Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] then it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The game was going OK and then it went up in flames . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Do you know what I mean , it do n't pick it up as loud and then it comes back again . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | The early evening had been fine and then it darkened over with thundercloud and got warmer . |
| 10 | but at the beginning of the morning it were cold and then it went warmer |
| 11 | Well that 'd be fine because then it means that you 've got either you 've got your back in |
| 12 | Well it it 's flat and then it comes down . |
| 13 | The fact that students ask a question about something fairly commonplace and then it happens to me must be pure co-incidence . |