Example sentences of "then [pers pn] would [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short film would be shown of a man who 'd lost his memory through a cerebral stroke at the age of twenty-three , and was learning to programme his life so he could live alone , and then I would speak about the day-to-day struggle of living with someone who is in no-man 's world without reference and without time . |
| 2 | Then I 'd look at the fields of beans , glossy in the moonlight , hanging fat and glossy . |
| 3 | I mean I would open my eyes and see myself like that , wake up and then I 'd bounce off the bed and then I 'd sit there bouncing and , and but I have n't had that in a long time and wh when I thought now a lot of times , if I think that I leave either the front door unlocked , my house unlocked or the garage door open I go and actually check that in the middle of the night . |
| 4 | But the truth is , if you had ever seen this young man , naked or clothed ( and I have see him both , and halfway in between ) , then you would admit to the accuracy of what I 've said . |
| 5 | Then you would die in the fire ! ’ |
| 6 | Or then you 'd do like the four , four , four flares |
| 7 | You 'd go er before the baby was born and then you 'd look after the baby for the fi for a whole month . |
| 8 | Then she would go into the kitchen at the back of the house and make tea . |
| 9 | Then she would search for the flea , going along the seams of my clothes with her thumbnail until it jumped . |
| 10 | Then she would glance through the books she had bought , because she had to make a report on them . |
| 11 | If it was a warm , sunny day we would pack all our belongings into the caravan and then we would head to the beach or we would go swimming in the pool on the park . |
| 12 | We would hold a meeting of women from a certain neighbourhood to discuss their needs and then we would help with the necessary work of filing a request for services at the Town Hall . |
| 13 | He used to give me an hours warning and then we 'd work through until it got dark out in the fields and then we 'd go into the sheds and restack the hay or whatever he wanted to do . |
| 14 | As we slid at speed down the escarpment we took care to avoid nettles and barbed wire , then we 'd squeeze between the splintery struts of the Essoldo 's picket fence . |
| 15 | I , I , I mean I do think that w what we would have to do is , is if people started making inroads into two via this route , it might mean then we 'd get to the point where it was n't going to cost that much more to enable other scale one people |
| 16 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 17 | And then we 'd get onto the roof with the little tiny rivets , quarter inch rivets . |
| 18 | They would come , spend a night and then they would go through the entire paraphernalia . |
| 19 | And the abbots used to come up and then they would stay and have their meal in Kilray down at what they called the aiden or the tavern , and then they would walk over the hill of Kilray right up until they came to Dalvaine . |
| 20 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 21 | Under the armpit of Scandinavia , Finland fits like a gusset ; and if this gusset was a piece of rotten calico then it would rip in the ragged shredded way that Finland has done . |
| 22 | Then he would think of the undertaker forcing that convoluted form into a cheap coffin and the lid being screwed on . |
| 23 | His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next . |
| 24 | If he were to discover the nature and the limits of this person he was — and , as time went by , stave off the timor mortis — fear of death — then he would go for the nerve and the bone , draw blood . |
| 25 | If Bernard came across with anything good , then he would go to the archives and read the files himself . |
| 26 | He would wait for an hour or so , reading a newspaper or catching up on paperwork , then he would go to the McCausland counter and hire a car . |
| 27 | She would be seated in front of his desk before he allowed himself to be near her ; then he would lean against the same side of the desk as she . |
| 28 | And then he would arrange for the grave digger to dig the grave . |
| 29 | The decision based on a number of current offspring , larger numbers can be greater benefited with and therefore it 's more likely that if the parent had a lot of er offspring then he would continue with the investment and erm the conclusion from now is that males have a greater reproductive success , therefore they are more likely to desert because they can erm and erm this and erm the basic argument of this is one parent can get away with investing less share of erm resources they 're likely to spend more er then they 're to do it , so in other words erm if , if one of the , of the two is being to get away with having the other they can go out to er pursue their own and therefore erm each partner force the other to invest more . |
| 30 | Then he would search for the tunnel Mcduff had talked about . |