Example sentences of "[prep] then [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Time was a confusion , a strange blending of Then and Now .
2 It 's a matter of then where you put that price , either in our fee or invoice directly to the , to the client .
3 There is , then , nothing contrary to the normal operation of language in the proposition that lexical items of high generality like then and now should be given grammatical status as in the examples given earlier .
4 These two photos might seem like Then and Now exercises as on the facing page .
5 If we beat Blackburn we will be only 2 points behind then and have an excellent chance of securing a place in the UEFA cup next year .
6 Not so long ago , a haulage company would send its drivers out into the world with few opportunities to communicate with then until they returned .
7 It would be just done and done with then and there would be no question of not being able to afford it would there ?
8 Traces of all three elements have been found in isolated cases before then so it is perhaps exaggerating to say that an entirely new tradition was invented .
9 ‘ So it was before then that you met Lieutenant Daniel ? ’
10 Steve 's due back tomorrow evening … he 'll have to leave before then but I ca n't think where he 'll go . ’
11 Possibly before then but if I work on that then I can advise you
12 He was quite categorical ; Passmore was there on Friday evening from about seven until closing time , but he had n't seen him for several weeks before then and he has n't seen him since . ’
13 If he was born by then before then and lived in the village his name would be in the censors .
14 Dr Hazel will take up his appointment on 6 August but may be see in and around the Department before then as he gets to grips with his job .
15 Okey-doke And you 'll leave your compositions with me and I will look up , and if I can get the marks before then as I probably will I 'll let you have them back .
16 It revs to the 7400rpm red line , but the driver is usually forced to change up a good 2500rpm before then because it 's all starting to get noisy .
17 I certainly do n't think with the sort of product we have at the moment that there will be any possibility of raising prices before then because I mean , you know , there just are n't any really films which are going to grab people .
18 Is , is he leaving before then or what ?
19 I remember before then when it was really scary .
20 Well if they would let us borrow it , that 's a different matter to buying it from then because we then would n't make any money on it .
21 ‘ The document dates from then and is written in Spanish — or Catalan .
22 ‘ I had ridden Ile de Bourbon for trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton in all of his home gallops and also won on the colt in the King Edward VII stakes at Royal Ascot but when Piggott asked me had the horse made any improvement from then and before the big King George race I had to tell him that I was unaware of it just in case he might want to take over .
23 So I took over from then and er I just ignored what they was you know .
24 I was sure that I 'd be safe from then when I finally emerged from the city on the far side — it was n't likely that rats would abe allowed too close to the Divine Sanctum — but I could n't yet see any sign of a far side .
25 From then until the final three minutes rarely more than one basket separated the teams , as Tigers came back again , until Roberts scored and free-throws from Tom Seaman and Paul James gave Bracknell breathing space at 95-92 .
26 The residents of St Louis and the other three major towns on the coast ( Rufisque , Goree and Dakar ) were granted full French citizenship in 1916 , and from then until independence had full voting rights in French national elections .
27 From then until the final Argentine surrender the story was one of the skill and bravery of the British forces .
28 From then until harvest the size of the flattened areas steadily increases until it totals well over 1ha ( 2.5 acres ) , or about 3% of the wheat area .
29 From then until his death in 1099 at the age of fifty-six , El Cid fought a series of dazzling campaigns against the Moors , taking the fortified city of Valencia and making it an impregnable fortress against his enemies When news of his death reached the rest of Spain , men and women wept openly in the streets , tearing their clothing and lacerating their cheeks in an extravagant display of mourning .
30 From then until about March 1944 , the going was very rough indeed and losses were heavy .
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