Example sentences of "[conj] then [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It becomes abundantly clear from these accounts that then as now , family support was a two-way process , and that responding to a crisis could result in intense friction as well as in deep affection . |
| 2 | Killeavey player Mark had held the dangerous Gallagher in check up until then and now hopes to impose an even greater stranglehold on the stocky corner forward in the replay . |
| 3 | To make the colours fade into-each other , apply the paint and then while still wet make gentle brush-strokes across the area where the colours join . |
| 4 | And then after about eighteen months er Sterk came along with the Road Traffic Act , you see ? |
| 5 | And then after only five minutes Gran put down the phone and emerged , saying , ‘ Ruth , lovey , come and have a word wi ’ your Aunt Sarah . ’ |
| 6 | For several minutes they drove in silence , then Tom began to speak his thoughts aloud , glancing briefly at Belinda every now and then but mostly keeping his narrowed eyes firmly fixed on the road . |
| 7 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |
| 8 | And then but then at the end er you know I think you said , Oh but Emmy says it all has to put together . |
| 9 | One gang set fire to a shop after wrecking it and then that too became a feature of the attacks . |
| 10 | And then that perhaps it was a sort of reminder . |
| 11 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 12 | And this this we see , it 's er quite interesting , this you notice this bit here is not plastered , and this has not got these dimples , so we think that what actually happened is when they first did this the the the the this bit of the window was blocked up with wood or wattle and daub or something like that , and so it was a a a and then when then when the vestry came down this these stones were put in here to block it up again . |
| 13 | And the and then or else I 'll open my plug and water 'll come out before you get in . |
| 14 | Of course , he also had to be ready with a word or two of encouragement now and then as well . |
| 15 | So why did n't , and then as well . |
| 16 | She explains : ‘ I take a very deep breath before I get on the plane and then as soon as I am on board I get out all my make-up and put it on the table in front of me and spend hours putting it on . |
| 17 | So I got up , took the dog a walk , got back in , bolted down my breakfast , and then as soon as I 'd finished , on the garden digging . |
| 18 | And then as soon as I can find somewhere else , I 'll move out and leave you alone . |
| 19 | And it was n't a lot , and then as soon as the event was over it was all smartly taken off , you know . |
| 20 | Keep two cartridges in your hand all the time , and then as soon as you 'd handed your gun , and you were taking the other one , and he was the empty one . |
| 21 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 22 | And then as soon as our office gets that it 'll be two to three weeks . |
| 23 | And then as soon as he started his courses and he met somebody . |
| 24 | And then as soon as they went away she got her out and sat and had a . |
| 25 | And then as soon as . |
| 26 | But I , does but when you say that now though , cos I , he slagged Kirsty off to me , he just said oh she 's just really pretentious and she 'll , she 'll talk to you and then as soon as someone cooler comes in the room she 'll turn round and she 'll completely ignore you and you 're left and she 'll do that like at a dinner party or something and you 're left standing there feeling a real id you know , you know that feeling do n't you when you 're talking to someone and suddenly they desert you and you 're all on your own in a room ? |
| 27 | She went down Wednesday she had to go late because the builder does n't come very early so she did n't go to B and Q until the afternoon , and she was going around , or Do-it-all , one of them , she was going around looking around and then as soon as she looked out it was half past five ! |
| 28 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |
| 29 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
| 30 | ‘ Scroungers ’ did exist , irresistibly when many were poor and charity was to be had sometimes merely for attending a church service ; and then as now there was a flourishing mythology of great sums inveigled from charity by shrewd layabouts . |