Example sentences of "and then [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Amanda had lain on the bed and made a few suggestions which insulted his experience ; he 'd fumbled hurriedly with zips and cuff buttons , his Calvinistic conscience retreating into its corner , and then exultation was running through him like the roar of the crowd the night Jim Watt had won his title . |
| 2 | He walked off in front of her and Jenna had no choice at all ; she followed and only had time to glare at him reproachfully as he opened the door and stood aside for her , and then Marguerite was there . |
| 3 | and then frieze were ten ninety nine |
| 4 | The key factors encouraging gradual absorption and then integration are being identified , while the failure of sectarianism to be completely eradicated looms large in the investigation . |
| 5 | Well , Mother 's from Glasgow and then mine are copied from those . |
| 6 | The corpse of a zebra , under the camera 's necessarily impassive gaze ( some viewers are queasier ) , is reduced almost to a skeleton as skin and then flesh are progressively stripped away by the processes of nature . |
| 7 | These illnesses — bronchitis and then emphysema being the most prominent — recurred throughout the Fifties and were provoked by a number of causes , not the least of which was the fact that Eliot was still a heavy smoker . |
| 8 | And then Squeak 's so sneaky , I probably told you this where she gets Nicky and starts cleaning her . |