Example sentences of "then [pron] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I could just get on with living . ’ |
| 2 | If you did n't all want to go , you know you do n't have to go , but then I could just take maybe ten or fifteen of you , but how many will be interested in going to the one in the summer in this lovely out-door theatre ? |
| 3 | Well I think if I could ask James to help on the geographic spread of the profits overall and then I could perhaps supplement that afterwards on the oil services . |
| 4 | He was right , I did have to stand on tiptoe and even then I could hardly reach . |
| 5 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
| 6 | If yours is the kind of garden that is attractive to hedgehogs — lots of cover , plenty of natural food and close to other good habitats — then you could well find your offer of a house taken up this winter . |
| 7 | For example if you spent four thousand pounds on the hardware , then you could well spend fifteen hundred or two thousand pounds on the software . |
| 8 | If they are a member of the public in a road accident case , then you could just approach them direct as you would any other witness . |
| 9 | If you have n't got it then you could just , er other people just could be nice when they marry you and say that it |
| 10 | Then you could just pinpoint them all |
| 11 | You used to And then you could also go to the local farmer 's and take away a quart jug , for two penn'orth of skimmed milk . |
| 12 | You would n't expect much speed out of it , but then you could confidentially run it over any terrain without adverse effect . |
| 13 | right , you 've made yourself a , your , twenty thousand anyway , then you could probably buy a , a nice little two bedroom bungalow |
| 14 | If there is make up on from the first erm removal , then you could then take off the make up with the first application and then go over twice more , so it would be three times if you 've got quite a lot of base or foundation on . |
| 15 | But as far as that 's concerned , er I mean the , the house can be passed over to you , and would then become , er you would own the house but er unless you dispose of it , there 'd be no liability to a gain , and er of course , at that time er if your parents in it rent free at the time of their er leaving the house , then you could then dispose of that without erm erm er liability . |
| 16 | You could be you could be lured into a position where if , if the management had you by the tails , thinking along the same line , then you could never be an efficient , you know , negotiator . |
| 17 | If you knew what the combination of circumstances were , then you could perhaps re-do your spreadsheet with a different way to avoid it . |
| 18 | And then you could perhaps tinkle the ivories . |
| 19 | Mr Grayson replied : ‘ If we can assume that the same degree of care is taken in all countries showing — and I think it is true , certainly , of Switzerland and West Germany — beech observations , then you could certainly say that the health of beech trees reflected in crown condition must be borne out by observation . ’ |
| 20 | Then you could like start attracting , I think , younger people to read newspapers again . |
| 21 | well then , then you could really , would be , I 'll always start on , you could go down the police station and have a word with them , see what they think , and they 'll probably put you in touch with somebody , cos they know everything they know what |
| 22 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 23 | So then you could actually say something like that , the item purchased is , check that it 's suffice to your requirements . |
| 24 | By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps . |
| 25 | Then she could always pretend it was a nightmare . |
| 26 | Then she could actually see what was going on in the family , which was that her mother was servicing her father , who just looked out of the window most of the time , psychically speaking , while the siblings got on with their rivalry . |
| 27 | I 'm gon na suggest to you that er if w if we 're going to think about channels of communication then we could arguably divide up inter-personal communication to three broad sets of channels so it will will be familiar to some students already I think , er but not certainly not to many second years . |
| 28 | We 've got some soup so we thought well we can make some of that up in the morning then we could just warm it up for the dinners |
| 29 | ‘ I felt that if the game had gone on for just five more minutes , then we could even have won it . |
| 30 | My own belief , which is shared , oddly enough , by the head of the CIA , William Webster , is that sanctions would have eroded his military capacity so much that , given another nine months or so — assuming we has used that period for more flexible diplomacy , which we notably failed to do — then we could either have got him out by negotiation , or we could have promoted a situation inside Iraq in which he could n't fight . |