Example sentences of "but then i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 2 | I picked out notes where he had just screwed up totally , but then I went back to the beginning again and realised that the whole song was just shifted . |
| 3 | ‘ But then I think back : going cap in hand to the IMF , raging inflation 20 to 25 per cent ; the awesome power of the unions . |
| 4 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 5 | But then I found out just how hard life could really be . |
| 6 | ‘ My first reaction was ‘ meals on wheels ’ , ’ he laughs , ‘ but then I found out what a big organisation it was and that what they did appealed to me . |
| 7 | But then I found out lots of people have got pregnant , they just had abortions . |
| 8 | ‘ But then I found out all the others were too — Barbra Streisand and Gene Kelly , the director , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , I know , ’ conceded Lydia , ‘ but then I dash off somewhere else to see something different . ’ |