Example sentences of "then [pron] be this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I was this music 's gon na come down |
| 2 | And then there 's this girl called Susie , saying to her , she 's getting all her clothes off and all that . |
| 3 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 4 | And then there 's this boy . ’ |
| 5 | tip your coke , why do n't you tip your coffee back in there and then there 's this coke |
| 6 | Then there 's this letter writer , or rather , these letter writers . |
| 7 | First I 'm called ‘ darling ’ by an actor and then there 's this apparition of loveliness . |
| 8 | Then there 's this fellow sucking at the stub of a fag with 3 fingers pinched in , mirroring his mouth attitude . |
| 9 | Then there was this thing that I constantly talked to the press . |
| 10 | Then what is this nonsense you 're giving me ? ’ |
| 11 | But then what is this habit of trying to penetrate to people 's inner life ? |