Example sentences of "but then [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but then no-one else does it at all ( re-evaluation ) ; |
| 2 | parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything |
| 3 | You have certain formatted sections that are the news , straight stuff , or running tabular matter or whatever , but then somebody weighs in on each section , at El Sol we have a graphics person on each desk , but they 're divided into work groups so different work groups do different pages . |
| 4 | Slightly but then him and me did n't get on . |
| 5 | But then whatever happened to Summerchild did happen . |
| 6 | Of course , I looked more confident than earlier in the Test , but then everyone did once the ball had stopped turning a yard . |
| 7 | David says : ‘ After it finished , 18 of us from the course decided to carry on meeting but then everyone went their separate ways . |
| 8 | At the moment I can only take the family thing so far : I can talk about certain things , but then everything becomes a blank because I still feel too close to it all . |
| 9 | I do n't want really want Darren , I do n't honestly think , I think I 'd have difficulty in the initial breaking , but then everything else would go |
| 10 | But then one does not have to make friends with people in order to influence them . |
| 11 | He agreed that headhunters were indeed expensive , but then one is , after all , dealing with an expensive commodity — one 's senior personnel — and it is not wise to cut corners on such vital issues . |
| 12 | Sometimes I thought that what was so outstanding was how he taught rather than what he taught , but then one realised that the two were inseparable in their effect , that this was the quality of the medium who spoke to each one of us who was present but who did not selfishly intervene . |
| 13 | It is difficult to foresee any end to the necessity for this task in the immediate future , but then one never can tell . |
| 14 | But then one moves outwards from the internal mysteries of sporting symbolism . |
| 15 | Palaeo-biological precedent dictated such an organ be housed in Gavin 's ample rear , and have responsibility for his lower limbs — not to say urges — rather than his arms , but then one never knew , and I reckoned Gavin 's modest forebrain — doubtless fully occupied with the post-modernist sub-texts and tertiary structuralist imagery of Red Heat — could probably do with all the help it could get . |
| 16 | But then one could say same of Verbier and she has not ruled that out . |
| 17 | But then one must ask what it is the gods want of us . |
| 18 | With thoughts of conservation I can understand this but then one must understand the times when these were being worked and in the 19th and early 20th century this chalk gave a great many people employment and allowed families to be brought up in reasonably comfortable conditions and many of us now owe our very existance to these cement factories , our fathers and grandfathers earning their livings working on them . |
| 19 | I suppose it is unusual for a woman to sell paan and cigatettes but then one has to work to survive . |
| 20 | But then one often comes across other entries to amuse one on the way , such as the record of an enumerator 's problems in compiling part of the 1871 census for Sheffield shown in Table 2 . |
| 21 | But then me and Emma got going and we got a bit drunk and we just said anything and it was really embarrassing . |
| 22 | But then whose achievement had it been ? |
| 23 | Thou twittest me with being a knave and a traitor , but then thou hast a lying tongue … |
| 24 | But then they talked about the North , of Stockton and Teesside , and Macmillan enquired with a warmth of feeling which Ramsey found impressive . |
| 25 | They were OK in bursts but then they 'd stand in on one of their boring , self-indulgent , 20-minute solos . |
| 26 | They were pretty much the style of suits that people wear now — double-breasted with peg trousers — but then they were something of a revolution . |
| 27 | But then they raised the target to 16 then to 18 and so on . |
| 28 | ‘ But then they all say that at this time of year , do n't they ? ’ |
| 29 | But then they fly off to Stockholm and have a couple of drinks . |
| 30 | But then they took it away , said it was blinding him . |