Example sentences of "[conj] then i [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes I killed a wild animal , and then I had meat to eat . |
2 | And then I had time to think . |
3 | and then I had supper and we bought these cakes . |
4 | I do n't know I just pressed the down yeah there was a space and I pressed the down and then I pressed backspace twice and it went back again ah I knew it was something to do with backspace . |
5 | Yeah , I did n't smoke for the first six months and then I finished work and I was at home |
6 | And then I took pity on him and lent him forty . |
7 | I did n't really believe it at first , er , and then I received couple or more phone calls from er various people in the industry who er , who were aware of it and started to congratulate me , and then I realised that it was the truth , that er I really did have a big hit record once again with Blue Velvet . |
8 | And then I felt relief . ’ |
9 | I wanted to reach 18 — and then I found Mum and Dad . ’ |
10 | I graduated in 1967 and then I did postgraduate work till 1969 and so I was in a student milieu until a year before the gay movement started . |
11 | And then I stopped farming in nineteen seventy cut it till sixty nine . |
12 | BLACKADDER GOES FORTH in which Hugh Laurie shouts too much and then I RENOUNCE WAR does conscientious objectors . |
13 | And then I start dairy work . |
14 | Yeah but I get really pissed off as well cos I well I , I wo n't like when I 'm with other people like and I talk about other pe like when I talk about Jenny and then I feel sort of like really two faced when I like start talking to Jenny and stuff . |
15 | The schemata are gardens of meditation and when I think of poetry , I am taken to the far country of Li Po , and then I see Thoreau and Jnandas and Rumi and a hundred poets ; their images throng my mind and I am moved and tears come to my eyes . |
16 | I go shopping every day , and by the time I come back it 's usually time for the baby to have her food at about twelve — and then she usually sleeps till about two , and then I cook lunch for him [ the two-year-old ] so that in the evening it 's a tea , although it 's usually a cooked tea . |
17 | And then I watched Prisoner Cell Block H is it a whole series of them ? |
18 | I 've put report down there , cos then you have science , report math 's , report and I put Ralph Gardener Community High School cos then I need space for community . |
19 | But then I had steak and mushrooms to follow . |
20 | but then I have circulation problems so I do feel the cold . |
21 | I danced until I was 18 or 19 but then I lost interest . |
22 | However , if I actually wanted to come along and learn some English — I did ‘ O ’ level English , I enjoyed it immensely , but then I did science in the sixth for and went on to a science career — can I come and study English at your school ? |