Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] then it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goes round like this and then it goes square at the back . |
| 2 | ‘ The game was going OK and then it went up in flames . |
| 3 | But if it does n't hold , at the very end what they 'll do is break in on it ‘ and now the special report from Dan Rather in Baghdad , and then you see Dan Rather and when he 's done there 's a commercial and then it goes back to whatever they were doing on tape . |
| 4 | It was obvious he was good , it was obvious he should be in FI , but somehow he dallied and twiddled and procrastinated and did n't get around to it seriously until he was thirty-six years old and then it took him only three years to become champion . |
| 5 | And they get very uptight if they get erm too much and then it 's reduced rather than the other way round . |
| 6 | Oh yes , you get that , you get that kind of mimicry , but again you 'd expect it in , in , in both sexes I should think , unless it just happens that males for example normally are bigger and then it 's taken on a , a secondary characteristic which is a possibility . |
| 7 | The mate used to get erm on the dredger the tug and the two dumb hoppers , or the dumb hoppers they used to get four pound five shillings a week and erm and my father got five pound twelve and six and then it went so long we were given near the end of the dredger and er in the Harbourmaster 's wisdom he cut us all down five shillings a week , so we get three pound fifteen shillings . |
| 8 | See my nick name in the T A was Vicky , she probably felt save with somebody named Vicky see people started called me van witty and then it got changed to Wicky then somebody started called me Vicky and it stuck , she probably thought I 'd got a You know when I look back now I fucking enjoyed in the T A |
| 9 | Cos you 've probably found that already with maths have n't you that once there 's a little bit you do n't understand they start putting more and more on that you need to know that little bit for and you you do n't know it and you 're getting more and more lost and then it gets a bit late then . |
| 10 | In Orkney , the attack on housing policy was at first personal but then it turned against bureaucracy in general which led officials to being very defensive . |
| 11 | There was this one for twenty five to thirty people and then there was another one for say forty or fifty and then it zoomed up to like a hundred . |
| 12 | Do you know what I mean , it do n't pick it up as loud and then it comes back again . |
| 13 | And they put it on back to front and so she keeps on putting her watch on upside down , she goes and I was feeling dead sick and then it realised it was the stupid cow at the shop with |
| 14 | The early evening had been fine and then it darkened over with thundercloud and got warmer . |
| 15 | but at the beginning of the morning it were cold and then it went warmer |
| 16 | Well that 'd be fine because then it means that you 've got either you 've got your back in |
| 17 | Well it it 's flat and then it comes down . |
| 18 | erm to do both of those and then it works . |
| 19 | The fact that students ask a question about something fairly commonplace and then it happens to me must be pure co-incidence . |
| 20 | Nine and then it goes |
| 21 | the first sheet has not been changed and the first sheet shows the base resource budget which you are being asked to recommend on line twenty one and then it shows a number of savings which can be achieved through efficiency and volume changes . |
| 22 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 23 | and I , I always felt if we have a change onto this er new system of er , of these quilts , I , I you know , I were n't too sure , but once you 've changed I do n't think you 'd ever want to go back because in winter time when it 's a bit cooler and you put more blanket on to keep warmer and then it becomes heavy |
| 24 | half an A four and then it has something like , no more than six or eight lines . |