Example sentences of "but then the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then the M-forty was built half a mile from their door . |
| 2 | But then the final few dates were dropped and Scotty phoned the office in person , to say he 'd now love to talk to us . |
| 3 | She returns to prostitution but then the final exploiter , the pimp , forces himself onto the scene and her life effectively comes to an end . |
| 4 | He 'd made his bed when he left ; that was unlike him , but then the sober man was neat and organized . |
| 5 | Later , any letter after the first can begin the next word but then the new word must include all the remaining letters : |
| 6 | But then the first son dies leaving a son and the second dies childless . |
| 7 | Yeah but then the first thing he would have done would have been got up and gone off and got it done privately . |
| 8 | But then the good old American public elected Nixon so here you had Al Capone in the White House and these same political scientists wrote books saying hey hang on , when we said more power to the president we meant more power for our kind of president , you know , Jack , you know , and L B J and the boys , not this Nixon , Tricky Dicky character . |
| 9 | The simple guilloche decoration of mosaic 7 appears slightly cruder than that of mosaics B or C. The more complicated three-strand guilloche of the former , however , is not significantly inferior to the four-strand guilloche of mosaic C. The former appears to be " stretched " , but then the latter seems to be cramped ( although " loose " ) . |
| 10 | At first , Charles found only 150 clansmen , all of them Macdonalds , waiting to greet him but then the distant skirl of bagpipes was heard and the Camerons , 700 or 800 strong , came down the hillside in orderly columns , escorting the prisoners captured at High Bridge . |
| 11 | But then the managing director of the advertising agency responsible for the advertisement owned up . |
| 12 | But then the polar explorer and his partner , Dr Michael Stroud , arrived back in Britain only yesterday from their epic 95-day record-breaking Antarctic expedition . |
| 13 | But then the dark powers rose , and the four Cities fell ; it was the most we could do to save the Treasures . |
| 14 | But then the stupid bastard stopped right in the middle of the bridge . |
| 15 | All this accounts fairly satisfactorily for the strength and weakness of glasses , with which are included natural glassy minerals such as flint and obsidian , but then the vast majority of hard solids , both natural and artificial , are crystalline . |
| 16 | Some backward tribes inhabited the remoter mountains and jungles but the main population was of the same race ; today they are known as Vietnamese but then the outside world knew them as Annamites or Annamese . |
| 17 | But then the other stuff started happening , personal things , just like a soap opera , the same sort of chaos as it was with the Jeremy/Peter/Danny saga . |
| 18 | But then the other faction , the shattered remains of the erstwhile " confident " party , had argued rather differently … far from being a sign of collapse it was , in fact , a sign of the Collector 's resolve , his determination not to submit to oppression , to fight back , in other words . |
| 19 | But then the other man seemed to regain control of himself , for the next moment he was shinning up the rope as though he had just realised his life depended on it — quite literally ! |
| 20 | straight in fron come straight in front of my car like that , and I missed that one but then the other one come ! |
| 21 | But then the other girl was like stick was n't she ? |
| 22 | The AS 350B is not cheap , but then the best things in life seldom are . |
| 23 | Dustin managed to get a part , but then the brittle Dexter , not known to suffer actors gladly , told him to kindly leave the stage . |
| 24 | But then the chilling truth dawned on Captain Gary Snavely . |
| 25 | But then the Japanese government swung into action . |
| 26 | But then the faint brows began to lift ; and Alistair thought he saw the light of recognition . |
| 27 | But then the middle classes do n't really figure in Labour 's plans , unless you count £500-a-plate fund-raising dinners at the Grosvenor Hotel . |
| 28 | ‘ But then the young man who was slotted for this spot had to back out . |
| 29 | After the morning foursomes had been shared , Yorkshire took a firm grip on the proceedings when they won five out of the first six afternoon singles but then the young players took a hand . |
| 30 | But then the Low Countries were prone to the occasional architectural brainstorm , such as the remarkable Saint-Pierre Station , Ghent ( 1912 ) . |