Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Then I waited for the evening to come , but the hours passed very slowly .
2 Then I asked for the inlays , two humbuckers , two volumes and a tone .
3 So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water .
4 ‘ I gave him half an hour and then I went for a spin . ’
5 Then I went for a walk with Mr Sargent . ’
6 First I 'll divulge that I went to Bristol — they 'll know that already if they 're bright enough — then I 'll say I went to this Bed and Breakfast — then I looked for a job …
7 He just ca n't put it forward , so you have to get a book and do it yourself , and then I ask for the syllabus so I can make sure
8 I listened at length to her story , then I talked for a moment about the unshakeable fact of the resurrection , about the city where God will wipe away every tear .
9 Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software .
10 Then I worked for the BBC — my favourite charity , really .
11 Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time .
12 Erm I think bro broadly , certainly by the time you 've got through to the later spring th th there is y yes I mean i in a sense there are sort of three areas if you like but , but very broadly the areas which had not been taken over yet i is very much a slower process of consolidation and then you wait for the next rule .
13 Then she went for a walk .
14 Then she thought for a moment .
15 Then we went for a walk out in the garden .
16 The traction — is referred to a set of coordinates which in classical elasticity are in the undeformed material , but in large-strain elasticity may alternatively be in the deformed material Consider at first the classical theory ; if the traction — acts on a surface with normal n then we write for the components of the traction , and the scalar product — .
17 And then we paid for a winter clean .
18 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 .
19 First she was on her own with Rose and some of the women , then they sent for the midwife , who did n't turn up , and only after that did they think to come for me .
20 Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath .
21 ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’
22 A track is laid to allow the camera to move smoothly , then they go for a take .
23 Then they go for a month to a , Sue 's going on a computing course for a day on the tenth of June , the date Clare goes to Brompton , Isle of Wight , so I 'll have to bring them home .
24 Then they came for the Communists — and we said nothing .
25 Then they came for the Socialists — and we said nothing .
26 Then they came for the Trades Unionists — and we said nothing .
27 ‘ First they came for the Jews , then they came for the communists , then they came for the trade unionists , then they came for me ’ , he repeats over a silky , mesmeric House groove , gradually adding a line each time , until he gets to ‘ and there was no-one left to speak up for me ’ .
28 ‘ First they came for the Jews , then they came for the communists , then they came for the trade unionists , then they came for me ’ , he repeats over a silky , mesmeric House groove , gradually adding a line each time , until he gets to ‘ and there was no-one left to speak up for me ’ .
29 But I mean once this strike is over , unless we come to proper agreement erm they know then that then it will be too late then cos there 's somebody saying then they came for the Jews first was it ?
30 And then they came for the Communists , I was n't a Communist so I did n't bother .
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