Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I had to write a composition about the Royal Visit . |
| 2 | Then I had to find a cab and get back here . |
| 3 | It was the third day in July , page four , seven , three and then I had to find a word that I 'd never heard off before and put it up on the board . |
| 4 | Since then I had had a healing , been taking massive doses of vitamin C , regular doses of vitamin A and B and supplements of zinc and selenium , eating my ‘ stay-well ’ diet and doing my visualization . |
| 5 | We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies . |
| 6 | Then I seemed to grow a couple of inches , and thin out . |
| 7 | Then I try to find a way of expressing the idea and there is n't one . |
| 8 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
| 9 | You do C D space put , so you 're pointing at that directory , and then if you do M D ninety three , M D space ninety three , and then I 've created a sub-directory in ninety three , below this directory . |
| 10 | on , on the Wrexham road coming out of Mold , er pardon me , erm and then I 've got a couple of days holiday to use up still from work |
| 11 | ‘ Then I 've got a lot to thank you for . |
| 12 | He said then I 've got a lot of tapes you know , says sit in here |
| 13 | I generally take two at a time , but then I 've had a lot of practice . |
| 14 | then I want to write a comment , I will not necessarily involve the child with |
| 15 | ‘ It was then I decided to find a product which I thought was marketable and start marketing it , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Then I started to get a feeling that the Lord was going to move me from my present job . |
| 17 | Then I did get a break because I was at a party where there were lots of television producers who like to relax and let their hair down , fall out of windows and things like that . |
| 18 | The reason we know it 's not it was nineteen sixteen er that had been killed was that he was home obviously at the beginning of the war he went off and then someone named left a house well left they died and the proceeds of the house were left to Mrs Miss 's grandmother . |
| 19 | If you 've never seen the Tan Hill on a bleary winter 's day when winds are driving wet sleet over the hellhole of Sleightholme Moor and the sky and the land are welded together in one sullen , sodden grey , then you 've missed a treat . |
| 20 | You know , very often when you go from one country to another you go through an area of re , what is called no man 's land , you come through from one frontier and then you 've got a distance and you come to the next frontier that does n't exist as far as accepting or rejecting Christ is concerned . |
| 21 | Then you 've got a continuation shot . |
| 22 | You may have a list of directories as well , off the root directory , and then you 've got a directory called One Two Three One Two Three programs in . |
| 23 | So , one more week to go and then you 've got a holiday . |
| 24 | In many societies David McKnight tells me the man who does the circumcision who actually chops off the foreskins as it were , owes you a wife for it and he says in many of them if you give a man your foreskin then you 've got a right to demand a wife . |
| 25 | to climb the stairs , and I think then you tend to panic a bit , I and I felt most of the time I felt fine , and then you see getting up at five o'clock yesterday morning , by the time I got off , it was your father that fell asleep on that last drinking session , but I mean , as I said we ai n't used to drinking in the day like that |
| 26 | To get the real benefits of aerobic walking and to walk towards that fitter , slimmer you , then you have to achieve a walking heart rate between 60 per cent and 85 per cent of your maximum heart rate ( refer again to Table 3 ) . |
| 27 | If you kick a child all his schooldays , force him to labour sixteen hours a day seven days a week , yank out his teeth with forceps when they ache , bleed him when he is ill , beat him throughout his apprenticeship , starve him when he falls on bad times , and finally let him die in the workhouse when he ages prematurely , then you have educated a man , in the best way possible , to be indifferent . |
| 28 | And that 's where the rift begins : then you have to make a choice , staying with my white friends or going with my black friends . |
| 29 | If you have a 286 or 386 then you have to find a way of converting the natural extended memory to expanded . |
| 30 | I think it 's a lot more worthwhile doing a science degree because a lot of arts degrees do n't lead anywhere because then you have to find a job … they 're not leading to a career of any sort … |