Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [vb past] to [noun sg] " 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 went to work in a five and ten , and gradually worked my way up until I was managing a general store . |
| 4 | Then I went to work in another factory as a machinist and I moved into a room with the child . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I watched the television for a bit , ’ said Brown shuffling uneasily in his chair , ‘ and then I went to bed . ’ |
| 7 | And then I went to bed and this morning woke up later . |
| 8 | Then we moved to the and then I went to Road School , which I finished my time there , fourteen . |
| 9 | I was in prison on remand for three weeks , then I went to court and got three years ' probation . |
| 10 | Then I went to sleep . |
| 11 | For example , today , I had practice from 8am until 10am and then I went to school and had two lessons . |
| 12 | The first time was when she called to order the piece , and then I went to Bracken Cottage to measure — ’ |
| 13 | When some boys at the school put excrement under the headmaster 's chair , he contrasted the culprits unfavourably with true school sportsmen : ‘ Last Friday I was feeling pretty low when I found out about this lot … but then I went to football on Saturday , there were several lads and teachers there , playing their hearts out or giving up their time just for the school , and then I thought , ‘ Perhaps , it 's not so bad after all . ’ |
| 14 | No , , it 's just a but he was , you know , I was fairly slow , and then I went on , I followed erm , I ended up slightly , as well , erm , then I went to college up to the age of eighteen , erm , and as soon as I finished college he made me a department manager . |
| 15 | Then I went to prison and they made the baby a ward of court without telling me . |
| 16 | Well I was thinking of walking home from the centre of the town but then I thought to hell with it . |
| 17 | In my day , you went to school , then you went to work . |
| 18 | Then you went to Valley , and . |
| 19 | Erm if you passed , erm you did a stint and then you came to College , Nottingham for your teaching ticket . |
| 20 | She passed him the tin and the spoon , and lay on the floor looking at the gas fire , and then she went to sleep . |
| 21 | And then she went to sleep again until ten , on our bed . |
| 22 | Then she went to bed exhausted and , for the first time since her terror started , slept well . |
| 23 | Then she went to bed . |
| 24 | She went home — alone — and sat in darkness staring at the blank face of the television until eleven , and then she went to bed and stared at the ceiling instead . |
| 25 | She took off the wire that held the cork in position and put the bottle beside her , then she set to work . |
| 26 | She sighed to herself and smiled to herself at Auntie 's mistake ; and then she set to work with Auntie 's sewing-machine . |
| 27 | Then she turned to Xanthe whom she could avoid kissing , to keep her unbathed body away from the young girl 's groomed presence as far as she was able without coldness . |
| 28 | And then we got to school and it was all big and confusing and there was all these boys I 'd never seen before , all with their parents and some of the kids were weird-looking with funny eyes . |
| 29 | Then we went to sleep . |
| 30 | And then we er we left school and then we went to work for to w we went to look for work . |