Example sentences of "[conj] then [pron] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I waited there for what seemed ages , and then they put me in a room on my own and told me to put on a paper gown . |
| 2 | And then they heard me tearing out of the sound-web . |
| 3 | If it 's s something like that and they tell me the amount of furniture and if two thirds of the van will be filled with big stuff , and then they tell me there 'll be half a dozen boxes , I assume there 'll be at least four times that number of boxes , and if it 's still going to go on , we 'll do it . |
| 4 | And then they sent me a questionnaire saying they understood that he 'd he 'd given my address , and was he res , was he still resident ? |
| 5 | When I got back I had bed rest for a couple of days and then they had me scrubbing the houses and that . |
| 6 | And then they got me to sign a form , they did n't say what it was for . |
| 7 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 8 | and erm and then they tried me on painting . |
| 9 | Like , Friday night all the boys came up and then they picked me up and we did n't come back . |
| 10 | They wrapped my feet in foam and then they carted me off . |
| 11 | So and then they gave me an injection in the back . |
| 12 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 13 | After that came my Marx and Schweitzer phase but I started getting greedy and wanting them all rolled into one and then somebody told me that we 've got to learn to love ourselves , so I tried that but it seemed a bit selfish . |
| 14 | Oh I do n't want the arguments of about who was helped , okay you carry on , you argue , that 's alright number five , read it and then somebody tell me what it means . |
| 15 | Well , we had about an hour of this and then she asked me if I had any romantic plans of my own . |
| 16 | in vouchers , so he said yes , and then she tell me she said our dad will give me money , she said the , the to help out with that , she 'll have about three holidays next year |
| 17 | And I feel really guilty , I think oh I better bring her in and then she wakes me up at six o'clock bouncing on the bed ! |
| 18 | And then she wanted me to sort of layer it in which would look better cos she wanted to keep the fringe longer . |
| 19 | And then she phoned me up . |
| 20 | They sold it Christmas Eve day it was gon na go through the twenty third , Christmas , the day before Christmas erm it was gone and they were supposed to fly over to Spain and they were gon na , gone , exchange a contract to sell it and then she phoned me back and she said I 've got some good news for you , we 've decided not to sell , it 's so beautiful up there and it 's called Los |
| 21 | Yeah cos she used to get me t , and then she rang me up one day when I was and said dad erm dad ca n't bring me round there cos the car 's not working , can you come and pick me up ? |
| 22 | I told him not to be silly and then he stabbed me . |
| 23 | He gave me a sort of world-weary look — and then he told me . |
| 24 | I found some brandy and it steadied him a bit … and then he told me he 'd been to Angy 's flat and found her dead . ’ |
| 25 | And then he told me a hilarious story about the way in which the chairman of the committee , I 'm not sure quite what particular branch in the world he 'd come from but he was looking at the figures , I suppose it was an accountant looking at the , the figures saying now why is it that the amount spent on district nurses has gone up ? |
| 26 | Brom not Brompton Barracks , Barracks , and I saw him there first of all and then he told me they were going send me to Tidworth . |
| 27 | One came round and sold me sheets and then he offered me a loan . |
| 28 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 29 | And then he asked me , he said , Well , have you read that notice on the board about er scholarships ? |
| 30 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |