Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] then [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They are being sold as ‘ wolf fur ’ for about £400 in German shops , but are actually imported from the Far East where thousands of dogs are purpose-bred and then slaughtered , says the Animal Protection League . |
| 2 | The very worst time to take out a bond is when rates are low but then rise dramatically and unexpectedly , as they did at the end of the 1980s . |
| 3 | The very worst time to take out a bond is when rates are low but then rise dramatically and unexpectedly , as they did at the end of the 1980s |
| 4 | Because it 's no good saying you 're interested and then going to ask your mother or father if you could talk a violin home and they said no I do n't want you practising at home I do n't like the sound of it or whatever . |
| 5 | The turkey and black vultures at the park are well-fed and then scared into bringing up their food to supply the chicks . |
| 6 | In the first year Armstrong 's concern is to go for a minimum safe agenda — ‘ make sure clients are safe and then build on that . ’ |
| 7 | After curing , the hams are soaked and then simmered , black treacle usually being added to the water in which they are cooked . |
| 8 | In France , mustard seeds are soaked and then ground to a paste . |
| 9 | I will have to be patient and then build up my knee for next season . |
| 10 | But another , in the Sunday Times , announces a page-long article under the banner ‘ The cure that failed ’ , goes on to boast of ‘ How we broke the story ’ ( in 1989 ) that treating AIDS patients with AZT might not be valid and then went on to complain that ‘ doctors , en masse , have taken up [ AIDS ] as a crusade , at the expense of science ’ . |
| 11 | The aim of this research is to establish in precisely which respects this characterisation may be true and then to explain why such a pattern has emerged . |
| 12 | If you talk about believing the Bible to be true and then go out and pick on someone who you do n't get on with , your friends may remind you that the Bible has something to say about Christians loving their enemies ! |
| 13 | They laughed a little hysterically , and whispered to each other to be quiet and then laughed again , drunk with the joy of touching hands and the scent of their bodies in the dark . |
| 14 | She heard you were pregnant and then told us that she was . |
| 15 | Police believe the women were raped before their bodies were mutilated and then thrown into the sea.Mike Dolan reports |
| 16 | I know you said you were extra and then going to freezer shop or summat . |
| 17 | In carefully structured interviews on the concept of God with three and four-year old children she found that if she began by asking them to distinguish between objects which were man-made and ones which were natural and then to speculate about origins in each case , a majority of the responses referred to the natural objects being made by God or an unknown power ( almost half and half responses on this ) . |
| 18 | Lewis was retaliating at the sight of captain Leighton Duley being head-butted and then kicked while on the ground . |
| 19 | In order that these children did n't get suspicious of his works , they were brain-washed and then placed with families on campus . |
| 20 | He knew how to break one rock with another rock so they were sharp and then used them to make a point on a stick . |
| 21 | He warned : ‘ In politics you should decide what is right and then decide the presentation not the other way around . |
| 22 | The librarian must gather together , lovingly and with care , the best imaginative literature and factual material that is available and then proceed to get it used . |
| 23 | With a beach start everyone is allocated a position on a short line on the beach , the race organiser checks everyone is ready and then signals the start . |
| 24 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |
| 25 | In an adjournment debate in the Commons earlier this month , Mr Hood claimed that Mr Muncie 's ‘ luck ran out ’ for his favourite method of investigation — deciding who was guilty and then gathering evidence to prove it . |
| 26 | He waited until the Ilyushin was clear and then started a slow turn to his right , using the power on the left engine in conjunction with the rudder . |
| 27 | The Bishop waited until it was dark and then ferried across the river to Wouldham and made his way to Boxley Abbey for safety . |
| 28 | She was disconcerted and then enthralled by Lenny Bruce 's spitfire monologues , his explosive mix of four-letter words and Yiddishisms which hit at the gut of hypocrisies . |
| 29 | He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds . |
| 30 | Senga waited until she was sure her mother was awake and then asked softly , " When 's Patrick coming back ? " |