Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.

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1 I kept waving to Mike but he took no notice , and if I hang about here Otley will only ask me to fetch him a slice of ox and then I shall be sick .
2 Then I shall be your God and you will be my people . ’
3 Then I shall be able to take my stuff into Stowbridge , and Brenda to Brownies at the same time . ’
4 And by that time , if Cyprus is still divided , then I shall be too .
5 ‘ If that is the case then I shall be contacting my advisers .
6 Then I shall be driving back to Tbilisi .
7 And then I shall be in diffs . ’
8 All I have to do is to get through the skin of stones and then I shall be in soft earth ( I imagine ) .
9 And then I shall be flung for ever into the River of the Dead …
10 I have good friends , and if I can keep my faculties — if my eyesight behaves itself and my hearing stays good — then I shall be content
11 ‘ I 'm going to get something to eat , then I shall be at the County Hospital with Dr Franks . ’
12 Then I shall be a fright , ’ she answered .
13 Then I shall be happy to take a civilised and modern revenge , ’ said Jared gravely .
14 ‘ If my hair is responsible , then I shall be rid of it ! ’ she cried , and swung aloft the scissors which her fingers had found .
15 If the public needs to be made aware of what 's going on then I shall be the one to do it , and no one … no one will scare me off from reporting the truth ! ’
16 If there 's any way I can make up for what 's happened , Mr Calder , then I shall be only too pleased to do it . ’
17 Well , if we draw stumps and do n't go to them and somebody writes to the Chief Constable and says I 'm very disappointed that your force no longer is gone A L O's then I shall be very happy that that letters received by the Chief because we can say well we told you so .
18 The hour may come within weeks , within days , to-morrow ; and then , before I take the field with the fate of Wales in my hands , I have a need of her and a use for her here ; and then I shall be loosed from this dumbness that binds my tongue , and I shall be able to say to her what needs to be said , and what as yet I can not say .
19 If we finish before then I shall be very annoyed !
20 Then I shall be like this every time something crops up .
21 This may be well , but what if God has seen and death ensue , then I shall be no more and Adam wedded to another Eve shall live with her enjoying I extinct a death to think .
22 It 's only after that that once again she begins to be worried at possible consequences ‘ What if God hath seen and death ensue , then I shall be no more and Adam wedded to another Eve ’ and therefore , of course , ‘ Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe ’ .
23 Then I would be an artisan , quietly learning my trade at the feet of a master and passing it on in turn to my apprentices .
24 The money I was going to save on rent over the next month could be put towards a deposit on something — always assuming the Department of Employment did eventually pay me my due — and then I would be able to start again .
25 Then I would be ashamed , seeing his little body broken on the rocks below .
26 I would sit down on the fishing stool , ready to eat , but then I would be up and down , in and out of the lockers , getting the fork I had forgotten , or the knife to peel the carrot , or even the carrot itself .
27 I felt that if I could get into a regular habit-forming routine then I would be able to keep it up beyond the 30 days .
28 The instruments those guys use are completely different from guitar and I knew that if I could emulate the phrasing of those instruments then I would be breaking new ground instead of just playing the rock phrases that everybody knows .
29 I felt dirtied by the corruption of pimps , yet I would soon be free of them for I had just one more job to do , and then I would be loosed to the consolations of Masquerade and to the joys of the South Pacific 's winds .
30 A shark , then I would be able to really protect the reefs from non-caring tourists , fishermen and divers …
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