Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] then " in BNC.
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| 1 | dad 's going to light them and then you can blow them |
| 2 | Well that does throw me because then |
| 3 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 4 | Or you can actually try freezing them to kill them and then they just drop off on their own . |
| 5 | They enlighten us on the mystery , we are grateful to them , we trust them and then we buy their product . |
| 6 | But when you trust them and then they tell you lies what do you do ? |
| 7 | Next , he started slapping me and then finally actually punching me . |
| 8 | For the ‘ dogmatic dialectic ’ , as he describes dialectical materialism , the whole question naturally poses no problem , for each person or group simply constitutes a partial moment of an already operative movement of totalization that produces them and then goes beyond them . |
| 9 | Nick had the gall to go and buy them and then . |
| 10 | The principal objectives of such a department are to identify market opportunities , design a strategy to meet them and then implement approved plans , in collaboration with other departments . |
| 11 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 12 | You have been given the ability to recognise your own apprehensions , to accept them and then to let them go . |
| 13 | They moved carefully , slowly ; clouds blanketed them and then cleared ; swirled around them again . |
| 14 | Appliqué was Amy 's other option — cutting out the brown shapes , dying them and then sewing them back on individually . |
| 15 | Realistic for your trainees in terms of what , are they capable of absorbing them and then time . |
| 16 | ‘ If only it had been me I would have flown to the highest tree where they could n't catch me and then , and then into the sky to find the wind . ’ |
| 17 | if we forget them and then |
| 18 | Look at them , acknowledge them and then tell yourself you will deal with them later and let them go . |
| 19 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 20 | He bombards male insects with radioactive particles to sterilise them and then releases them in huge numbers , so condemning generations of females to infertility . |
| 21 | A Lancefish bait placed in a convenient place in the aquarium can be used to attract them and then they can be picked off , the bait being removed afterwards , of course . |
| 22 | ‘ Staff disarmed him but then he head-butted Mr Ali quite deliberately with such force he fell backwards . ’ |
| 23 | Her husband muttered something to me about going to find her and then stormed off . ’ |
| 24 | Certainly there had been times when he had started to caress her and then , with a certain boyish sweetness , had turned lovemaking into conversation , letting the moment pass . |
| 25 | The two large men chased the smaller man , caught him and then proceeded to bash his brains out in front of everyone at the tables — or so it seemed . |
| 26 | He something about , I do n't know , he he got in trouble or something with and so , then she bought the van and he has it and then she has half the profit . |
| 27 | Just a moment , suspended it and then Gorbachev , his first secretary has the right to do it , disband the central committee and then what lower party er bodies do is up to them . |
| 28 | I do n't buy it and then go home and play it , because I 'm not going to get anything from it at home , but at 2am , after a gig in Oslo or Munich or Berlin , it sounds damned good . |
| 29 | Roll up other side to meet it and then moisten both rolls with water where they meet and press them firmly together . |
| 30 | He loved to lie next to her and kiss it and then to stretch flat and look up at her hips . |