Example sentences of "but then [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then one could say same of Verbier and she has not ruled that out . |
| 2 | But then one must ask what it is the gods want of us . |
| 3 | With thoughts of conservation I can understand this but then one must understand the times when these were being worked and in the 19th and early 20th century this chalk gave a great many people employment and allowed families to be brought up in reasonably comfortable conditions and many of us now owe our very existance to these cement factories , our fathers and grandfathers earning their livings working on them . |
| 4 | But then they may take it and do nothing . ’ |
| 5 | But then they ca n't sell it ! |
| 6 | No , the problem is they 'll be all but then they 'll be secondhand shoes . |
| 7 | But then they 'll and say wait till Thursday till the round , the doctor 's round . |
| 8 | But I think possibly as Philip said his drugs are affecting his eyesight , but then they 'll need , he 'll have to have them tested and , and then , because he was on yesterday about them again |
| 9 | But then they would have to tell shareholders why only half of the consolidated profits of MEPC comes from the 700 properties it has assembled — with the other half provided by the 20 or so Oldham properties . |
| 10 | If the vulnerable organic layers did not exist teeth would not rot so easily but then they would be brittle and would probably break early in life . |
| 11 | But then they would have heard her , surely ? |
| 12 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 13 | And I think Don could read the music too but they 'd be more or less self taught otherwise but then they would have started playing by ear . |
| 14 | They were OK in bursts but then they 'd stand in on one of their boring , self-indulgent , 20-minute solos . |
| 15 | But then they 'd still presumably report back to the main group about what they 'd been doing . |
| 16 | But then they 'd say , ‘ I ca n't stand here listening to you all day ’ , and go off and do something else . |
| 17 | ‘ But then they must truly come from me . |
| 18 | But then they can go away and sing in places where no one works with them and very quickly their talent can become spoilt . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps I can shoot two or three , ’ I said to myself , ‘ but then they will kill and eat me . ’ |
| 20 | But then they will do that to you , that 's , that 's the annoying |
| 21 | But then they should carry on getting better on their own . |
| 22 | Yeah , but then they should n't get it , they should n't do it . |
| 23 | But then they could n't bear the clothes to go in together . |
| 24 | Colonel Mayhew was another , and Canon Devlin , but then they could be excused as being respected elders , as it were , of the community . |
| 25 | but then they could hit you on the head if they saw you 've got it with you . |
| 26 | But then what can you expect from a part-time , middle-class socialist ? |
| 27 | But then what can I do ? |
| 28 | Mrs Browning moved restlessly , cleared her throat , said nothing in reply , but then what could be said ? |
| 29 | But then we would have to find separate words for every action or event denoted by different lexical verbs : a mammoth and unnecessary task . |
| 30 | None of these animals have the sort of intelligence that would enable them to function as successful human beings ( ignoring the physical differences ) , but then we would not seem to have the kind of intelligence that would enable us to operate successfully in their environments . |