Example sentences of "[conj] then [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do believe that then for the first time it dawned on people that Northern Ireland was a series of Catholic and Protestant ghettoes . |
| 2 | And then after the first seven or eight s cuttings , then they used to come along stooking . |
| 3 | Now there was a theory in the south of England , that when one retired , for the first year , you dumped most of your lump sum into premium bonds on the hope of a big win , and then after the first year you invested it , you see , having taken the big win . |
| 4 | And then in the first place you 're getting enough money you can you can bash it away and that 'll pay for your furniture . |
| 5 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 6 | The Russian heroic tenor , Alexei Steblianko , from the Kirov in Leningrad is the least comfortable with a French accent , but then on the first night he was battling with a throat infection . |
| 7 | The Russian heroic tenor , Alexei Steblianko , from the Kirov in Leningrad is the least comfortable with a French accent , but then on the first night he was battling with a throat infection . |