Example sentences of "and then [adv] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything |
| 2 | It could be and then again could n't be shingles . |
| 3 | And then where would Jeremy and Brian and David and Jonathan have been ? |
| 4 | I 'd put a dirk in one of them , and then where would you be , and you trying to convince the king of your peaceable nature ? ’ |
| 5 | Not that I 'd like to sleep in a box , mind you , not without any air — you 'd wake up dead , for a start and then where would you be ? |
| 6 | He took a step towards her and for one heart-stopping moment she thought that he was going to kiss her , and then where would she and her collection of high-minded resolutions be ? |
| 7 | Good lord ! and but for his hand going up she would really have brained him this time , and then where would she have been ? |
| 8 | BELVILLE : Aye , Lady Davers , and there we must all end , you with your pride and I with my plentiful fortune must come to it , and then where will be your distinction ? |
| 9 | But if you pare your officers to the bone , if you cut them any longer , you will not get a decent service from them , you will just have people in boxes with lids firmly placed on them and then where will the union be ? |
| 10 | You 'll be arrested some night and then where will we be ? ’ |
| 11 | Trouble was , if she appeared downstairs too soon it would look as if she was cadging a lift , and if she arrived too late they would have gone without her — and then how would she summon up the courage to go at all ? |
| 12 | And then how would you do that then ? |
| 13 | And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ? |
| 14 | Five nines and then how can we , how can we split the nine up ? |
| 15 | He was bad all through , that one , and they were good folk They wanted rid of him for good , and I think they were a bit afraid he might come back , and then how could they turn him out ? ’ |
| 16 | Hope could picture himself comforting Mrs Crump , shoring up the memory of her husband , praising him , assessing him , recalling ‘ mots ’ , reporting favourable comments , and then in would come the daughter , dressed entirely in black , and he would say , would be forced to say no matter what the consequences were , that the child was like the man . |