Example sentences of "[conj] then [vb base] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was therefore tempting , and usually easy , to import excessive quantities of goods and then resell them at a profit to local merchants , " from whom " , wrote Callières in 1697 , " they receive a tribute , for lending their names to defraud the Sovereign of his dues " . |
| 2 | I said I 'm on a YTS , she went oh she said I do n't know if you 're for them , I said er well if you do n't I 'll find out and then tell you at the she goes , yeah , we 'll do that she says but I do , I do n't know if owe have to pay for them or not , you know she said I think you 're supposed to have a form . |
| 3 | If the helicopter is moving , to stop it you must apply an opposite control movement and then remove it at the precise moment that the helicopter stops . |
| 4 | Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year . |
| 5 | Fujitsu and Hitachi have made no effort to leapfrog IBM by introducing entirely new machines , for this would defeat the plug-compatible strategy : to let IBM create the demand and then meet it at lower prices . |
| 6 | Tell them what you 're going to tell them before you tell them , and then summarise it at the end and tell them what you told them . |
| 7 | To overcome this waste , I sow several hundred extra brassicas in the greenhouse in March ( cabbage , red cabbage , brussels sprouts , cauliflower , and broccoli ) , bed them out at four-inch spacing in the vegetable garden in early May and then transplant them at two-foot intervals into the headlands after horse-hoeing in June . |
| 8 | Or did you imagine I did nothing else all day but case joints and then rob them at night ? ’ |
| 9 | She just puts March ninety eight and then leave it at that . |
| 10 | If anybody wants to employ them , they should know before , and then employ them at their own risk . |
| 11 | Thank God for dome tents with two bays : you collect snow from one end for tea , pass it through the middle-man , and then deposit it at the other end . |