Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you want to get this visit over with , signorina , ’ he said sharply , ‘ then I had best take you to my grandmother at once . ’ |
| 2 | What on earth she does then I du n no . |
| 3 | ‘ Then I 'd better go . |
| 4 | Then I 'd better do something to prevent you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Then I 'd better get my ass into gear . |
| 6 | ‘ Then I 'd better get on with running my own business . |
| 7 | Then I do normally watch it with you . |
| 8 | But then I do n't do too badly , and people must n't worry so much about me . |
| 9 | That makes me laugh , because once I 've written a song then I do n't tend to work on it too much — I 'm too lazy , basically . |
| 10 | But then I do n't wear my heart on my sleeve . |
| 11 | But then I do n't drink any more . |
| 12 | I do n't care about anything but being safe , she thought ; I believed I cared about Fand , but I do n't , I 'm too much of a coward — I just want her to save me , and then I do n't care what happens to her . |
| 13 | But then I do n't suppose that would be enough for you , and after all this is Boy 's story mostly , he is after all in a proper sense my hero , and you have to have this Boy clearly in your mind before we can proceed . |
| 14 | And , yes , there are a couple of lines around the eyes , and a grey hair or twenty ( at least they 're all together in a neat bunch , not lurking about all over the place ) and the neck does n't look too good in some , particularly unflattering , lights , but then I do n't suppose yours would , either . |
| 15 | But then I do n't suppose it 'll matter much with twenty of us in there ; our combined breaths 'll be enough to give us a steam bath . |
| 16 | ‘ Then I do n't suppose I shall . |
| 17 | he said his mother did n't and then I do n't suppose |
| 18 | But then I do n't hold with the precept de mortuis nil nisi bonum ( I speak as a doctor , after all ) ; and it 's hard to underestimate the irritation when a critic points out something like that to you . |
| 19 | I still do n't see Lucker but then I do n't want to any more because I feel guilty . |
| 20 | ‘ Then I do n't make a sale . ’ |
| 21 | Then I do n't think they spoke another word to each other for the rest of the round . |
| 22 | If that 's the Sue I once bought a drink for — out of pity — in a certain low-rent wine bar she frequents ( Naughty Nineties postcards in brass frames and scrums of desperate shrieking middle-aged women hogging the tables ) , then I do n't think she 's telling the full story . |
| 23 | then I do n't think that we ought to go along with , for instance , just using a term like , spelling |
| 24 | I have on occasion told students that they 're doing an arts subject , and tried to encourage them to think in those terms , because if they 're constantly thinking of the job at the end of it , then I do n't think they 're getting the most out of it that they can do … . |
| 25 | Because what the Sale of Goods Act goes on to say is that if the goods contain a fault which is so obvious you should have noticed the fault while you were in the shop , or the shop assistant pointed out the fault to you while you were in the shop , then I do n't think you can really demand money back on that basis . |
| 26 | Oh yes we 've they are subscribing , and if we was n't keeping a good erm a good liaison with them , then I do n't think we 'd be here now . |
| 27 | Cos if people wo n't read the parish magazine , then I do n't think they 'll come along to the |
| 28 | Quite , providing there was only one representative , and we were n't overburdened , providing it was clearly understood that they were there almost in the same way that a local member would be , to speak on a given item , and not to vote , then I do n't think we 'd have any objections , but it 's entirely up to the Committee , how do you feel ? |
| 29 | Well the problem as I see it is that you do n't know what the variety of this peach is , if it was bought out of greenhouse variety and is reasonably tender then I do n't think whatever you do with it in Preston it 's going to make any difference . |
| 30 | erm It was really one of the guidelines , it was the , if we considered doing that then I do n't think we would have had a four nation programme or certainly a five nation programme at the start , I do n't think we would 've er stayed together , it was really one of the basic requirements not to have that capability . |