Example sentences of "then could [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How then could we ever understand the nature and functioning of the whole belt ? |
| 2 | Freire wanted to bring people to a critical awareness of their real situation in the socio-economic context , only then could they really learn and understand . |
| 3 | If she did discover that he was involved in some shady dealing , then could she honestly trust herself to stick to her principles ? |
| 4 | Only then could she really afford to relax . |
| 5 | Once you abandoned the theorist 's armchair and his gloomy study and actually got out there among living tribesmen , then and only then could you really understand what was going on . |
| 6 | He wanted , too , to fly out over Cape Wrath itself , and feel the sea-winds rise under his wings , for his father had said that only then could he truly call himself an eagle of Wrath . |