Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out . |
| 2 | Then I saw two men hitting each other , others running , some falling down . |
| 3 | Then I remember another object hitting my collegaue . |
| 4 | ‘ Then I hope these people do n't know either although they seem to know a lot . |
| 5 | We have a short paper which I ask people coming for a job to read through , and then I ask some questions to see what sort of person they are . |
| 6 | ‘ My mind was fixed on the tribunal most of the day , then I spent four hours travelling up for what I thought would be a place on the bench . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm going to unpack , then I have some paperwork to do . |
| 8 | Then I want this lot livened up . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I lie there pretending to be asleep then I feel this thing pressed against me . |
| 10 | So they 're going to go see then you get other branches coming off of that one |
| 11 | If the parka also has USS Ticondcroga printed across the left breast and you won it in a backgammon game on San Francisco 's Pier 39 , then you have enough kudos to carry it off . |
| 12 | Then she went next door to fetch another servant . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But then she produced another harpy-bat shrieked and vanished from screen . |
| 15 | we had a hundred and twenty , were , were , and a , and a drink and that and then we spent fifteen quid did n't we ? |
| 16 | Then we spent five minutes blowing cigar smoke at each other , until Stok said , ‘ Lenin did n't smoke , hated flowers , never had a soft chair in his office , had only the simplest food , liked reading Turgenev and always had his watch fifteen minutes slow . |
| 17 | And then we heard one final hiss of the safety valves and then silence . |
| 18 | Then we saw those woods erupt into one big ball of flame and a pillar of smoke rose almost to our altitude as that fuel dump went up ’ . |
| 19 | In some ways it was worse than Saturday because it was then we realised all hope had gone . ’ |
| 20 | Yeah well , there was n't many shops there really dear , there were just the er fishmongers and greengrocers and the butchers and the , we used to have to go there to get , to queue up , you had to queue because there was no , not many shops to be there you see to serve you , it 's altered a lot now , there 's a lot more shops now and the doctors I used to have to queue right out the gate , the doctors a big long queue , there was only Dr surgery and then we had another doctor came that started down at erm the bottom of erm Harlow near where , where do they call that ? |
| 21 | Well they were two storey buildings , we had one office which was partitioned off for us clerks and the other half was for the traffic superintendent who was responsible , directly responsible to the general manager of the Ipswich Electric Supply and Transport Departments , so erm and then we had another office adjoining that which was a store room because in those days we used to have to erm record and keep in safekeeping all lost property , no end of things we used to have but we , you know , we used to have pigeon holes and lost property that was brought in , was placed into these pigeon holes it 'd be Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday . |
| 22 | Then we constructed three alcoves to house terracotta busts and used two Doulton tile panels inset into the wall . |
| 23 | And then we walked further and then we found this pub to eat . |
| 24 | And to some extent if you do bring jobs into the town which bring new people into the town , when the particular employer that has brought these people into the town or the area closes down , then we have more jobs to find in the area . |
| 25 | yes , but I mean that 's land , that looks , people might think it means mountains , and when they read that , then they read that bit look |
| 26 | And then erm , then they had this thing called Niff , which was water , and they came round spraying all of us . |
| 27 | and they , they put the concrete down , then they get this thing to put on it and it , it sort of moulds it |
| 28 | By contrast , if energetic , ambitious and talented people from non-elite backgrounds can move through their own efforts into leadership positions in the key economic , political and administrative organizations , then they have little incentive to try to organize a collective effort with other non-elite groups to develop themselves as a counter-elite . |
| 29 | Then they have five days to sell the dog , make arrangements for the wife and kids and set off for Moscow 's Star City , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The rationable behind the development shown in Fig. 1 is that if PHCNs are to be agents of change , then they need appropriately-trained trainers to facilitate their skills development irrespective of whether they are doctors , nurses or professors . |