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 ?
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