Example sentences of "then they [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er they say , and if then they 've made a mistake you have done what you are told , I mean if you take a big ladder and it 's only a wee fire , a small car bump and then there is a big fire later on , somewhere else and they have n't got their , the right appliances because you 're at that place with the wrong stuff , then that would cause problems would n't it ? |
| 2 | They 're like that , and then they 've got a shuttlecock the shuttlecock used to er have er like a a cork thing and then there used to be feathers round . |
| 3 | and there 's three on then they 've got a light on outside of outhouse . |
| 4 | Even then they failed to catch a glimpse of the plane , it had been immediately engulfed in a fifty-foot-high curtain of water and spray . |
| 5 | But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line . |
| 6 | Er but as far as I 'm concerned if it comes in in week four , that 's fair enough , but things after that then they start to get a bit upset |
| 7 | you see I moved a bit more now but and I I 've still got good hearing er apart from this ear here , this ear , I ca n't hear so well , quite so well , this side , you see so I always have to say excuse me while I , hang on while I turn off the television , you see , and then they have to wait a minute till I turn it off and then what I do is because I have this phone extension put in |
| 8 | If teachers regard themselves as professionally accountable to themselves and their colleagues then they have accepted a commitment to the maintenance and improvement of their practice . |
| 9 | Then they appeared to reach a decision and walked back to the Land Rover . |
| 10 | And me mother , she lived at , that 's not far from Peterborough , and she er Me father used to go to this here farm , me mother lived , and of course they got in with each other , then they got married and then they wanted to buy a caravan . |