Example sentences of "and then [pron] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 2 | And then we paid for a winter clean . |
| 3 | And then they came for the Communists , I was n't a Communist so I did n't bother . |
| 4 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 5 | In semi-darkness , she waited , hearing the sound of a key grating against metal , and then he fumbled for a moment , muttering to himself in Italian . |
| 6 | Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time . |
| 7 | Erm I think bro broadly , certainly by the time you 've got through to the later spring th th there is y yes I mean i in a sense there are sort of three areas if you like but , but very broadly the areas which had not been taken over yet i is very much a slower process of consolidation and then you wait for the next rule . |
| 8 | He just ca n't put it forward , so you have to get a book and do it yourself , and then I ask for the syllabus so I can make sure |
| 9 | ‘ I gave him half an hour and then I went for a spin . ’ |
| 10 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |