Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] then [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am disheartened by C&A 's corporate clothing attitude and have decided that if the sleeve of my record must remain blank then I shall boycott C&A from now on , and my feet and bottom will remain bare until we settle this like grown men . ’ |
| 2 | He says the basic idea is if you understand what 's going wrong then you can design any therapy sensibly not on the hit and miss basis it 's been done in the past . |
| 3 | Well if you want them to stay pretty as opposed to going baggy then you 'll need to have a bit of lycra in the fabric . |
| 4 | If you trap them they get annoyed then they 'll sting you . |
| 5 | However , if it gets bottomless then I would think everyone will be pulling out in hordes . ’ |
| 6 | At 8.55 a.m. , school checking-in time , the teacher at the gate would check your fingernails and your ears , and would take a pencil and pull it through your hair — if the pencil got stuck then you would be sent home to tidy up . |
| 7 | If this proved successful then they would , in the longer term , extend the experiments to find out what conditions were best for building controlled fusion reactors . |
| 8 | And if you have recently tested EFC-negative then you may be facing 10 years of bitter medicine , without any guarantee that a full cure will be found for your distressing condition . |
| 9 | This does not mean , however , that they could not easily become unrestricted by a future change in policy : if the fleet of cars subsequently becomes superfluous then it would be nonsensical not to put the fund back to where it originated . |