Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [conj] then " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the adults with whom they interact must continue to be interested in what they have to say , more concerned to answer questions and to sustain and extend their interests than to tell them what the adults think they ought to know and then to check that they can remember what they were told ( Wood , 1983 ) . |
| 2 | Now this is where you really must wet cos then it flows |
| 3 | If it was going to happen , it must happen and then she would know what it was like to be kissed , which she did not know , now . |
| 4 | Like Brocklehurst coming in and and penny-pinching about what the girls should have and then his wife and daughters come in dressed in velvets and furs and so on . |
| 5 | ‘ You must go and then you can tell me of it afterwards . |
| 6 | every , every restriction out must go and then we 'll give you clearance when it 's entirely innocuous or when , the clauses |
| 7 | So if we want to support pragmatism on the second , political dimension , we must accept and then exploit its central feature , its skepticism about legal rights . |
| 8 | You see , if we slept together and I — if I disappointed you — we might quarrel and then you 'd walk out . |
| 9 | He rightly argues that the best way to find out what part of the brain does is to start out with very general questions about the sorts of thing it might do and then work through to more specific questions . |
| 10 | She says no you ca n't , I might do and then when she 's ready to go out she 'll say you could 've taped it . |
| 11 | Er if I may I 'll speak and then I 'll give you an amendment which I think will be more constructive than the proposed resolution . |
| 12 | ‘ It might rain and then your hair would get wet . ’ |
| 13 | yes it says we would like to take this opportunity to answer some of the questions you might have and then the question comes will the management charges greatly increase ? did you have any part to play in the posing of this question in the brochure ? |
| 14 | my mum 's seventy five , how does she get back er ten pound of potatoes and all the week 's shopping , I say well I 'll go and then he moans at me cos I 'm running around after everybody else but |
| 15 | I 'll start and then someone else can pick up . |
| 16 | He winked at Ruth as he indicated the place where she might sit and then , having settled them all to his liking , he fetched the food from the carriage . |
| 17 | Here Cornelius fed the motor car with the best petrol that money could buy and then took himself up to the restaurant to join Tuppe . |
| 18 | I 'd introduce and then I 'd . |
| 19 | Instead of having the machine score the various positions that could be reached after one play , it could generate and then evaluate all the positions possible after a play and a reply , or a play , a reply and a counter-reply . |
| 20 | They could do but then again |
| 21 | Er I could do but then again would you under er so that you can understand er what the actual recommendations are , the important thing is again that we see you face to face . |
| 22 | The second principle : ‘ the system for quality is prevention ’ involves considering where errors could occur and then taking action to prevent them . |
| 23 | If he knew the probabilities of the three states of the market , he could compute and then maximise the expected profit . |
| 24 | I 'd grumble but then pay . |
| 25 | Well , I could have but then I always think I can do anything , do n't I ? |
| 26 | And out would come the people to the door , course they could n't see anything or anybody , back they 'd go and then you 'd do it again . |
| 27 | What , what people had , had Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and they perhaps came for their order on the , or their weekend joint on the Friday and I 'd make the whole ticket up and they 'd pay and then that ticket would be torn off and if they wanted that meat delivered on the Saturday , that would be delivered with that ticket on the top . |
| 28 | ‘ I liked the way that , we 'd be on the bandstand playing and he 'd just be walking around and playing and just look at you and kind of tip his head , you 'd play and then he 'd start playing when he wanted you to stop ! |
| 29 | Within these coastal poleniers an enormous amount of sea ice could form and then is removed to the north dumping enormous amounts of salt into the shelf water making it very dense and setting up the stage for the deep sinking associated with Antarctic . |
| 30 | a hundred pound more , you could say and then you get less hassle |