Example sentences of "then they [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person . |
| 2 | But then they tend to get promoted and move on to other things . |
| 3 | And only then they seemed to live : |
| 4 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 5 | ‘ The police were searching the whole area but then they seemed to realise that it must be the van . ’ |
| 6 | However , if the inhibitor was injected at such a time that RNA synthesis was inhibited while the animals were being trained on the maze , then they failed to remember it when tested on it later . |
| 7 | Even then they failed to catch a glimpse of the plane , it had been immediately engulfed in a fifty-foot-high curtain of water and spray . |
| 8 | If she did not do what they wanted then they managed to make her feel wrong or stupid . |
| 9 | Julias Lukasiewicz , from Carlton University in Ottawa , Canada , said that if new high speed trains were to be successful in North America then they had to include a new track like the Japanese Bullet trains or the french TGV . |
| 10 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 11 | Although they did n't , they did n't act illegally , they did n't say right , we 're going to make the redundancy payment act , but what they did say you retire at fifty , we will make your we will enhance your pension to what you would have got at age sixty , we will enhance your lump sum to what you would have got at age sixty and erm give you a redundancy payment from the firm and obviously everybody fifty and plus they 've gone in thousands , they had enormous waiting lists and then they had to say no , you ca n't go you know , too many people wanted to go . |
| 12 | Then they had to brace themselves to pass the few people standing along the church wall . |
| 13 | Seventeen year old Ritu Vasudeva spoke of how her family sheltered in their house for a month for fear of being taken to one of Saddam 's guest hotels , then they had to forge exit papers to enable them to escape . |
| 14 | I cleared that and fixed the vice up and they said I could do that and I used the and that in their place and er then they had to quit the premises completely , did n't they ? |
| 15 | Then they had to stop for a rest because they were so tired . |
| 16 | Then they had to go and pump water for the stock . |
| 17 | Some got as far as Rhodesia and the high altitude was n't any good so then they had to go on to Cape Town . |
| 18 | No you could n't I mean er at you know the the doors would n't be open be I mean you know , you could picture a wardrobe without a door , but you were working you were sandpapering that on the inside and er maybe brushing it up and down and then sandpapering that again and then they had to go over with what we call the rubber . |
| 19 | Particularly during the French wars , no merchant might be willing to take them , and then they had to remain in Newgate prison . |
| 20 | Then they had to survive the River Severn eel harvest — most are sold to East Europe and Germany where they 're a delicacy . |
| 21 | Then they had to work out what to do . |
| 22 | By then they had to have mastered the device . |
| 23 | But then they had to come back and resume their lives . |
| 24 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 25 | And then they had to walk . |
| 26 | That was a great week because they felt they were getting it for nothing , till it come to the end of the quarter and then they had to pay it . |
| 27 | Then they had to smelt the ore . |
| 28 | He says that first the farmers set fire to the road , then they had to get through the drivers ' blockade . |
| 29 | At first the going was so firm that they could travel comfortably at 50 miles per hour , but then they had to head north and traverse what is known as the Grand Sea Erg . |
| 30 | Then they go to jail . |