Example sentences of "and then they [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 What if something like this you know if I give this to Arthur and John and say er they just joined I give them this , this personal development plan , who should it put pressure on should do , yeah cos you should be going up to them and saying well I 'm supposed to have done you know X Y Y and they go ah yeah , and then they go up with these excuses yeah .
2 Er , well you have to carry a twelve stone man over a hundred yards , you see , in a certain time , and that is one of the strength tests , erm er these are these are tests that are drawn up to get people in in the initial stages , and then they go on from there .
3 And that they , two people , you know somebody every week will collect in all the languages books and take them along er , or the language homework and take them along to their language teacher and the other one will take the history le , homework and take them on to the history teacher , and then they go off to assembly alright ?
4 So they took it back to Wyvis Hall and hung it up again and then they lay out on the terrace in the sun , eating rump steak and potato crisps and drinking Hirondelle rose .
5 They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars .
6 And then they came back to her again and they had another carry on there .
7 Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment .
8 Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft .
9 Er and then they went on to them for your central heating
10 I remember er a flock staying here and the shepherds got their supper here and then they went on to for the night .
11 And then they went up to the village and it the first one would been 's , 's and and 's .
12 Well I think we were very lucky at the start that were were just starting up in England and they were actually more into what we were doing than er to the extent that I think that maybe other record companies might have laughed at them and said they 've no hope of surviving but I mean they had the Furies with er Sweet Sixteen and then they had er about six hit singles from Foster and Allen and about six or seven albums and then they went down to Daniel O'Donald which became an enormous success so I think when that happened then all record companies kind of said well maybe there is something here .
13 They thump your chest a few times and call the old crash unit and then they grope around for your pulse , but it 's a very amateurish affair really . ’
14 And then they sent back for the you know the , the ones that had been there before .
15 And they say you have to send in some of your product and then they come round to your stand and if it does n't comply they just take it off your stand which is our whole merchandise really .
16 Er they done the broken metal and then they put on the top of it and then they come along with a watering cart and er splashed water on it and then
17 So it 's two days out in the field with one of our trainers or top people and then they come in for the three day course .
18 My memory 's fairly good on the whole but I do forget names ; and then they come back to you , practically always , if you are patient .
19 And then they come back to the start again .
20 Oh six I mean and then they come back at
21 erm that then do n't come on either , but when it clicks like that they flash together and they both light up , and then when you start it up they go up and then they come back on again
22 And then they come back in , and they 're doing all the writing .
23 They stay submerged for ages , until you begin to think you 've only imagined you saw one go in — and then they pop up with a beakful of food .
24 Genuine puzzlement crossed Mandy 's features and then they lit up with self-appreciation .
25 Then the removal men came out of the house for the last time , wiping their brows on their once-white aprons , and then they helped down from the van a little old lady .
26 The blooming Creme Eggs are on sale all the year round and then they run out at Easter .
27 So they achieved it in one state and then they moved on to another and started a whole new campaign .
28 So Tallis described what she could sense , and then they moved on through the silent and deathly place , watching the dying and the dead with caution .
29 then they moved down to the house opposite the green in front of the church which I think the now live in next to the , Janet and Peter , that house and then they moved up to a bungalow .
30 Some guards moved the taxi back to the road and then they jumped on to the train again .
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