Example sentences of "then would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which then would make |
| 2 | Merton , the lightning-quick deadpan potato-head who would always claim someone in the crowd shouted ‘ porn ’ as a suggested film style and then would do 25 jokes in as many seconds which had nothing whatsoever to do with sweaty shagging . |
| 3 | I can remember the long cloudless days when we drove for mile after mile over desert that stretched out around us as flatly as an unruffled sea ; the way we would pull the throttle out so that the needle stood up straight at the figure forty , and then would laze back with our legs stretched out across the bonnet … . |
| 4 | It acted as a centralised design studio for all carpet factories in Russia , sending out infrequent batches of new designs , which only then would enable a manufacturer to change . |
| 5 | The aversion argument was extracted from its literary context and elevated into a full-blown defence of crudity in the Oz case : " One of the arguments was that many of the illustrations in Oz were so grossly lewd and unpleasant that they would shock in the first instance and then would tend to repel . |
| 6 | Or , they could have their developmental pathway specified before they begin migrating and then would migrate to the correct sites . |
| 7 | He periodically became very bloated and had severe abdominal pain due to retention of faeces and then would pass very large amounts in extreme pain . |
| 8 | He could hold in his motions for two weeks and then would pass an enormous quantity under great strain and pain . |
| 9 | If left sitting on a chair she would pick at the cloth cover until she made a little hole and then would pull out the threads and small pieces of the inside padding to eat . |
| 10 | What happened to it then would depend on the prevailing attraction of reprocessing at Sellafield , especially the cost . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His mother would become involved in long discussions with him about how she treated them both fairly and then would end up getting angry with his unreasonable attitude . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Keeping Quistgaard in position until then would help this strategy . |
| 15 | Hymie and Louis would borrow two shillings from Old Bill , and then would say — ‘ We 're off to see a customer in Hamilton ( 12 miles away ) so we will not be back before 5 o'clock . ’ |
| 16 | Like in Harray we would say , up to go up and er the Deerness folk then would say , up or something like that , up . |
| 17 | What then would happen to children falling below these levels , who as a result of this restriction might be denied appropriate teaching ? |
| 18 | This revealed that the EC would only challenge BAe to honour Rover 's plans if there were significant variations , and even then would limit the amount to be reimbursed by the company . |
| 19 | And what then would become of her days ? |
| 20 | The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him . |
| 21 | Anyone entering the room just then would have thought what a very handsome couple they were . |
| 22 | The procedure then would have been to express the frequency of the imperfect subjunctive in relation to all the contexts where its occurrence was possible . |
| 23 | The Russians on the other hand would have stripped me naked , even if the temperature was far below zero , and then would have sliced every article of my clothes , even down to my shoes , into tiny pieces . |
| 24 | The Jessica I 'd known then would have felt more enthusiasm for a Christmas cracker bangle than she was showing for her gold bracelet . |
| 25 | Are they The chemist then would have to buy in all the bottles . |
| 26 | The Polytechnic had argued convincingly in the first round that to have done so then would have simply involved the NAB in steering its ‘ service ’ work around . |
| 27 | The deuterium nuclei then would have combined with more protons and neutrons to make helium nuclei , which contain two protons and two neutrons , and also small amounts of a couple of heavier elements , lithium and beryllium . |
| 28 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 29 | ‘ He is the man who murdered my father and sister when he attacked Tracy Castle , who made my other sister 's life such a hell that she killed herself rather than endure it any longer , and who then would have forced me to wed him in her place . ’ |
| 30 | On Arthur Young 's calculation higher wages did not restore living standards to the levels of the 1780s , for weekly earnings then would have bought fourteen loaves in Winchester , whereas in 1815 they could buy only nine . |