Example sentences of "but then [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , they enjoyed looking out of the windows , but then they became sleepy . |
| 2 | But then they become curious and try it . |
| 3 | And erm but then they 'd all Margaret and erm everybody had jumped on the bandwagon and said , . |
| 4 | But she remembers the Co-op having its first shop just , still in High street , but half way down , but then they had this prime position right on the corner , you know and it was a marvellous , a good Co-op I always thought . |
| 5 | But then they said this Casey was a cop . ’ |
| 6 | They ca n't stand on one leg and then they 're waggling their foot about and missing the ball all together and you think anyone can kick a ball but they ca n't but then they get better at it . |
| 7 | But then they fall asleep , and Gollum returns , to see and for a moment to love and aspire to the ‘ peace ’ he sees in their faces . |
| 8 | But then they need more and more heroin , and they need more money to buy the drug . |
| 9 | ‘ But then what do these Ministry Inspectors know about education ? ’ resumed the headmaster hastily , discarding doubts as quickly as he had assumed them . |
| 10 | ‘ But then we go straight back . |
| 11 | ‘ Distribution always seems to improve during the Christmas period , ’ he said , ‘ but then we bypass inefficient distributors by going direct to the excellent wholesalers . ’ |
| 12 | Well that 's what I felt , but then we had that outbound planned , which was cancelled |
| 13 | You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ . |
| 14 | They 'd start er you know one man gen mentioned er that when we get married in church erm we are making sacred vows you know we start with God but then we get busy with our living and our jobs and having our families and then somehow we forget about God and we we try to go on without him . |
| 15 | but then we do that at the start |
| 16 | But then we stole one Polo shirt and that was it . |
| 17 | But then we have present a male human being who , in some sense , is considered unique . |
| 18 | He took down the painting and planned to leave with it , but then he heard Sabine and a man shouting in the lounge . |
| 19 | But then he murmured half under his breath something to the effect that ‘ the boy had cost him much suffering ’ . |
| 20 | But then he booked one trip too many . |
| 21 | He had been better able to tolerate it ten years ago , but then he had drunk alcohol to be like other people and to impress , not because he liked it . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's wonderful , ’ said the man , but then he saw four Scots sitting at a table without a drink . |
| 23 | She tried to fob him off tactfully at first , but then he became brutal . |
| 24 | He certainly liked men more , but then he liked manly men not ‘ bloody queers ’ , so he had to be all right . |
| 25 | ‘ But then I said that after number three ! ’ |
| 26 | But then I thought this might not be understood by many people , and also , by the time it got to the Augean Bulls and the Birds of Stymphalus , it would be a little recondite for people like Terry Coleman . ’ |
| 27 | Why have you , I thought I saw one but then I thought this is staff I think . |
| 28 | But then I put two pounds , which should have been off Linda 's . |
| 29 | Initially , I had much support but then I became introverted . |
| 30 | I thought she was being sarky about my bouquet but then I realized all the rooms were named after flowers . |