Example sentences of "[coord] then [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | we had a hundred and twenty , were , were , and a , and a drink and that and then we spent fifteen quid did n't we ? |
2 | And then we put two pints in it after do n't we ? |
3 | And then we heard one final hiss of the safety valves and then silence . |
4 | Okay , and then we do seven takeaway ten ? |
5 | Now the boatmen they used to erm the name , the family of a name of , and the old man , the grandfather his name was and then they had three sons who were boatmen , one was called Arthur John , one had a nickname of Snowball , the other one 's name was George and they used to er , some of them at times used to row from the lock gates out to the Cork Lightship together to get a boat , so they made sure of roping that boat in at , at er in the dock or at Cliff Quay and course they used to get the captain of the ship to sign er a bill and they used to take that to the , to the shipping agent and then he 'd pay 'em the money . |
6 | and they say pen and then they say one rupee , which is a tiny bit of currency , erm and they ask for pens for their school so that they can write at school . |
7 | Shortly after that her first child was born and then she had two miscarriages . |
8 | And he waited , and then he heard one word come back , spoken in a whisper , she must have been close to sleep . |
9 | and we 'd left it , and not bothered and then he says one day I might as well sling this out it 's no good is it ? |
10 | I mean in in the midweek game against us he had very little play and then he produced one ball that got them an equalizer and I suppose that 's what Frank would look for now . |
11 | And then he saw two men . |
12 | His expert hands felt around her sides and then he slipped two fingers inside her vagina . |
13 | And then you got seventy pounds worth of food vouchers as well , that 's two hundred quid in n it ? |
14 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
15 | We 've said find three quarters by finding one quarter first and then you take three times it . |
16 | And then you had twenty people , well , over twenty people sat in the window , and they all had bar meals , and they 'd all been to do with this run , you know , there 's a big run through Twickenham on a Sunday morning , |
17 | And I 'll do mine so I had three sixty and I split it as a ten times thirty six and then I had two times five for that ten okay ca n't go any further there . |
18 | we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out . |
19 | matchsticks together and then I stuck one half on top of the other to make it look like an extending ladder . |
20 | Mind you I was I was still on three years in in colours and and then I got nine years reserve to do after that . |
21 | So I accepted a job with him , and then I got two offers the next day , one with the savings bank , I think it was , and one with someone else . . |
22 | For instance , last year I got an open at Pembroke , Cambridge , and an exhibition at Trinity Hall , Cambridge , and then I got half-a-dozen places . |
23 | And then I spent six months in Peterborough doing paediatrics , erm working in the special care unit with all the premature babies with incubators and not fluffy hot water bottles |
24 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
25 | She said and then I have two weeks erm homework to mark and then we have a weeks holiday I thought well that 's two weeks |
26 | I will leave them behind me and go only with the clothes on my back , and then I have two miles and a half and a byway to the town , and bring pretty well dressed I may come to some harm almost as bad as what I ran away from , and then , perhaps , it will be reported I have stolen something , and to carry a bad name to my dear parents … |
27 | Yeah I se well I happened to be coming home from school cos I thought there was a the hearse coming and then I watched two mourning cars two flashy great big things ! |
28 | And then it fills one side up then . |
29 | It 's , tonight it 's , think of these as a sort of temperature numbers that , try , try these , it starts at plus three tonight and then it drops five degrees , plus three and it drops five degrees , what does it come to ? |
30 | But then we stole one Polo shirt and that was it . |