Example sentences of "[conj] then [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the speaker 's main intention was to communicate information about temporal order , she would be more likely to use a temporal connective such as before , after or then than to use a causal connective . |
| 2 | I was just about to say that then if he had n't have got in there I was . |
| 3 | Of enormous significance is the fact that when the feedback is negative such that then and the overall gain is virtually independent of A ! |
| 4 | It becomes abundantly clear from these accounts that then as now , family support was a two-way process , and that responding to a crisis could result in intense friction as well as in deep affection . |
| 5 | except then if you 're writing off for money to places like Telecom and it 's a national logo |
| 6 | I suppose I could have thought from the little he 'd said up until then that my half-brother was dead , or ill , or that something had happened to him , but I knew then it was something Eric had done , and there was only one thing he could have done which would make my father look worried . |
| 7 | Killeavey player Mark had held the dangerous Gallagher in check up until then and now hopes to impose an even greater stranglehold on the stocky corner forward in the replay . |
| 8 | And , no , they had n't done anything racist up until then and I goes casually , do you like Bob Marley ? |
| 9 | And then since we have a real life Duke in the house , what about an apparent ad lib ? |
| 10 | Oh yeah I mean they were good company to go out with and I said to you at dinner time and then since they 've joined us , so we was all the same |
| 11 | Eve knew the battle had to be fought and won there and then before the other students arrived . |
| 12 | You do it once , twice , as a special gesture , to please them , and then before you know it , they expect it , week in , week out and grump if it does n't happen . |
| 13 | In the morning and then before you go go to bed at night . |
| 14 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 15 | They had been sitting at home ( unheated , before Anna put in the plumbing and the armchairs ) with cousins and priests coming to black coffee now and then while the prince was out on his horse or at the club . |
| 16 | To make the colours fade into-each other , apply the paint and then while still wet make gentle brush-strokes across the area where the colours join . |
| 17 | and then while he was upstairs seeing and helping his wife , then the the stove blew up downstairs , now that might have been the house saving from a real disaster whilst attacking his wife in a minor way , or it might have been pure coincidence . |
| 18 | And then while I was there she was eating a bit of chocolate cake , I mean she 's right in the kitchen , she come back in and said oh my god , I said what , she said I 've never seen anybody pinch a bit of chocolate cake , on a plate as fast in all my life , Ben did n't want it so she whipped his an' all like . |
| 19 | and then while I 'm away |
| 20 | ( c ) He must normally make a record of the search there and then unless this is impracticable . |
| 21 | And then once all the acid was in if you left the tape open what would happen to the gas ? |
| 22 | round the ten every happens to everyone they work you know ten twelve is the obvious one to go for the go eight nine ten twelve fourteen and then once you do it you do n't realize you 've done it and you do n't stop . |
| 23 | And then once you 've got that it does n't matter what it does n't matter if they 're asking to make fifty three point five or whatever . |
| 24 | And then once some specialist railway training comes along , we 're arguing that we do n't need it . |
| 25 | You do n't notice it a and then once you do , every time you wake up , it 's there . |
| 26 | In future it may be possible to bring out a first novel in paperback , and then once an author is established we could bring out his or her second and third novels in hardback . |
| 27 | It takes three months to commit even a simple one to memory , and then once you 've used it , pouf ! it 's gone . |
| 28 | And then once she was up , you did you have your power station already built ? |
| 29 | That was right through and then once they got it right through , they cut the big chamber then . |
| 30 | I told him that I was going to come forward er and handcuff him and then , then something along the lines of er not to move er and then once he was down on the floor , erm I holstered the weapon into my own holster . |