Example sentences of "but then i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used at times to feel somewhat worried when she would play the supremely confident coquette with me and I would be enthralled by her charms , but then I came to the conviction , some time ago , that such moments of relatedness could only be nourishing for her developing personality as well as delightful to me . |
| 2 | Well I was thinking of walking home from the centre of the town but then I thought to hell with it . |
| 3 | But then I thought on a while and raised my finger . |
| 4 | thought erm that the tissue was growing but then I looked at it last night and it was a bit |
| 5 | But then I asked for just one spell of six months as a locum in some exotic place . |
| 6 | Now I can understand that isolation , but then I felt like the stray cat of Egypt , not only unloved but undeserving of all regard . |
| 7 | When some boys at the school put excrement under the headmaster 's chair , he contrasted the culprits unfavourably with true school sportsmen : ‘ Last Friday I was feeling pretty low when I found out about this lot … but then I went to football on Saturday , there were several lads and teachers there , playing their hearts out or giving up their time just for the school , and then I thought , ‘ Perhaps , it 's not so bad after all . ’ |
| 8 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |