Example sentences of "then [pron] be [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I used to be Harry Maxim , then I was me and Jenny , and now I just do n't know and it 'll take more than lemon tea and a pink silk handkerchief in my sleeve and reading Goethe over breakfast to tell me .
2 And then I 'm I 'm a bit
3 But if a stately progress to the other shore and back will serve your turn then I 'm your man .
4 ‘ If it 's quality you 're looking for , then I 'm your man .
5 And if you can do all that with her husband just a few feet away , blissfully unaware that he 's the butt of the joke , then yours is his house and everything that 's in it , old son .
6 Oh , I 'm not suggesting that these groups , if they come together and mix will cause problems , I 'm suggesting that if there is only one kind of person that 's attracted to a particular site and that type of person happens to be socially irresponsible , then then you 're it 's a recipe for disaster , is n't it ?
7 Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know .
8 I 'll go and get the car and then you are you ready , or what ?
9 Then you end u then you was you were really in the army .
10 But then she 's you know , otherwise hers .
11 Then she was herself again .
12 Then she was herself again , brisk as she went on .
13 If she wants to continue our private battle , then who am I to stop her ?
14 Then who is his father ? ’
15 " Then who is it for ? "
16 ‘ If you 're not a policeman , then who are you ? ’
17 Then WHO ARE YOU ? is printed ( the question mark comes from the comma ) and W$ is input , then NAME is printed and R$ is input ( no comma — no " ? " ) .
18 cos you 're saving on the coal then we 're you know
19 If we do not care , then we do not love , if we do not love , then we are nothing .
20 Then there are our wines — unexpectedly oaky , full-bodied and marvellous .
21 ‘ Ah , Wilson , ’ Miss Hawarth had said with a smile , ‘ the keeper is more important than the house and then there are your connections , you know . ’
22 THEN THERE ARE MY COLLEAGUES IN THE ‘ bass ’ world .
23 Then there are his photographs of the starving Sudanese ; Marie Helvin naked , stiletto-heeled and sheathed in bandages ; Catherine Dyer in the bloody throes of childbirth ; more recently , Denice Lewis dancing in the South of France in the Pernod ads .
24 If , on the other hand , your cat is one of the deaf ones , then there is nothing you can do to help it .
25 The circulation of air round a depression usually has ‘ fronts ’ or areas of rain associated with it , and when birds , which navigate by being able to see the night sky , meet with a barrier of rain and bad visibility then there is nothing for it but to drop down to the nearest land and wait until conditions improve .
26 But if the idea of some indefinable menace frees your imagination , then there is nothing to stop you producing a suspense novel every bit as twanging with tension as a story in which someone is left hanging by one finger over a depthless gorge .
27 It was a crass question — and an honest answer — but then there is nothing to say that very clever people ca n't be stupid when it comes to everyday human exchange .
28 Er then there is nothing I can say to change your mind .
29 It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done .
30 If obedience to the Law takes precedence over human need then there is something wrong with the Law .
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