Example sentences of "[conj] then of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fog there is an atmosphere first of temper and then of inertia , followed by improvization and a peculiarly relieved conviviality , like the illogical sense of reprieve that lies in having to eat a carefully planned picnic lunch inside a car because it is pouring with rain outside . |
| 2 | So I am used to that process of working as a team and to delegating responsibility to the team and then of course monitoring and checking the results of the team . |
| 3 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 4 | I produced twelve ! ’ and then of course hubby 's got to do the business on them and once they 're fertilised they re-implant them , maximum six and hope one of them takes . |
| 5 | It was quite humbling to work with Karajan , and then of course I have such fond memories of Sinopoli in London , and Levine in New York . |
| 6 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 7 | And then of course he upped and died , far too early in life . |
| 8 | And then of course he tells me about punk rock and he was there and he was the meaning of punk rock . |
| 9 | And then of course there was the smell . |
| 10 | And then of course he got ill . |
| 11 | And then of course there was the promise of repairs from Dai Jones and his four sons , that prospect offered some hope . |
| 12 | A certain amount of welding to make good the outer shell has to be carried out and then of course we only need 218 small tubes and six large flue tubes to allow the boiler to be ready for hydraulic testing . |
| 13 | Erm and then of course in a sense almost bringing these things together the , the major and perhaps most influential of these er wars . |
| 14 | And then of course there was Major John Lewis , Patrick 's real father … |
| 15 | And then of course we sign them up later . |
| 16 | we 'd never , like I mean , I can remember in Plymouth dad saying when we get there , erm we 'll buy a television , we 'll have a television and we did n't know what he was talking about and he said it 's a wireless with pictures , you know , and our minds were boggling we just could n't understand it , and then of course that was another bit of bribery got us to come . |
| 17 | So , during the er , eighteen hundreds of course , you 've got these two major institutions started up and then of course we got the er Faraday when electrical started up , and they got the Faraday . |
| 18 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 19 | And then of course , silly girl , she went and told him — he was so livid he would n't have nothing more to do with her . " |
| 20 | And then of course they 've got this soldering iron type thing called the diathermy cautery device that seals up the blood vessels and this is being stabbed into her . |
| 21 | Erm and then of course there would be a I do n't know what the rates of interest are or the payback period but the erm of course the longer the payback period the more it costs you in the end so . |
| 22 | And then of course there are the other two . |
| 23 | ‘ And then of course you need the same set-up in Europe . |
| 24 | And then of course there needs to be a a budget for the rest of the year does n't there ? |
| 25 | And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin . |
| 26 | I still I still think they are today , and er , there was the Slippery Elm and then of course there was these backstreet effort . |
| 27 | Well most of the time yes Doctor pills were very very good in those days and then of course gin and loads of Epsom Salts brought you down to last leg , no wonder I 've got arthritis . |
| 28 | Take , you did n't bother about the headlands , you 'd do your headlands after you 'd mown all your and then of course then that was left to dry , after two or three days , depending on the weather again . |
| 29 | And then of course your sugar beet went direct to Colwick and it used to go by horse and cart in those days . |
| 30 | And then of course they used to iron them . |