Example sentences of "then [ex0] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They served all their time and then there was just no future for them . |
| 2 | Perhaps there was a glimmer of hope in 1949 when someone of the stature ( rather than the disposition ) of de Gaulle might have seized the burning brand ; and four years later Mendès France could face the unacceptable although by then there was practically no alternative . |
| 3 | But then there was also the ingenue , a young girl with all the sparkle of a Guy Fawkes night fireworks display , who appeared in one scene in a straw boater and what looked very like a parson 's dog collar and had everyone in the audience drooling — just as they had on Broadway where in New Faces she had had her break a few months before . |
| 4 | The petrol tank exploded in a bloom of yellow and red , and then there was only a lot of smoke , with bits falling : bits of wing , bits of wheel , bits of pilot . |
| 5 | Early this morning there were ‘ road closed ’ signs at Gubberford bridge and near the bottom of Tithebarn Lane , although by then there was only an inch or two of water across the road . |
| 6 | And then there was always a cradle with a little one in you know in between I do n't how we lived honest I do n't . |
| 7 | Then there was always the harvest home dance , and then the school , that was the only place we had to dance in that day and they had it decorated with various kinds of the the the c corn dollies and erm |
| 8 | ‘ And then there was always the possibility that we might decide to keep Jane Pargeter after all . ’ |
| 9 | If it would have caught Meredith 's attention she would n't have minded a bone lodging in her gullet , but then there was always the risk he might think she was merely coughing — she could choke for nothing . |
| 10 | Since Félix was not going to oppose her wishes to meet Harry in London in July , then there was still a chance — however remote — that she could change Harry 's mind about the American girl . |