Example sentences of "then he [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A and then he would either have an official invitation or should hear no more about it . |
| 2 | God I you could never tell if you 're , you 're going to be there long enough in job , if the , the boss did n't like you then he would just say well you 're , you 're paid off and that 's it , so that 's sort of benefit of keeping your union membership up you could go to anywhere where there was a trade union , a union membership and get a job . |
| 3 | Until then he would just blend in with the walls . |
| 4 | He was still a good two hours from being drunk and even then he would probably manage to drive home without attracting unwanted attention . |
| 5 | If a person bought a ticket for the cinema then he would probably have an irrevocable licence for the period of the film ( Hurst v Picture Theatres Ltd [ 1915 ] 1 KB 1 ) . |
| 6 | If the Summoner was abroad , then he would soon be followed . |
| 7 | Then he would suddenly realize that the typing had ceased . |
| 8 | Maybe he would continue to ride pointlessly around the forest of Haling Heart until he died in the saddle , and maybe even then he would still ride pointlessly around . |
| 9 | I saw the look the malai doctors gave each other and I knew then he would never see again . |
| 10 | But he had stopped short of throwing them out , because then he would only be punishing himself . |
| 11 | He would just came and went into the yardmaster 's office and had a word or two with him and then he would maybe ask to see the staff local representative and the local committee . |
| 12 | Yes , and then he 'll probably remember you for that . |
| 13 | ‘ If any youngster coming into football can put as much enjoyment into his game as Mickey has done , then he 'll probably play as long . |
| 14 | ‘ Then he 'll surely expect some sort of explanation from me , ’ Harry said quietly . |
| 15 | He cries in his sleep — God dammit — for my mother and if they take her away too then he 'll just turn his face to the wall and fade away . |
| 16 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 17 | I know but he can probably be nice like that but then he 'll just change and become all cool when he wants to be |
| 18 | If the auctioneer is a party to the seller 's conduct then he may also be sued . |
| 19 | Moreover , if Richard discussed peace on the assumption that he would be the heir to all his father 's dominions then he may well have re-activated very real differences of opinion which had lain dormant since the spring of 1185 . |
| 20 | So if we can do something that may trick the would-be burglar into thinking there 's someone in , then he may well go somewhere else . |
| 21 | If the innocent party is the buyer and he has not paid then he may simply refuse to do so and return the goods if he has already received them . |
| 22 | Then he may still not vote for his preferred alternative if there are positive net costs to voting . |
| 23 | Perhaps the policeman had looked into Erlich 's face and calculated that if he had not stood aside then he might just have ended up on his back . |
| 24 | It is true that even then he might still be acting in the course of his employment , but we must take it that this curious piece of metaphysics exempts the employer from vicarious liability for this particular tort . |
| 25 | Then he could jolly well get on with things — and came out into the passage . |
| 26 | Peter Roebuck might not have looked 13 in 1969 , but then he could well be taken for less than his 36 years now . |
| 27 | This was a disaster , as by then he could barely play and he was retrieved from Naples by a Russian family , who took him home to die . |
| 28 | If such a program detective had descriptions of all the high-level languages ever written , and knew them to be all there were , then he could presumably work through them all in turn ( the obvious difference from the human brain case being that , even if it has a high-level programming language we have no idea what it could be like ) . |
| 29 | If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind . |
| 30 | He shot straight at the first one , who fell back into the trench , but by then he could only watch the other three take aim . |