Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] then it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that since then it has been damaging . ’ |
| 2 | It was strange now , walking through the same streets , to know that by then it had already happened . |
| 3 | Months later it had arrived in the post and since then it had stood in its velvet frame , beside her mother 's bed . |
| 4 | In 1973 the industry came under national control and since then it has expanded from nearly 44 000 ha to more than 70 000 ha and employs more than 22 per cent of the island 's labour force . |
| 5 | Its present form dates from the 1920s and since then it has been tested and explored rigorously ( though not without problems ) . |
| 6 | Manager Michael Sheridan said , ‘ The Branch became an instant success with customers when it first opened its doors on 28 April 1868 and since then it has continued to build on its reputation . ’ |
| 7 | The last wolf was shot in west Germany as far back as 1846 and since then it has been registered as extinct . |
| 8 | But the first version of 1-2-3 for Windows was late , slow and buggy and since then it 's been slow to gain acceptance . |
| 9 | But of course they were quoting at the very top of Leamington 's rate , and since then it 's gone right down . |
| 10 | I had previously caught two individuals of H. tricolor in the Malaise trap but until then it had not been recorded in Britain although it was known from Germany and Japan . |
| 11 | I do n't want to get Grant into trouble , but until then it does n't go to the fishes . |
| 12 | But since then it had failed to hold its own against big American firms such as DEC — both in sales and in technical performance . |
| 13 | It was dragged kicking and screaming into Big Bang in 1986 , but since then it has seemed pretty effective , in the main . |
| 14 | For at least twenty years after the Second World War most people supported the welfare state but since then it has come under attack from all sides . |
| 15 | But but but since then it 's got worse . |
| 16 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 17 | I would have liked to wear it thirty years later when I travelled in the deserts of southern Arabia , but by then it had been lost . |
| 18 | The concern known since 1873 as the Gutehoffnungshütte A.G. was by no means the largest in the Ruhr , but by then it had extended from iron-founding into quarrying and mining iron ore and coal — it produced practically all the 215,000 tons of iron ore and half the 415,000 tons of coal it required — and had diversified into transport , rolling and the construction of bridges , ships , and a variety of machinery . |
| 19 | From the UK 's viewpoint , the time was right in 1949 as by then it had the productive capacity to take advantage of the added price competitiveness in dollar markets which devaluation would provide , while needing to rely less heavily on imports from those areas . |