Example sentences of "[coord] then [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And then once Helen and that had woken up that was about half eleven she woke up and then it like , oh , our provisions and then we started talking and everything else together like
2 Finally I saw shapes of valleys , hills , crags , the white flash of waterfalls and then after Bill Robins lent me his binoculars , even houses , mostly thatched with palms or with roofs of red corrugated iron , the trademark of Polynesia , with the occasional roof of startling white .
3 She liked it , and then after Colonel Hamilton died she never went away at all , even in the winter .
4 ‘ If only we knew what was happening , ’ women said to each other as news came that Holland had been flooded and then that Rotterdam had been blitzed and the Dutch had surrendered .
5 Every now and then when Lady Flora wanted to talk scandal with her friends , Honor was allowed to go riding .
6 Eventually Ryan appeased Neath by choosing more of their players but it made no difference : whatever kind of front five was chosen , static or mobile , Wales were beaten , and then when rugby league lucre had begun to attract an increasing number of his better players Ryan gave up the unequal struggle after the devastating defeat at Twickenham in 1990 .
7 And then when Dad walked out … ’
8 And then when dad 's coming to bed I 'll come ou I 'll go in the lounge .
9 Yeah and then when Alex knocks who will come through barking ?
10 And then when things got a wee bitty better we used to have the Camerons up from Kilray from Kerry to dance to the Play at the dances .
11 The situation changed , firstly when Andrew confounded medical opinion by playing again in December and then when Dawe pulled out of the semi-final match against Yorkshire after his club , Bath , had rearranged a postponed Courage League match at Rugby .
12 But the corporation , I think , is wasting more money boarding up these windows and then when people take them over again .
13 And then when people choose it creates what 's there , a spatial pattern .
14 And so , he phoned when he got home and Mr was in and and then when Mr came out he told Miss to mind the class cos he did n't get up till late .
15 Cos she asked last night , I was supposed to be taking Jenny and then when Fay came she asked me if I 'd take Fay as well today so it looks as though Charlotte 's mum did everybody took everybody home .
16 Pateman also says the only democratic element in liberal democracies is the vote and then when representatives make political decisions on their behalf the electorate renounce power .
17 Oh yeah that 's the only one I brought home , on Tuesday it was , well as soon as he saw , I brought it in and me dad looked at it and he goes yeah it 's alright , I knew he did n't like it and then when Mike got in , he said oh I do n't like that , so I said why ?
18 It hit him very hard when Rosie left home — and then when Sean got killed in the war … .
19 Registers will roll until elections are announced and then when elections are announced it will be the closing date for that particular election and polling cards will immediately be issued with massive publicity around them so that people who do n't get polling cards , discover that they 're not on registers and will still have time because they 've qualified by the qualifying date to get themselves entered onto registers within a week of the election taking place .
20 Mr Power ca n't have done because now and then when rebellion stirred during overlong film repairs he rushed down the aisle cracking a whip .
21 " And then when Joe said Lee , I immediately knew … "
22 But er and then when television come her mother was sat over it all times and she used to tell me about going to pictures .
23 God is spirit and then when Christ came , when he was born , people had difficulty , great difficulty in accepting him as being of God .
24 And then when Suzanne was she had a lot of trouble carrying her about and she had to be in hospital quite a bit
25 They had stalled him for long enough , but with a baby coming , he could n't wait any longer and then when Rachel told them she had to get married , she was thrown out of the house .
26 In 1760 he was employed , first as carpenter and then as clerk of works , at the building of Kedleston Hall , Derbyshire , under Robert Adam [ q.v. ] , an experience which constituted his architectural education .
27 They appeared in law school classrooms and law review articles , then as lawyers ' arguments in particular cases at law , then as judicial arguments in dissenting opinions explaining why the majority opinion , reflecting the orthodoxy of the time , was unsatisfactory , then as the opinions of the majority in a growing number of cases , and then as propositions no longer mentioned because they went without saying .
28 She served as its honorary secretary and then as chairman .
29 If we wish to reflect on the nature of the body we must in succession examine the body first as being-for-itself and then as being-for-others .
30 In the novel itself we meet the Russian people , the folk , only once , and then as inflictors of suffering , in Raskolnikov 's half-dream ( which is also half-memory ) of a little mare being tortured and finally clubbed to death by drunken peasants .
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