Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] then [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we were lucky and then we opened up on January the fourth nineteen fifty five . |
| 2 | but at the beginning of the morning it were cold and then it went warmer |
| 3 | First she could not see any mistress there at all and thought the girls were alone and then she caught sight of Mademoiselle 's head in the middle of a crowd of girls , what was happening ? |
| 4 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 5 | At first she was shy but then she chattered about Nantes , how she missed the dark woods and green fields of Brittany . |
| 6 | For a moment she was rigid but then he felt her whole body suddenly relax . |
| 7 | The thought of the girl being hungry was insupportable and then he noticed how thin her torn garment was and how deep the hollows beneath her cheekbones . |
| 8 | No , at first it was difficult but then I had the Wilsons to help me . |
| 9 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 10 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 11 | First of all Mum thought I was anorexic and then she thought I 'd got thyroid trouble . |