Example sentences of "but then the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then the smiles had given way to whispering . |
| 2 | I have the feeling that those of you who would want to use the mailing label feature more than any other might find the built-in database a little feeble , but then the chances are that your main database will provide all the information you require for that kind of thing . |
| 3 | But then the floor creaked and she shook her head . |
| 4 | The Magistrate , standing in hesitation on the verandah , was illuminated by a rare shaft of watery sunlight for a moment and his whiskers flared more brilliantly than ever but then the sun moved on , extinguishing them . |
| 5 | But then the system 's there to be abused and people abuse it . |
| 6 | The descent took only a few minutes , but then the man had to make a laborious return journey with the empty sledge , which might take half an hour . |
| 7 | Assuming it was one of the guests , she was about to mutter an excuse and go past ; but then the man turned to her and said , ‘ Well , Ruthie , love . ’ |
| 8 | But then the man wanted to try some town driving … he pulled over on Brantwood Rise , got the gun from his briefcase , and escaped with the vehicle , worth twenty seven thousand pounds … |
| 9 | At first they came to visit us once a month but then the visits became few and far between . |
| 10 | But then the other came at me , and the one on the top stabbed again , and I knew that now there were moments only . |
| 11 | But then the noise became so unbearable , he was forced , along with the others , to clap his hands over his ears . |
| 12 | But then the clutch of girls with grease smeared lips , the frag hags , stumbled past in a burst of squeals at the sight of Gharr the golden . |
| 13 | It could be that there 'll be a swing to the right but then the pendulum will swing back . |
| 14 | For a flicker of a moment as the policeman looked up at me I thought I had struck a wall again , but then the door opened . |
| 15 | For a moment he was n't sure if the sudden give and click was the lock opening or the key breaking but then the door almost unbalanced him by swinging open . |
| 16 | Absurd , of course , but then the question emerges : Did he allow himself to be used ? |
| 17 | ( Alternatively we could distinguish between two forms of justification , justification before the event and justification after it , and run the tripartite definition in terms of the former ; but then the question would be whether these really are two forms of the same thing . ) |
| 18 | You 're right , it does n't sound odd , but then the question is why does this all really occur ? |
| 19 | ‘ Gustave Flaubert , French writer , 1821–1880 , lived here while — ’ but then the letters shrink impossibly , as if on some optician 's chart . |
| 20 | Until recently her job was there , too — for three years she worked as a shop assistant in the hosiery department of the massive Neiman Marcus store — but then the success of Inner City allowed her to leave . |
| 21 | Until the 1860s or 1870s the natural increase in the local population was sufficient to fill the vacancies in the pits , but then the sinking of deep mines to work the Silkstone and Barnsley seams on a vast new scale increased the demand for labour to such an extent that immigrants poured in from Staffordshire , Lancashire , Cheshire , other parts of Yorkshire and elsewhere . |
| 22 | Word of Denim , Lawrence 's conceptual thrust into the 1990s , began to circulate immediately , but then the trail went cold apart from overheard rumours and the odd piece of rogue merchandising ( Denim patches and plectrums ) turning up at the NME . |
| 23 | The champagne corks popped but then the reporter told us the house had been repossessed . |
| 24 | At first , in the fading light , we could see nothing but the icy path , the snow-covered trees on either side — but then the flicker of a candle flame caught our eyes . |
| 25 | But then the BBC or Radio Free Europe would confirm the incomprehensible that this president or that queen had honoured Ceauşescu . |
| 26 | he sez they went to several addresses but then the driver surrendered himself at the police station . |
| 27 | So they just sit in the inside lane do n't they , turn up the radio , or put a cassette in , or maybe even get their papers on their lap and , thing , yes , but then the ones that did n't do this planning are the ones that you see going see them , probably you . |
| 28 | But then the work collapsed and I was faced with how empty my days were . |
| 29 | But then the Government does not run the nationalized industries . |
| 30 | It has conveniently been handed over to the training and enterprise councils , but then the Government cynically deny them the resources to do the job . |