Well they used to send you , th they used to get the returns from your employer and then they 'd send you the demand note in , so then |
| 4 | They should all get up at five in the morning , then they 'd see what the world looked like without them . |
| 5 | Now the boatmen they used to erm the name , the family of a name of , and the old man , the grandfather his name was and then they had three sons who were boatmen , one was called Arthur John , one had a nickname of Snowball , the other one 's name was George and they used to er , some of them at times used to row from the lock gates out to the Cork Lightship together to get a boat , so they made sure of roping that boat in at , at er in the dock or at Cliff Quay and course they used to get the captain of the ship to sign er a bill and they used to take that to the , to the shipping agent and then he 'd pay 'em the money . |
| 6 | I mean slap not just sideways with his hand and then he 'd give you the strap after that . |