Example sentences of "but then [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm but then they 'd all Margaret and erm everybody had jumped on the bandwagon and said , . |
| 2 | But then they said this Casey was a cop . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But then what do these Ministry Inspectors know about education ? ’ resumed the headmaster hastily , discarding doubts as quickly as he had assumed them . |
| 4 | ‘ But then we go straight back . |
| 5 | ‘ Distribution always seems to improve during the Christmas period , ’ he said , ‘ but then we bypass inefficient distributors by going direct to the excellent wholesalers . ’ |
| 6 | You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ . |
| 7 | But then we stole one Polo shirt and that was it . |
| 8 | But then he booked one trip too many . |
| 9 | He had been better able to tolerate it ten years ago , but then he had drunk alcohol to be like other people and to impress , not because he liked it . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's wonderful , ’ said the man , but then he saw four Scots sitting at a table without a drink . |
| 11 | He certainly liked men more , but then he liked manly men not ‘ bloody queers ’ , so he had to be all right . |
| 12 | But then I put two pounds , which should have been off Linda 's . |
| 13 | It was , of course , hilarious in itself but then I got this bit of smoked salmon ( coloured red of course ! ) and draped it across her upper lip and it looked a bit like a moustache . |
| 14 | But then I love growing houseplants . |
| 15 | ‘ But then I love beautiful things , do n't you ? ’ |
| 16 | But then you get on-hand experience from it . |
| 17 | But then you have these bands , like Def Leppard … |
| 18 | I wanted you to know how important you are ; how much I care about you — value you ; and … . ’ her voice quivered and stopped , but then she took another breath and finished her declaration steadily enough : ‘ and how much I want you . ’ |
| 19 | But then she heard another faint groan and saw that a figure was sprawled immobile across the double bed in the centre of the room . |
| 20 | But then she produced another harpy-bat shrieked and vanished from screen . |