Example sentences of "then [pers pn] would [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I would pour moss killer over it . |
| 2 | If someone needed something , then I would contribute solutions from my file ; but unless there was a need , it was a waste of time to try and peddle them . |
| 3 | But if it is military evidences that you are pursuing , then I would leave Tarbes and go instead to the splendid castle of Montaner , a few miles to the north-west — not quite Pyrenean I will admit , but near enough and certainly good enough to be brought in here . |
| 4 | If you want to learn a language that will get you somewhere quickly and without much effort then I would advise Pascal — Turbo Pascal being my favourite — or Basic , and QBasic in particular . |
| 5 | ‘ If you take sugar as having 100 per cent the right taste , then I would say sucralose is in the range of 70 to 75 per cent , with aspartame a little behind it , ’ Shaw says . |
| 6 | Now what I 've done here is just put that in a table saying that if score A has a negative Z score , then you would expect score B to have a negative score . |
| 7 | then you would take account of environmental issues . |
| 8 | Then she would do housework , but it was such an austere cottage that there was hardly anything to do . |
| 9 | And then she would tell Peter firmly but gently that it was all off . |
| 10 | And then she would make coffee for my mother . |
| 11 | She would allow herself a few more hours with him , and then she would practise self-discipline . |
| 12 | She had confessed her sin and done her penance , but then she would encounter Sister Matthew John again and the same unworthy thought would pop back into her head once more . |
| 13 | If he forced his way in then she would phone Reception and have him ejected ! |
| 14 | So it looks as if er nature has kind of erm struck a bargain in this respect , that each parent can contribute exactly half , but I think it 's , we 're only just beginning to find out about what happens then and my guess is about internal conflict between genes because I strongly suspect that there must be a lot of that going on because , as I think you 've rightly seen , if we take this view of evolution as selecting for individual genes , then we would expect conflict even within the gender . |
| 15 | If organisations are pluralist in nature such that different groups and individuals can influence the decision-making process then we would expect competition between these groups who will represent different interests . |
| 16 | Then we would prepare breakfast , which would mean fetching the water and collecting wood for the fire , which the men usually did , while two women would be in charge of making the tortillas . |
| 17 | If we only opened a door partly er there is room for somebody to hide behind it and then when we go into the room then we would encounter problems . |
| 18 | Then we would sail south to Easter Island to explore the mysterious statues before going to the mutineers ' refuge on Pitcairn Island . |
| 19 | Now we 're dealing with the year about eighteen ninety-six onwards , and the filmmakers of this time erm would make this large number of short films , make several in a day if they had the , if the , they had the opportunity and the subjects , and then they would print catalogues of these pictures and market them . |
| 20 | Two others , wearing raincoats over their underwear , would be waiting at the bar or similar , ready to join the fray shouting ‘ Boozebusters ’ and things like ‘ Your wife/secretary/boss is taking you out of here now ! ’ and then they would spray foam , throw cards , pop party-poppers and so on and drag the victim out to a waiting fast car . |
| 21 | It was also assumed that if people had more of their gross income to spend as they chose then they would purchase goods and services that they wanted rather than the state spending money on goods and services for which there may be little or no demand . |
| 22 | If the other Devon districts were in fact the chief suppliers of patients and users of the big hospital facilities then it would make sense for management and costs to be handed over to them . |
| 23 | If physics is to be taken as the acme of scientific knowledge , then it would make sense to try to emulate the methods that physics uses to gain its knowledge , and where else could one go for this by way of a shortcut but to philosophy , the discipline that has been endlessly preoccupied with the foundations of human knowledge . |
| 24 | then it would make sense if you 're gon na continue doing that |
| 25 | I 'm , I 'm sure that would happen , but Lithuania , if , if it had the er complete independence to er choose it 's own trading partners , it 's own defence partners , then it would make sense for Lithuania to have some sort of a a trading arrangement with the old communist block and . |
| 26 | That 's fine but sentence six Florence teased Dougal , and did so Brian too does n't sound right but notice that 's exactly what you would get if you could substitute the proform for a subject verb construction and then it would mean Florence teased Brian too . |
| 27 | Then he would change people quite often when it did n't suit him to be with them any more . ’ |
| 28 | Every now and then he would spit blood onto the carpet . |
| 29 | Then he would give J. a leer in the morning , ‘ Had another late night , have we ? ’ |
| 30 | If what he believed was really happening , then he would need Duncan 's support . |