Example sentences of "[prep] then [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Laura was very excited too because until then we could only produce two colours but now , suddenly , we could print eight ; it was revolutionary .
2 Until then he would just blend in with the walls .
3 Yeah why not , yeah anything that 's relevant , I mean if it goes on till then we can only use it twice ca n't we ?
4 By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps .
5 This was a disaster , as by then he could barely play and he was retrieved from Naples by a Russian family , who took him home to die .
6 He shot straight at the first one , who fell back into the trench , but by then he could only watch the other three take aim .
7 And maybe by then it would just be too late , and Yggdrasil would n't be here to deal with the situation .
8 They may yet have a marginal impact on the projected two-hour general strike , planned for next Monday , but by then it may already be too late to matter .
9 They may yet have a marginal impact on the projected two-hour general strike , planned for next Monday , but by then it may already be too late to matter .
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