Example sentences of "then it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this was a genetic accident , then it had tremendous significance in regard to unintentional evolution to homeothermy and great species longevity . |
| 2 | East Anglia and the South-West continued to grow , as did the South-East until 1966 , then it experienced net loss owing to the massive haemorrhage from the capital . |
| 3 | If you have no social life or circle of friends when you start your single lifestyle then it requires more effort on your part . |
| 4 | Plenty of dual instruction is needed to be safe , and then it requires constant practice on high approaches to be able to sideslip effectively . |
| 5 | Then it seemed weak . |
| 6 | Then it seemed unkind to leave Daisy out , so she was invited too . |
| 7 | All I had ever known was that very dull — at least , now I call it dull , then it seemed secure and eternal — but life at the vicarage was dull . ’ |
| 8 | I just thought of the poem , standing there , and then it seemed clear . |
| 9 | Then it passes this living tube of glue back and forth across the junction of the two leaves until a white silken sheet has been created , linking them . |
| 10 | Then it buries those it can not eat , one at a time , in different parts of its territory to be retrieved later when times may be harder . |
| 11 | Then it grew louder . |
| 12 | And then it fills one side up then . |
| 13 | And … and then it felt all wrong again … |
| 14 | Well , we got friendly , Mary and me , and it just happened , then it became regular like … ’ |
| 15 | Then it became softer , and died away . |
| 16 | Then it became apparent that the advertised service to London every 15 minutes had been reduced to a 30-minute service . |
| 17 | Then it became apparent that she was holding to some other lodestar . |
| 18 | Then it became obvious that she was in trouble . |
| 19 | Then it became darker , the trees denser , thicker , hemming them in on all sides as Thomas guided their horses along some secret path known only to him . |
| 20 | Finally , foreign museums started contacting the Ministry of Culture and asking if they could buy , let us say , a picture by Malévich or Popova , and then it became clear that I had the pictures . |
| 21 | Then it became clear . |
| 22 | Then it became ten performances , same fee . |
| 23 | surplus there is , and then it redistributes that surplus and given that the , the , the priority is industrialization most if not all of that surplus is going to go to the industrial sector . |
| 24 | You have to be black and live in a place like Deptford : then it sounds believable . |
| 25 | yes , and then it says ordinary management services |
| 26 | Aye , it does , then it says welcome to Humberside . |
| 27 | So light bulb , when you turn on it gets warm , then it gets hot , then it gets red hot , then it gets white hot . |
| 28 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 29 | First , like , twenty minutes and then it gets good . |
| 30 | So light bulb , when you turn on it gets warm , then it gets hot , then it gets red hot , then it gets white hot . |