Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Declarative sentences identical except for different incompatible terms in parallel syntactic positions ( besides those used in the test ) are frequently in a contrary relationship : if I cycled to work is true , then I walked to work is false , but if I cycled to work is false , then I walked to work may be either true or false . |
| 2 | Declarative sentences identical except for different incompatible terms in parallel syntactic positions ( besides those used in the test ) are frequently in a contrary relationship : if I cycled to work is true , then I walked to work is false , but if I cycled to work is false , then I walked to work may be either true or false . |
| 3 | Then I waited for orders . |
| 4 | and then I returned to Rhodesia again |
| 5 | I sent this amazing jet of spray on to the sleeping bags and then I said to Babs that we should next get Andrew to do a version of Handel 's Water Music . |
| 6 | Then I began on custom and practice — a fascinating subject , because so much depends on precedent rather than formal agreements . |
| 7 | Then I experimented with T'Ai Chi . |
| 8 | Then I fell for Darren , my second son . |
| 9 | Then I fell in love with Tom , who is everything I 've ever wanted in a partner . |
| 10 | ‘ My brother left me alone in the room with him and I loathed him on sight … then I eventually liked him and then I fell in love with him . ’ |
| 11 | And then I fell in love with Tom years before he even looked at me . |
| 12 | Then I heard about Aunt Emily 's death . |
| 13 | Er and then I heard from Australia that they were going into the engineering exhibition in Melbourne and I offered them er a mobile display and they came back with one or two added ideas and so I changed the specification again . |
| 14 | ‘ Then I ran into Matthew and I asked him if he 'd seen his uncle . |
| 15 | Then I went to work in a five and ten , and gradually worked my way up until I was managing a general store . |
| 16 | Then I went to work in another factory as a machinist and I moved into a room with the child . |
| 17 | ‘ I was in the house until Chris arrived around ten , then I went to work in the little field behind the house where we grow our vegetables ; I was there until nearly one . |
| 18 | ‘ I watched the television for a bit , ’ said Brown shuffling uneasily in his chair , ‘ and then I went to bed . ’ |
| 19 | And then I went to bed and this morning woke up later . |
| 20 | Yeah well I was only in Gwindy for three years , then I went to Lewis Girls because I lived this end of I had to go to I loved Gwindy school . |
| 21 | Then we moved to the and then I went to Road School , which I finished my time there , fourteen . |
| 22 | ‘ And then I went to Los Angeles , and I spent Thanksgiving on Malibu Beach , and there was a picture window — he stared around him at the shoebox room and rejected it — ‘ let's not exaggerate , but it would stretch from here to the lift . |
| 23 | I was in prison on remand for three weeks , then I went to court and got three years ' probation . |
| 24 | Then I went to Sesostris . |
| 25 | No tomorrow , I went into town and then I went to Emma 's |
| 26 | Then I went to sleep . |
| 27 | For example , today , I had practice from 8am until 10am and then I went to school and had two lessons . |
| 28 | And then I went to Hereford for six months and I did er six months of medicine , and that was a long way from home in Essex and er we all sort of er mucked in and er made our own entertainment and cooked for each other and that erm was quite a good time . |
| 29 | The first time was when she called to order the piece , and then I went to Bracken Cottage to measure — ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I left in 1940 to join the RAF , which I stayed with until November 1945 , and then I went to Hacker Rubens & Co which has now become Hacker Young . ’ |