Example sentences of "then [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Give him another drink , Ellis , ’ he said , ‘ and then let's vote him out of our club for being sanctimonious . ’ |
| 2 | He said , grinning again , ‘ Then let's hope he 's taught you how to behave . |
| 3 | ‘ Then let's hope you will be able to sort something out . |
| 4 | ‘ Then let's tell them . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Then let's say it was I who felt embarrassed ! ’ |
| 6 | If you are really a ‘ rebel ’ band then let's see you stop posing and start offing a few pigs . |
| 7 | Which basically says , if Friday Sunday school works , then let's have it . |
| 8 | Alistair said , ‘ Then let's kill her . ’ |
| 9 | Go on then let's hear your Irish one . |
| 10 | If we 're going to put something in then let's keep it as general as possible . |
| 11 | If we really want to fight AIDS then let's turn our anger on the newspapers who spread lies and distortions ; on a government that refuses to put money into AIDS education and research and those drug companies that appear more interested in patents than cures . |
| 12 | The organisation is highly democratic , for lay readers are elected and then must consult their members in decision-making . |
| 13 | What differences follow , for example , from the young Elvis Presley starting out from printed song-copies but slowly transforming them in lengthy sessions in Sam Phillips 's Sun studio , as against Lennon and McCartney taking mostly orally worked-out ideas to George Martin who then might transform them through literate methods — for instance , the addition of written parts ? |
| 14 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 15 | and then could bring it another day , or |
| 16 | He would then pack them in wooden barrels , till he had a truck load , and then would send them direct from Plowden Station to the dye works where they were used . |
| 17 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 18 | Luther would wait until dark , when the rest of the family had vacated the kitchen , then would take everything from the larder , spreading it on the table , spilling it on the floor , and generally inflicting mayhem on a hitherto spotless environment . |
| 19 | Ill-defined THE BITER then can consider himself to have been bit , if not torn up and mutilated . |
| 20 | and then he can get the computer he wants without moaning and then can get everything done in the bedroom without worrying about it |