Example sentences of "then [pron] would [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was my work , then when she came down on duty , she would sit one side of the table with her books and I would sit the other and count all the money , you see , then I would take this money er , in a bag , through on to the black through the , past the ticket collector and take it to the booking office and they took it from me and took it when they took their money to the bank , you see . |
| 2 | If the distance between bait and bullet was , say , 12 inches , then I would have 12 inches of line that would be out of my control . |
| 3 | I promised myself I would n't come near you again unless you wanted me to , that the ball would always be in your court , and that if you chose to kick me out of your life for good , then I 'd respect that wish , even if it 'd half kill me to do so . |
| 4 | Oh I ca n't sling that now , then I 'd have two John . |
| 5 | Then you would have six men ashore that carry it away and stack it but course now today they do n't do that . |
| 6 | If this was sort of a cubic or something then you 'd have all sorts of terms and you could chance of making a mistake . |
| 7 | Then you 'd see old Pat McEwen 's wife looking out for you . |
| 8 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 9 | Used to take , used to go round , take the first lot of orders out with you and then you 'd get another lot of orders to take back . |
| 10 | She 'd phone Steve later and find out what he was doing and then she would use any information she had about him and Maria Luisa to irritate her way out of the Casa Pinar . |
| 11 | Similarly , if score A has a positive Z score then we would expect variable B to have a variable Z score . |
| 12 | If the two sets of scores are positively correlated , then we would expect positive Z scores to occur together and similarly negative Z scores should be paired . |
| 13 | If we used only the same newspapers then we would miss new developments which added to the range , while if we did add to the sample then we were not comparing like with like . |
| 14 | I think our view is that if that provision was to be any greater , then we would have significant difficulty in accommodating that provision within our part of Greater York , primarily for for greenbelt considerations , not reasons , erm any additional provision would require a rolling back of the greenbelt , er significant provision would have two implications , erm either it would mean peripheral expansion er of York into the greenbelt around York and into our district , we feel that would adversely affect the special character of York , lead to outward sprawl of the York urban area , encroachment into open countryside , and coalescence of the urban area with the villages in our district , er and we we would n't want to support that . |
| 15 | there are times when we think that if we really had faith , if we really believed , if we were true Christians then we would have this peace and serenity about us . |
| 16 | Between there and the A fifty nine to the east , we would have one single er arrow or triangle and then we would have another arrow or triangle between the A sixty one and the A fifty nine to the west of Harrogate and similarly another arrow between the A fifty nine and the A sixty one south of the A fifty nine , down to A sixty one south of Harrogate . |
| 17 | Then they would head due north , bypassing Italian-held Jalo , to the rendezvous point in the Jebel mountains . |
| 18 | It was easier going to the house — he and Richard 's wife Pat used to swap wartime evacuation stories with each other and then they would play verbal tennis , making conversation out of the spoken lyrics of Forties ' songs — than going to the theatre to see other actors , as they sometimes did together after the run of Public Eye . |
| 19 | ‘ The characters when I 'd started out were in my head , but by then they 'd become real actors . |
| 20 | The wheels would be all right for a couple of days ; then they 'd become ten times worse and they 'd have to come to the smithy . |
| 21 | If the monopolist were less interested in profits and more interested in maximising the firm 's sales revenue , then it would produce 100,000 units at a price of £5 . |
| 22 | I suspect that is now the view of the Liberal Democrats , so if Labour were to hang on trying to breathe life into the corpse while the Democrats tiptoed from the funeral parlour , then it would lose all legitimacy as a multi-party device . |
| 23 | If they are moved in that order then it would take twelve operations to move from a to b . |
| 24 | Then he would decide difficult lawsuits exactly as his integrity-minded brethren do . |
| 25 | Then he would use this information to chat knowledgeably and sympathetically to them in the lobbies or the smoking room , often concentrating as much upon the opposition as upon his own supporters . |
| 26 | And then he would take that complaint , if the branch committee approved it , you see , or nine times out of ten if the branch secretary thought it was a valid case , he would send it in a letter to the sectional council . |
| 27 | Then he would take another matchbox out and say " try these " . |
| 28 | Then he would qualify these certainties at the end , once the client had agreed to buy with something like : " of course , you 'll appreciate that , as with any shares , I can make no absolute guarantees , but this is the best opportunity I 've seen for a while . " |
| 29 | And then he 'd bring that home , you see ? |
| 30 | Then he 'd write long letters to Richard , telling precisely how long the train journey took and describing colourfully the other people with whom he shared the carriage . |