Example sentences of "were [adj] [conj] then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard you were pregnant and then told us that she was . |
| 2 | Police believe the women were raped before their bodies were mutilated and then thrown into the sea.Mike Dolan reports |
| 3 | I know you said you were extra and then going to freezer shop or summat . |
| 4 | In carefully structured interviews on the concept of God with three and four-year old children she found that if she began by asking them to distinguish between objects which were man-made and ones which were natural and then to speculate about origins in each case , a majority of the responses referred to the natural objects being made by God or an unknown power ( almost half and half responses on this ) . |
| 5 | In order that these children did n't get suspicious of his works , they were brain-washed and then placed with families on campus . |
| 6 | He knew how to break one rock with another rock so they were sharp and then used them to make a point on a stick . |