Example sentences of "[coord] then they [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , and one of the great ironies is that when I 'm talking to students about the nature of history , one of the first things I try and say to them is ‘ Look , do n't have this idea that there 's a great bundle of documents lying in an attic , and this is the way that history works , that people make a sensational discovery and then they write a book about it . |
| 2 | They assimilate , they analyze , they consider and then they make a decision or act on things . |
| 3 | Now and then they passed a baby wailing outside a peeling front door in a battered pram . |
| 4 | He said no I 'm on the phone and then they took a photo and that , Geraldine was there and they tipped the whole fucking bucket on his head , he had dog ends in his hair , and everything and he went you , he did n't know what to say , and we said see you David all the best . |
| 5 | You see traditionally people used to think of an evaluation as something that was very convergent and first people gathered lots of evidence , and then they wrote a set of recommendations or conclusions , and you were supposed to agree them or follow them afterwards . |
| 6 | in town , and I gave them me name and me address , and then they sent a letter saying , No , you ca n't have one . |
| 7 | I know that 's difficult to provide erm , and the money 's got to be found for that , but it , it 's a mixed blessing putting elderly people into , a lot are put into our homes , which I agree are very good the majority of them , they 're very nice , but the people who 're put into them , they give up their own homes , and then they get a bit better six months later , and they say , ooh , I just want to go back to my home now . |
| 8 | And then they 'd a fancy dress at Christmas , at Hogmanay . |
| 9 | And then they had a tip outside where the lorries backed into |
| 10 | They just put it on you see with a brush and it was a paste you see , all over the coach , and then they had a hose and they washed all that X mover off you see , the X mover was an acid and it ate into the you see , bodywork . |
| 11 | Robbie and then they had a boat and they went across . |
| 12 | Then they went to bed again and drank and loved two nights away and then they had a party and then they made a giant salad of mushrooms and tomatoes and sweetcorn and ham and avocado and lettuce and hibernated for a week . |
| 13 | Yeah , quite a high one so they have a big dam to give a good head water , a good height of water , and that water comes Drops down through quite a quite a height , and then they have a turbine sort of force it into a turbine with a turbine and it really spins that turbine th that 's joined top the alternator and makes the electricity . |
| 14 | But then they had a cycling club , at chapel , and so we tended to go Saturdays , and then I started walking and youth hostelling . |
| 15 | But then they had a habit of melting into society , and in the meantime many had been the expensive guests of the German taxpayer . |
| 16 | They originally thought they were looking for a medieval leper hospital , but then they uncovered a skeleton almost two thousand years old . |
| 17 | I believe they were given a home with luck and Arab backing , but then they wanted a State which they got , I believe they were entitled to one . |