Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] then it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 2 | ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’ |
| 3 | I nearly run downstairs and then it went into something else and mum said well , keep listening she said and erm it go |
| 4 | It 's , tonight it 's , think of these as a sort of temperature numbers that , try , try these , it starts at plus three tonight and then it drops five degrees , plus three and it drops five degrees , what does it come to ? |
| 5 | erm When the the the job description is signed it ought to be passed by a job analyst just to make sure to check the things that erm it has been done properly and then it has to be signed by the erm job holder , the job holder 's manager and the head of division , and it has to be got to personnel . |
| 6 | These are called poleniers There are two kinds of poleniers one occurs along the coastline of Antarctica and is essentially formed as the strong winds blowing off Antarctica just remove the ice exposing the ocean , and the ice forms in this now exposed ocean very rapidly and then it 's removed by the wind . |
| 7 | Melanie had tried to fill the bath from it only once and then it had exploded with such ferocity that the toothbrushes leapt and quivered in the rack and Uncle Philip 's toothglass had taken a suicide jump from the shelf and bounced on the floor , fortunately without breaking . |
| 8 | Now and then it came into view , wide and smoothly blue , with low reedy islands breaking its shining surface . |
| 9 | The moon was making gallant attempts to shine : every now and then it peeped through a chink in the scurrying clouds , and turned the puddles into little lakes of quicksilver . |
| 10 | Apparently every now and then it did succeed in reaching one of the lower perches , but I never saw it do so and to this day I do n't know how it managed it . |
| 11 | must have got alright and then it 's come back . |
| 12 | So the stuff coming down , goes through there and then it goes into the rest of the tubes , and away through . |
| 13 | Oh come on Christopher come and sometimes it in the right panel , that 's the right panel there and then it goes in the left hand and then it goes to the right hand and then it goes to the left then right , the left , the right , left , right , left , confusing , but it 's that hand to start with |
| 14 | Came down , down the side there and then it went off , what was the name of the village fishing village there ? |
| 15 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 16 | Then there was voices , and then it sounded as if the boot went down and then there was the doors bang again and then it revved off and it was n't long it came back . |