Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Then I gave him the slip and came to London . ’ |
2 | where it , she said it was too big for her and er she wanted something smaller , with a swap , well I did n't swap for the reason mine was overlooking the lake , it was in a better position , and er , then she told me the reason she wanted to swap cos er , she said it was too big cos her husband had died , I started to speak to her about when God 's kingdom comes on the earth , these dead ones will come back , these loved ones |
3 | then they taught me the copper |
4 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
5 | thought he 'd cut and things like this and then they showed you the chap the next day and he was completely different ! |
6 | ‘ When I got the sack , then it gave me the chance to paint really hard . |
7 | ‘ Then he gave me the pitch . |
8 | ‘ And then he gave us the will and the other papers and he said to us , just before we toddled off to Morocco — ’ |
9 | shows you a little tiny picture of the calculator and when you press one button it presses the button on the thing and then he showed me the clock |
10 | er then he showed me the alarm and the he sho right he 's got file of everybody ai n't got one of us though . |