Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then no-one would have been satisfied , let alone the person who is the victim in all this . |
| 2 | They feel the fighting is justified because their religion is something worth supporting and fighting for because if everybody just accepted what the other said then no-one would have the right to choose and end up with a dictatorship where one person is saying what they believe in and nobody fights back so everybody would end up having to agree . |
| 3 | ‘ I know , ’ Cleg 's big hand covered hers , ‘ but , for your own sake , send your cousin packing or marry him out of the way , then no-one will have room to talk . ’ |
| 4 | If you sit at the White House in the Oval Office and give orders then nothing will happen . |
| 5 | If people are n't interested in , in evaluation of something that concerns them , then nothing will happen at the end of it . |
| 6 | If people are n't interested in an evaluation of something that concerns them , then nothing will happen at the end of it . |
| 7 | In particular , if all assets were equally risky , then everyone would choose the one with the greatest expected payoff to holding it . |
| 8 | But she thanked the Lord that Reverend Morey had n't become a Governor sooner , for then everyone would have known about Angel , and James 's plump and prissy wife might have discovered her husband had fathered a bastard . |
| 9 | I told her about you , and she said to get you to write a romance into your murder , then everyone 'll read it . |
| 10 | Oh why do n't we do cos then everyone can join in . |
| 11 | Then everyone will think I 'm some kind of spy anyway because it 's hardly going to fit in with my cover of being a moron . |
| 12 | Since the construction of these tests is on scientific principles , then everyone will accept , as some law of nature , that large numbers of children and adults are failed and excluded , and thus convinced that they can not learn anything valued by the education system . |
| 13 | If one finds out , then everyone will know and then you will be in trouble . |
| 14 | If a decision has been taken about liability for emotional injury one way or the other , and there can be no controversy what decision that is , then everyone should have a right that that decision be enforced until it is publicly disavowed in the same way . |
| 15 | ‘ Then I shall continue to tease you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If it does , ’ said Donald , ‘ then I shall miss you old chap . ’ |
| 17 | Then I shall speak to the men . |
| 18 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 19 | Then I shall threaten to tell Sikes everything . |
| 20 | Let me get the proper sequence of events , then I shall tell you what I know and the problem will be resolved . |
| 21 | And then I shall inform the Public Prosecutor 's department that I 've informed both of you . |
| 22 | This is my final sentence ; then I shall sit down so that other hon. Members may take part in the debate . |
| 23 | ‘ Then I shall arrange it , ’ said Adam , who had no intention of producing quarterly accounts for this inquisitive journalist . |
| 24 | If they are trying to use me to get something for the museum , then I shall think of something else . |
| 25 | She put her hands against her face , thinking , ‘ I shall stand this for only a few seconds more , then I shall leave . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I am disheartened by C&A 's corporate clothing attitude and have decided that if the sleeve of my record must remain blank then I shall boycott C&A from now on , and my feet and bottom will remain bare until we settle this like grown men . ’ |
| 27 | You are a princess and must therefore marry a prince — you can marry Prince Richard and then I shall marry his brother ! ’ |
| 28 | And then I shall make absolutely sure you are sent to a reformatory for delinquent girls for the minimum of forty years ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Then I shall go , ’ she said . |
| 30 | I 'm simply waiting to see a man about a sailboard , then I shall go home . ’ |