Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [verb] back [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I stepped back and stood by the trainer 's side . |
| 2 | Then I stepped back and looked again at it . |
| 3 | Then I came back to the courts at Bisham again before going back to school again at 3pm for history and then I come back and play again afterwards . |
| 4 | I go shopping after I 've fed the baby every morning , and then I come back and start my work . |
| 5 | and then I come back and then I went to see them again and they were all on a great big table as though they were celebrating a party and Joyce said er |
| 6 | Then I leaned back and smiled at Mala . |
| 7 | Then you go back and you think : ‘ Well , although I 've done my best , maybe I have to find that little bit extra as a black person . ’ |
| 8 | Yes , you whine and you wring your hands , but then you go back and make the same mistakes . |
| 9 | and you work really hard at it and then you go back and do your |
| 10 | Five minutes , before you start it though now that it might not apply to you , you might not have control over training , and perhaps down the left hand side you put well what methods do they use and you might put the other side then you go back and suggest to your boss will you alright . |
| 11 | Then you go back and sit up there . |
| 12 | Then you go back and you think , Well I ca n't do this fifty times over . |
| 13 | If you were an ant crawling around in G– , it would seem at each node as if you were on G. The only way to tell the difference is that in G , if you go far enough in the right direction , then you arrive back where you began ; whereas in G– , the only way to return to the start is by retracing your steps . |
| 14 | You stoke the flames with all the tantalising lures of Eve , and then you stand back and laugh while I burn in your heat . |
| 15 | ‘ Then she came back and devastated it . |
| 16 | She looked away and Trent thought for a moment that she would leave it alone , but then she looked back and asked quickly , to get it out , ‘ Did your mother leave him for your father ? ’ |
| 17 | Then she leant back and narrowed her eyes with concentration . |
| 18 | Then she sat back and sighed . |
| 19 | She came and knocked on the door and then we went back and I , I said what you stopped for ? |
| 20 | We do n't , we turned the valve off , we take a bunch of newspapers and put it on top of the bricks , then we light the newspaper , then we go back and turn the valve on and let this hundred octane mixture of oil drip on the bricks and it would burn . |
| 21 | We walked round for a bit then we came back and watched The Bug-Eyed Monster Strikes Back on the television . |
| 22 | But erm when we , by the time we got into Hull I heard it on the radio what had happened and we went to the toy fair and then we came back and there was er you could see all the ambulances and everything still there . |
| 23 | That 's a procedural thing , we do one thing , we do another then we do the other , then we come back and do it again . |
| 24 | I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had |
| 25 | Er , I think they have , I think they 'd have , I think they have two buses on er er a week so and then they go back if there 's any more . |
| 26 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 27 | Turn your back they 're talking to you say they 've been nasty and then they come back and talk to you . |
| 28 | yeah , you do say yes , then they come back and then go sorry your you want to get up and |
| 29 | It seems to be that soaps are endlessly doing that , they want to say maybe nurture is actually more important than blood , but then they pull back and keep reasserting the importance of blood ties . |
| 30 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |