Example sentences of "would [verb] [conj] then " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd introduce and then I 'd . |
| 2 | I 'd grumble but then pay . |
| 3 | And out would come the people to the door , course they could n't see anything or anybody , back they 'd go and then you 'd do it again . |
| 4 | What , what people had , had Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and they perhaps came for their order on the , or their weekend joint on the Friday and I 'd make the whole ticket up and they 'd pay and then that ticket would be torn off and if they wanted that meat delivered on the Saturday , that would be delivered with that ticket on the top . |
| 5 | ‘ I liked the way that , we 'd be on the bandstand playing and he 'd just be walking around and playing and just look at you and kind of tip his head , you 'd play and then he 'd start playing when he wanted you to stop ! |
| 6 | So the moment the shout was heard , one of them would rush and then try to provide what was wanted on the instant . |
| 7 | Much to the consternation of the operators , Humphrey 's shabby figure would appear and then disappear into high-speed machinery . |
| 8 | I thought that , if I did n't listen , soon he would stop and then we would go home and life would start again , the way it had always been before . |
| 9 | Allen thought that if they were delayed long enough the Friar would return and then something might be done … unless it was the Friar who had betrayed them . |
| 10 | But th to go back to the the polishing , it really was it was you know , really hard work and But there was a great band of I mean the the used to Different firms that would h have a lot of work on one place and then they would move and then some would go to the shipyards . |
| 11 | In the course of time I would die and then it would all be over . |
| 12 | She beat on the tree with her fists , she threw her arms as far round the tree as they would reach and then , despite the relentless rain , the saturated ground and the penetrating cold , she fell on her knees at its foot , unable to muster the will to walk on . |
| 13 | She would have to find an envelope and buy a stamp ( where was the post office ? ) and post the letter and then a day would pass and then Mrs Rundle would take out her spectacles to read the letter in some new kitchen , with a refrigerator and a stove with automatic oven-control and an eye-level grill and gleaming plastic working surfaces and an electric blender and an electric coffee-mill , probably . |
| 14 | We realized that each of us would be a big story for a few days , but that would pass and then we 'd be able to get on with the real work of getting to know our families and friends again . |
| 15 | They would drink and then her jealousy , usually over his current leading lady whoever it might be , would come to the boil and Bogie would goad her until the bottles were whizzing past his head . |
| 16 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 17 | And that things would tend to drag on to the last minute and then they would start and then it would it go forward . |
| 18 | But the wisdom of age told me that this parabola of promise would not be maintained indefinitely , but would peak and then decline . |
| 19 | It rarely blinked , but sometimes the lids would close and then reopen , as if consciousness were slowly drifting away . |