Example sentences of "then [pers pn] would [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was my work , then when she came down on duty , she would sit one side of the table with her books and I would sit the other and count all the money , you see , then I would take this money er , in a bag , through on to the black through the , past the ticket collector and take it to the booking office and they took it from me and took it when they took their money to the bank , you see . |
| 2 | Brilliant , but then I would say that . |
| 3 | If the distance between bait and bullet was , say , 12 inches , then I would have 12 inches of line that would be out of my control . |
| 4 | Then you would have six men ashore that carry it away and stack it but course now today they do n't do that . |
| 5 | the costs , and if , if we had n't got the supervisors then you would have all made a proportion |
| 6 | Then you would need two of the , two of these sheets if you were doing two conversations , but only one if you 've done one . |
| 7 | E two , now you 've got to work out the average speed , right try and think roughly what the answer would be , because if you thought of that , then you would know that 's a silly answer , cos look , how far is the journey ? |
| 8 | She 'd phone Steve later and find out what he was doing and then she would use any information she had about him and Maria Luisa to irritate her way out of the Casa Pinar . |
| 9 | On some days they seemed absent from the area and then we would detect two or three in the course of the next patrol . |
| 10 | If experimentally it is shown that there is no difference in the number of plural continuations which occur with two names and with two roles , then we would conclude that common description type ( rather than description content ) is a major force in controlling the likelihood of plural reference . |
| 11 | Similarly , if score A has a positive Z score then we would expect variable B to have a variable Z score . |
| 12 | If we accept the ‘ cohesive mass segregation ’ argument derived from the work of Kerr and Siegel ( see above , p. 108 ) , then we would expect all isolated mining communities to be equally strike-prone . |
| 13 | If the two sets of scores are positively correlated , then we would expect positive Z scores to occur together and similarly negative Z scores should be paired . |
| 14 | If lithospheric extension occurs primarily along such detachment faults rather than by thinning throughout the entire zone of lithospheric extension , then we would expect opposing passive margins to display a marked complementary asymmetry ( Fig. 4.19 ) . |
| 15 | If we used only the same newspapers then we would miss new developments which added to the range , while if we did add to the sample then we were not comparing like with like . |
| 16 | We think it 's essential reading but then we would say that would n't we . |
| 17 | I think our view is that if that provision was to be any greater , then we would have significant difficulty in accommodating that provision within our part of Greater York , primarily for for greenbelt considerations , not reasons , erm any additional provision would require a rolling back of the greenbelt , er significant provision would have two implications , erm either it would mean peripheral expansion er of York into the greenbelt around York and into our district , we feel that would adversely affect the special character of York , lead to outward sprawl of the York urban area , encroachment into open countryside , and coalescence of the urban area with the villages in our district , er and we we would n't want to support that . |
| 18 | there are times when we think that if we really had faith , if we really believed , if we were true Christians then we would have this peace and serenity about us . |
| 19 | Between there and the A fifty nine to the east , we would have one single er arrow or triangle and then we would have another arrow or triangle between the A sixty one and the A fifty nine to the west of Harrogate and similarly another arrow between the A fifty nine and the A sixty one south of the A fifty nine , down to A sixty one south of Harrogate . |
| 20 | Then they would head due north , bypassing Italian-held Jalo , to the rendezvous point in the Jebel mountains . |
| 21 | It was easier going to the house — he and Richard 's wife Pat used to swap wartime evacuation stories with each other and then they would play verbal tennis , making conversation out of the spoken lyrics of Forties ' songs — than going to the theatre to see other actors , as they sometimes did together after the run of Public Eye . |
| 22 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 23 | If homo sapiens is unequivocally demarcated from the rest of the animal kingdom by the language barrier then it would seem reasonable to accord something like honorary status to those existing in its image , as it were , but otherwise enfeebled through age or retardation . |
| 24 | If a deviant sentence can be normalised by adjusting its grammatical structure — for instance , by changing the order or syntactic category of elements , or by adding , substituting or deleting one or more grammatical elements — then it would seem reasonable to suppose that its deviance is grammatical in nature . |
| 25 | However , where the job was a very difficult one involving areas where it might be impossible to gain access even with scaffolding , and the reservation had been specifically drawn to the consumer 's attention , then it would seem reasonable to rely on the clause . |
| 26 | If the new husband 's financial status is not acceptable to the mortgagee , so that the mortgagee is only prepared to agree to a conveyance of the property to the wife and new husband if the husband remains liable under the original mortgage , then it would seem reasonable for the husband to comply only with the terms of the court order or matrimonial agreement ( to which of course the new husband is not a party ) and not to convey/transfer to the wife and the new husband . |
| 27 | Then it would seem romantic . |
| 28 | If then it would seem artificial to analyse and describe the whole process when asked the reason for my choice , is that not because I already have the vocabulary of pleasure to name it ? |
| 29 | It is not clear whether they are issues in which Marx was ever really involved ; if he had been , then it would seem likely that they would have played a more important role in his later work . |
| 30 | If income is part of ‘ ability to pay ’ , then it would seem clear that wealth is also . |