Example sentences of "and then it [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now and then it came into view , wide and smoothly blue , with low reedy islands breaking its shining surface . |
| 2 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 3 | Smoke wisps up and then it explodes in flames . |
| 4 | Only in the spring does the waterfall recover , and then it roars with delight at regaining life , just as I did . |
| 5 | you 're thinking long-term , yeah I can do this and then when it , a gentleman 's agreement and then it comes to paper , and when that paper 's signed you 're stuck with it |
| 6 | If a light is shone you see a whole background , and then it sinks into invisibility as if there were no wood , lake , palace among rocks , and winding paths . |
| 7 | And then it occurred to Cardiff : ‘ Oh Christ . |
| 8 | And then it occurred to Cathy that although the old man was lying exactly as she had seen him , something had changed . |