Example sentences of "[conj] then i [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I thought I would wait until I heard you arrive , and then I knew I should be all right . ’ |
| 2 | He 'd been glaring and smashing down glasses on the table and muttering under his breath and I wondered what on earth I 'd done to make him so disturbed , and then I realised I had n't done anything . |
| 3 | ‘ I THOUGHT I was still standing and then I realised I was on the floor . ’ |
| 4 | And then I 'd I 'd had enough and then he started messing about and he started pushing the boxes down through my strapper then , course that messed the strapper up ! |
| 5 | Instinctively I turned away , and then I realized I was walking in the opposite direction , then running , almost tripping over my own two flat feet . |
| 6 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
| 7 | And then I thought I would write and suggest that she should suggest herself to tea one day and not only did she have the effrontery to do so but she brought her husband . |
| 8 | And then I thought I heard voices once , coming from a long way away , but I could n't work out where they were coming from ; and they were so very faint I almost thought I 'd imagined them . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll give you a hand until the rush dies down and then I thought I 'd get on with the account orders for tomorrow , ’ she said casually , but the girl gave her a strange look , and Folly had a nasty feeling that her voice was n't as fully under control as she had thought . |
| 10 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 11 | Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm |
| 12 | And then I thought I 'd really put my foot in it and embarrassed both of us |
| 13 | You know , she came home and she was watching television and I bought some Bourbon biscuits round and then I thought I 'll have one with my cup of tea and now there 's three left ! |
| 14 | And that she she looked shocked , you know , she did n't did n't know me like , and er , well she was shocked , and then I said I said , right well we 'll have to get together and sort something out about stopping with her , and Pete said straight away . |
| 15 | and then I said I 'd give her a ring . |
| 16 | So I take my time , not asking if he wants Cellophane gift-wrapping but just doing it really slowly and then I say I done the VAT wrong . |
| 17 | But when I pressed O it turned out W but you know as we 're typing and all of a sudden you 've pressed O , and then I say I press W I got W up but no O. |
| 18 | Er I do a plug the alb of the album Midnight Postcards we call it , I 'm plugging that now until Christmas , promoting that er on television and radio , and I er in between I go on a short holiday to Africa and then January I start Alfie until May , and then I think I 'm gon na do a T V movie or a movie in June July , and then in end of July I go to America for four four till the end of November with Alfie . |
| 19 | And then I think I want to ask you people the question , ‘ What is it that you do which is potentially interesting to the world ? ’ okay ? |
| 20 | I had intended to go to Downing Street , but then I thought I could n't bear it if old Chamberlain came out waving a bit of paper and smiling his death 's head smile , so I just lay down in the park instead . |
| 21 | ‘ Initially I planned this simply because I wanted to go from coast to coast , but then I thought I might as well try and raise some money for the hospice which is on my beat . |
| 22 | Yeah but I , but I cos I can see the arguments but then I mean I 'm just not , I 'm not entirely sure whether i i it could n't work , that it could n't work being a middle peasant economy and that these erm these inequalities would er sort of |
| 23 | But then I realised I had n't played one bad shot and I thought ‘ what have I got to fear ’ ’ . |
| 24 | right but then I knew I told you where |
| 25 | At first I thought I was out shopping with Marie , cos of all the people and cars and that , but then I remember I 'm lost . |
| 26 | But then I got I mean if you said right we 'll get a yeah , a or something right ? |
| 27 | I went over budget but then I expected I would . |
| 28 | Yeah , its within your budget and you 've done well , I went over budget , but then I expected I would , because for one thing I was buying for more . |
| 29 | ‘ He shot too early a couple of times , that was his problem , but then I think I shot too early sometimes , too . |
| 30 | But then I decided I had broken enough hands tonight . |