Example sentences of "then [pron] [modal v] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she thanked the Lord that Reverend Morey had n't become a Governor sooner , for then everyone would have known about Angel , and James 's plump and prissy wife might have discovered her husband had fathered a bastard . |
| 2 | ‘ Then I shall continue to tease you . ’ |
| 3 | Then I shall threaten to tell Sikes everything . |
| 4 | ‘ If you keep to your promise — to behave yourself in future when I have guests — then I shall try to keep to my promise . |
| 5 | But I know , too , that if it is a dry day on Saturday then I shall have to do it all over again . |
| 6 | And I am going into the light and I am going into time , and if I am to save the world , then I shall have served the world , and if I do not save the world , then at least I shall have tried . |
| 7 | ‘ Then I shall have to keep reminding him , ’ said Evelyn with gentle determination . |
| 8 | Then I would want to find someone more senior like Hannah Collins or Alison Wilding or Susan Hiller or Helen Chadwick . |
| 9 | My colleagues may offer their opinions on the latter ; I can only assert that the first accusation is nonsense and if the allegation is true then I would love to know more about it but , regrettably , my request for further information has been met with silence . |
| 10 | ‘ But I made a decision that I would not do it beyond the age of 35 , and then I would return to try to make a contribution . ’ |
| 11 | As he explains : ‘ If I can successfully transfer what I believe to be management skills applicable to any discipline , then I would hope to follow a career path that will ultimately lead to directorship within an operations environment . ’ |
| 12 | Then I would emerge to survey the scene . |
| 13 | Then I would help to cheer them up , but I would n't cheer them up if they did n't want to , I think that 's wrong . |
| 14 | But my studies go on , Music GCSE is just one of the nine exams I take next May ( 1994 ) , then I would like to do ‘ A ’ -level music , and hopefully , Music at University . |
| 15 | I have a meeting with your production manager , and the wardrobe department , and then I would like to meet Fräulein Aschmann . |
| 16 | Did you watch the v video when the the terrier men having a fox fought for its life , okay to have killed it there and then I would have accepted . |
| 17 | And then I would have made my own judgement about her death . |
| 18 | I mean , then I would have achieved something definite . |
| 19 | If I had been asked to decorate a flat to reflect McIllvanney 's character then I would have given him an East Belfast bar with sawdust scattered on the floor , King Billy strutting on the walls , and blood splattered across its tobacco-stained ceiling . |
| 20 | Clearly if I had been aware that we were going to be talking about the merits of other routes , then I would have prepared a different statement . |
| 21 | If he had n't , then I would have to retire ! |
| 22 | Now had it actually been infidelity — me having watched said movie from the back row of the local Ritzy with my bit on the side at my side — then I would have deserved whatever was coming to me . |
| 23 | Accordingly I formally move it , but if the a that acceptance is not forthcoming , then I would have to deliver my speech . |
| 24 | If men naturally enjoy mathematical stimuli more than social stimuli then I would have thought they were at least equally well equipped to deal with the socially isolating position of working at home — and possibly better equipped to deal with everyday geometrical shapes such as vegetables , kitchen sinks and washing machines . |
| 25 | Well it might be , but I mean if we carry on on our present system then I would have thought there was too much travel for one person to be covering the whole of the area on the way we 're presently using Sarah , cos she does |
| 26 | ‘ Then I would have to think again , ’ he confessed . |
| 27 | If I had wished to create a hard and more definite edge or accent then I would have had to ensure that everything was dry . |
| 28 | I suppose if the doctor had got his diagnosis right , then I would have had to go to hospital but it was to be another ten years before I was sent to such a place . |
| 29 | ‘ That was because I assumed that the business would go to Francis and then I would have had no say in it . ’ |
| 30 | Ken , would you say though that erm one or two recent announcements connected with these judgments , I think including the er the judge in a recent M C C case which actually went I think against the administrators , b on shares but actually the judge said if the argument had been made that er these assets were held er on a trustee basis , then I might have made a different decision . |