Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] then it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 2 | stuff on it and they have to have a pin number , so you put your pin number in and then it tells you exactly how many copies your pin number has copied |
| 3 | they are , she got the forms er but it did n't go and you 'd got to fill them in and then it happened with , but then suddenly she came home one day and she said oh she said I 've got a job |
| 4 | Well I 've turned it down and then it blew out , there , right . |
| 5 | This is about forty foot down and then it drops again |
| 6 | ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’ |
| 7 | Erm in the same way as th the glass in a greenhouse works , that it let's the radiant heat in but then it does n't let so much out , so the heat builds up . |
| 8 | I nearly run downstairs and then it went into something else and mum said well , keep listening she said and erm it go |
| 9 | It 's , tonight it 's , think of these as a sort of temperature numbers that , try , try these , it starts at plus three tonight and then it drops five degrees , plus three and it drops five degrees , what does it come to ? |
| 10 | over and then it tied it and then it was cu , then it fell down . |
| 11 | erm When the the the job description is signed it ought to be passed by a job analyst just to make sure to check the things that erm it has been done properly and then it has to be signed by the erm job holder , the job holder 's manager and the head of division , and it has to be got to personnel . |
| 12 | Yeah it comes on , a comes on and then it shuts down so it 's some sort of shut down fault . |
| 13 | So er once you put the butter on and then it toast it , yeah ? |
| 14 | before she could have the tiles put on cos then it had to be skimmed and then the tiles put on . |
| 15 | These are called poleniers There are two kinds of poleniers one occurs along the coastline of Antarctica and is essentially formed as the strong winds blowing off Antarctica just remove the ice exposing the ocean , and the ice forms in this now exposed ocean very rapidly and then it 's removed by the wind . |
| 16 | See what he 's doing with his fur , look scratching and it 's going off and , he knocks his fur off and then it falls , falls out look at him the |
| 17 | Melanie had tried to fill the bath from it only once and then it had exploded with such ferocity that the toothbrushes leapt and quivered in the rack and Uncle Philip 's toothglass had taken a suicide jump from the shelf and bounced on the floor , fortunately without breaking . |
| 18 | So we took the roof off but then it rained very hard so the walls fell down . |
| 19 | Well the cr the jib went up and then it came down like that , well that swan neck on the cr that used to be what they call level oven , cos as y as you lift your crane out , so this part would come up . |
| 20 | Smoke wisps up and then it explodes in flames . |
| 21 | And if she spoke up and then it turned out to be a mistake … |
| 22 | Where it 's going up and then it levels out and it comes down . |
| 23 | But the , I mean I came home and they were under the hedge they were n't going through but there 's a big piece of netting has come down and it needs erm stitching up and then it needs sewing , not sewing erm |
| 24 | Up until then it had been virtually impossible . |
| 25 | No look if I talk into it quite loud like this it cuts out and then it takes a while to come back on again okay is that alright ? |
| 26 | That 's where the blood leads by , okay , on that side of the heart the left hand side of the heart it 's being pumped and therefore the muscle is a bigger muscle , that 's doing the contracting , the blood push out and it relaxes back again and that allows the blood to be sucked back down into the heart , okay , and the next time it 's shh , that goes out and then it relaxes down again and the blood sucks back down into the heart , okay so that 's what it does , all the muscle can do is that , muscle can only retract and then it relaxes , contract and then it relaxes , that 's what the heart 's doing all the time , how many beats a minute ? |
| 27 | Now and then it came into view , wide and smoothly blue , with low reedy islands breaking its shining surface . |
| 28 | The moon was making gallant attempts to shine : every now and then it peeped through a chink in the scurrying clouds , and turned the puddles into little lakes of quicksilver . |
| 29 | Apparently every now and then it did succeed in reaching one of the lower perches , but I never saw it do so and to this day I do n't know how it managed it . |
| 30 | must have got alright and then it 's come back . |