Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I wandered around for a while , casting wistful glances at my tables . |
| 2 | Basically you will listen for maybe seven minutes then you switch off for two minutes then you switch on again and then you try and think well what was I listening to seven minu well you know , three minutes ago what was probably said in the last two minutes . |
| 3 | Then we went back for the long-service merit awards . |
| 4 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 5 | Hurry up and then we go out for a walk . |
| 6 | Then we sat down for a rest under a hedge , and Dana asked that typically American question : ‘ Do you want to talk about it ? ’ |
| 7 | And then they sent back for the you know the , the ones that had been there before . |
| 8 | They thump your chest a few times and call the old crash unit and then they grope around for your pulse , but it 's a very amateurish affair really . ’ |
| 9 | So it 's two days out in the field with one of our trainers or top people and then they come in for the three day course . |
| 10 | near Kettering , Don went to er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden and er I 'd been there about a year and all of a sudden there was a call in for Shorteners at so I went down on the bike and er what er the one over me who , who was elderly , well was n't over me but he was er he was on my job but the senior man on it he come in , the boss had sent him in to have a look cos the er Shorteners were complaining , and er then they rang up for one of us , he said well I 'm not leaving till I 've solved this problem so I had to go . |
| 11 | Then he rushed in for his money , a little too quick off the mark … ’ |
| 12 | Then he went in for er for teaching afterwards . |
| 13 | The dragon heaved a huge sigh of relief and politely turned his head to let out a huge smoky belch ; then he settled down for a dragon-like snooze . |