Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 But then I put two pounds , which should have been off Linda 's .
2 Yeah they go to mush and then I put more taters into it later on , about twenty minutes before I need it , but it thickens it so they 'll eat it .
3 And I 'll do mine so I had three sixty and I split it as a ten times thirty six and then I had two times five for that ten okay ca n't go any further there .
4 we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out .
5 Just then I heard distant voices , Silver 's among them , and hid behind a tree .
6 Just then I heard light footsteps in the passage .
7 Then I saw two men hitting each other , others running , some falling down .
8 Then I saw some pictures of these Zamaitis guitars and thought they were such beautiful instruments that I 'd want to try to get one .
9 So I accepted a job with him , and then I got two offers the next day , one with the savings bank , I think it was , and one with someone else . .
10 Mind you I was I was still on three years in in colours and and then I got nine years reserve to do after that .
11 For instance , last year I got an open at Pembroke , Cambridge , and an exhibition at Trinity Hall , Cambridge , and then I got half-a-dozen places .
12 We have a short paper which I ask people coming for a job to read through , and then I ask some questions to see what sort of person they are .
13 ‘ My mind was fixed on the tribunal most of the day , then I spent four hours travelling up for what I thought would be a place on the bench .
14 And then I spent six months in Peterborough doing paediatrics , erm working in the special care unit with all the premature babies with incubators and not fluffy hot water bottles
15 Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually .
16 Then I spent three years there and it was only three weeks after I 'd left that I was offered the part of Russell in Butterflies .
17 But then I love growing houseplants .
18 ‘ But then I love beautiful things , do n't you ? ’
19 She said and then I have two weeks erm homework to mark and then we have a weeks holiday I thought well that 's two weeks
20 I will leave them behind me and go only with the clothes on my back , and then I have two miles and a half and a byway to the town , and bring pretty well dressed I may come to some harm almost as bad as what I ran away from , and then , perhaps , it will be reported I have stolen something , and to carry a bad name to my dear parents …
21 but when she 's not there then I have real problems .
22 If , on the other hand , I am taking six ferrets then I need two boxes — one for four as already described and another for the remaining two animals .
23 Now if you said to me er I wou to be able to get myself fixed up with a car then I need two weeks and that that suits us anyway you know if if you wanted to start next week and everything went right fine .
24 You have until that cloud above you moves past the sun , then I string this peasants ’ spawn from the nearest tree .
25 The best I have ever managed is to replace the stitches one by one on to the needle hooks with a transfer tool and even then I lost more stitches ( and had to ‘ save ’ them ) than I transferred successfully .
26 I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour .
27 Tell you what we 'll sing it again and then you pick some bananas that look like bananas in pyjamas that are singing really well .
28 We 've said find three quarters by finding one quarter first and then you take three times it .
29 And then you teach these games to other people .
30 And then you got seventy pounds worth of food vouchers as well , that 's two hundred quid in n it ?
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