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 . |