Example sentences of "then [pron] would [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then you would have six men ashore that carry it away and stack it but course now today they do n't do that . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The characters when I 'd started out were in my head , but by then they 'd become real actors . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If they are moved in that order then it would take twelve operations to move from a to b . |
| 10 | Then he would decide difficult lawsuits exactly as his integrity-minded brethren do . |
| 11 | 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 . " |
| 12 | 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 . |