Example sentences of "[coord] then they [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos an oil engine was in it for a while and then they put a new diesel engine in I think it would be nineteen thirty nine or something . |
| 2 | Yes , and one of the great ironies is that when I 'm talking to students about the nature of history , one of the first things I try and say to them is ‘ Look , do n't have this idea that there 's a great bundle of documents lying in an attic , and this is the way that history works , that people make a sensational discovery and then they write a book about it . |
| 3 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 4 | They join the army on the off-chance nothing nasty 's going to start , and then they make a shocking fuss when they 're called on to do something . ’ |
| 5 | They assimilate , they analyze , they consider and then they make a decision or act on things . |
| 6 | Now and then they passed a baby wailing outside a peeling front door in a battered pram . |
| 7 | He said no I 'm on the phone and then they took a photo and that , Geraldine was there and they tipped the whole fucking bucket on his head , he had dog ends in his hair , and everything and he went you , he did n't know what to say , and we said see you David all the best . |
| 8 | Then they went to bed again and drank and loved two nights away and then they had a party and then they made a giant salad of mushrooms and tomatoes and sweetcorn and ham and avocado and lettuce and hibernated for a week . |
| 9 | You see traditionally people used to think of an evaluation as something that was very convergent and first people gathered lots of evidence , and then they wrote a set of recommendations or conclusions , and you were supposed to agree them or follow them afterwards . |
| 10 | And some places that erm I know that in some places they have their own local way of speaking and then they speak a different way to other folk . |
| 11 | And then they heard a soft voice : |
| 12 | Um and then people say , oh yes I remember now and then they tell a slightly different story . |
| 13 | in town , and I gave them me name and me address , and then they sent a letter saying , No , you ca n't have one . |
| 14 | I know that 's difficult to provide erm , and the money 's got to be found for that , but it , it 's a mixed blessing putting elderly people into , a lot are put into our homes , which I agree are very good the majority of them , they 're very nice , but the people who 're put into them , they give up their own homes , and then they get a bit better six months later , and they say , ooh , I just want to go back to my home now . |
| 15 | Say from one till ten cos they 're the early ones and then they get a certain time , then your numbers eleven to twenty |
| 16 | And then they 'd a fancy dress at Christmas , at Hogmanay . |
| 17 | Then they went to bed again and drank and loved two nights away and then they had a party and then they made a giant salad of mushrooms and tomatoes and sweetcorn and ham and avocado and lettuce and hibernated for a week . |
| 18 | Flushed and triumphant after this orgy of extravagance , they left the store at last , keeping an eye on the time because Mabel must n't be late with the boys ' tea whatever happened and then they had a long , annoying wait at the bus-stop . |
| 19 | And then they had a points system which meant that er you had so many points and you could , there were certain foods that were just on points and er you could choose to spend your points on whatever you wanted . |
| 20 | And then they had a tip outside where the lorries backed into |
| 21 | And then they had a dumb waiter from er the main office to and and Robert 's office and and did not suffer fools gladly either . |
| 22 | They just put it on you see with a brush and it was a paste you see , all over the coach , and then they had a hose and they washed all that X mover off you see , the X mover was an acid and it ate into the you see , bodywork . |
| 23 | Robbie and then they had a boat and they went across . |
| 24 | True , they did n't show the filming of their frantic attempts to resuscitate the desperately injured girl , but they did show Kathleen emerging from Resus. , tears in her eyes , telling the cameraman to get out of her way , and then they showed a brief interview with Jack where they discussed the case in scant outline , and also her reaction to the death . |
| 25 | Yeah , quite a high one so they have a big dam to give a good head water , a good height of water , and that water comes Drops down through quite a quite a height , and then they have a turbine sort of force it into a turbine with a turbine and it really spins that turbine th that 's joined top the alternator and makes the electricity . |
| 26 | Raith Rovers are hardly world beaters but then they haf a little help from the referee who gave them a dodgy penalty and turn down two good penalty appeals in the last two minutes . |
| 27 | But then they had a habit of melting into society , and in the meantime many had been the expensive guests of the German taxpayer . |
| 28 | But then they had a cycling club , at chapel , and so we tended to go Saturdays , and then I started walking and youth hostelling . |
| 29 | A lot of them of course went to the quarries , but then they had a little steamer called the Florence Cook and she plied wherever she went and you probably know where she went . |
| 30 | They originally thought they were looking for a medieval leper hospital , but then they uncovered a skeleton almost two thousand years old . |