Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So then I had to put in for another grant because he 'd smashed every damn thing . |
| 2 | Then I had to save up and buy myself a black dress for the afternoons when the housemaid was out , you see . |
| 3 | I were just so psyched up on Wednesday and then I had to go in on the Friday before so I did n't |
| 4 | But then I had to go out and buy another one … ! ’ |
| 5 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 6 | Then I had to go back and bury my two pets and comfort Annie and Jack . |
| 7 | No , no , no you 've got it the wrong way round , I went , I brought you here and then I had to go back cos I was in the Royal Marine Police |
| 8 | And then I had to run down to Mrs 's when Dawn stayed with mummy while the ambulance come to tell Mrs and Mrs says do n't worry Jean , I 'll sign you in the day just go ahead and put your mum in the ambulance . |
| 9 | Erm , I went on a diet last year , to one of these clubs and , within record time got to the weight I was supposed to be , calorie counting and then I had to come off and I found for weeks after feelings of terrible guilt if I ate |
| 10 | Then I had to come back — and into this — and do you know — ’ ( he leant towards her ) ‘ even now I close my eyes and think of her , otherwise I ca n't make love — ’ He was still living on that charmed island of experience in the past . |
| 11 | And then I had to come back . |
| 12 | Then I had to come back and read Shakespeare . |
| 13 | If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway . |
| 14 | Then I try to work out what was good about it , and maybe try and copy the outfit a bit . |
| 15 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 16 | Then I went skipping round to the cottage to see Miss Louise before I went to school . |
| 17 | a proper one , hi Holly , alright love , so I went , left it and then I went called back last night after college and he said oh I have n't done it yet come on he said we 'll whiz it on the band saw , put it on the band saw and he 'd taken two nails out that you could n't see you know the , the old stamped cast iron ones , the ends had snapped off |
| 18 | Then I went shopping down at Lillywhites and bought a pair of swimming shorts , a Speedo swimcap and a pair of swimmer 's goggles . |
| 19 | It 's hard to tell , cos I always seemed to be awake , but then I remember waking up with a jump when this voice comes over the loud speaker . |
| 20 | and then I like to turn over to me right . |
| 21 | ‘ Then I 'd moved out , when I had a job with a doctor in Blackburn , and she was very bored , I think . |
| 22 | It was Desmond who put me on the game — that lasted for a few months , then I got fed up with it . |
| 23 | Then I got to get back to work . |
| 24 | Since then I 've settled down to 8st 4 . |
| 25 | I was in Buenos Aires , then London , then I have to go back to New York , on to Montreal and then Frankfurt . |
| 26 | ‘ In the meantime , as I told you , I have an errand to do , then I plan to stop off in the village and have a bite to eat . |
| 27 | I think it was then I tried to work out her relationship to Gómez , but the complexity of it made it difficult to grasp . |
| 28 | I sit there for a bit longer , till I finish my coffee , then I decide to go out and have a look round the station . |
| 29 | And I was very upset for the first day , then I started settling down . |
| 30 | Ben sped from the blocks with his usual electric start in the final , and for a while I was behind Desai Williams , but then I started to come through strongly . |