Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ It has to be done because it 's the law but there will be a lot of ill feeling if farmers take all the responsibility for clearing the land and then no-one uses it . ’ |
| 2 | George : ‘ If you prefer 2,000 years of art history , whereby if you have an exhibition for nudes , then everyone assumes it must be women , that 's fine . |
| 3 | Then I grew it out |
| 4 | then I grew it out and then it was all brittle still so I had it cut . |
| 5 | And they 're coming I do n't think I 'm taking for a couple of months , and then I take them every fortnight . |
| 6 | Well then I take it she is n't here . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Then I take it Dr Greene was n't too concerned ? ’ |
| 8 | Right then I take it the minutes of the last Annual General Meeting haven been circulated already ? |
| 9 | and then I take it all erm , I start doing them regularly , I think it 's probably a tax you know some for the tax that they did , spend a lot of money |
| 10 | So then I crossed it out and put Geneva . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd been avoiding me , I knew he had , then I met him and he said it was time to finish , ’ Maureen wept . |
| 12 | I must admit I was getting a trifle worried but then I met them . |
| 13 | I was engaged to be married once , an engagement that was a mistake and I was lucky to get out of without too much trouble and then I met you and that is the sum total of my ‘ sexual demands ’ as you put it . |
| 14 | Then I brought it back and went out again with a blank canvas and that also is finished . |
| 15 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 16 | He saved my life once , ’ Wellington somehow managed to sound disapproving of both achievements , ‘ but if I had ten thousand like him tomorrow then I warrant we 'd see Napoleon beat by midday . ’ |
| 17 | Then I wind them into balls and put them in the oven to dry , and that 's how I come to have all those woollen articles to sell . ’ |
| 18 | Then I discovered he could n't read music . |
| 19 | Then I discovered you were with the chief , being ticked off , ’ he said mischievously . |
| 20 | ‘ Nicole comes into the workrooms , selects the cloths , and Kylie makes the decisions and then I make them to order , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I wait until it fills itself and then I swat it , the blood splashing over my hand . |
| 22 | And he got upset , so I ended up having to bring him downstairs , give him his lunch first and then I put him to sleep in his pram this is all since the weekend this |
| 23 | I brought him downstairs give him his dinner and then I put him to sleep in his pram in the front room , but I think that 'd also er |
| 24 | that 's all grown from leaves , just put the leaves in water and the little shoots come on them and then I put them in after some , when they 've got their little roots on them and they grow , that 's , that 's one I 've grown from , from just leaves and one in over there in the window I 've grown from leaves . |
| 25 | I carried mine , then I put it in my pocket and further along the route I gave it to someone in the crowd . ’ |
| 26 | When I come to paint , I like to look at the drawing ; then I put it away and do n't look at it again , because I do n't want even the drawing to influence too much the progress of the painting . |
| 27 | How is it then I put it this way . |
| 28 | I put the small boat on my shoulders and carried it to the edge of the water , then I put it in the sea . |
| 29 | I took it out of the bed and stared at it , then I put it on the table beside my bed and put out the lights . |
| 30 | for dinner and dinner parties so I 'm sort of frantically trying to cut down , and then , you know , one dinner party and then I put it |