Example sentences of "then [vb base] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't take me to bed then make me wait . |
| 2 | Perhaps she would go and finish her wine , and then make her escape . |
| 3 | Want to sort of put on the top of the wardrobe and then make it drop |
| 4 | So we 've got and then d' ya think we 'll like get poetry and then we 'll get our last ? |
| 5 | He kissed her with suppressed violence , then let her go so abruptly that she almost lost balance . |
| 6 | The mother 's job is even more exacting ; while remaining true to herself and her needs , she must at first embrace her baby in the closest hold , and then let her move away in steps of her own . |
| 7 | ‘ Then let her sing Arsena , ’ smiled Gesner . |
| 8 | Since Lucy had said it , then let her talk . |
| 9 | But if Mrs Longhill felt better that her servant had fallen from grace in distant Barnswick , then let her think it . |
| 10 | ‘ White , would you think ? ’ she asked , her voice a high squeak , then let her breath out in an explosion of relief as she heard the shop door open and close . |
| 11 | ‘ Then let them carry your wheelbarrow . ’ |
| 12 | They 've rubbed shoulders with Spinal Tap on the West Coast , they 've ‘ schmoozed ’ with David Cassidy , Brinsley Forde and Huey Lewis at a San Francisco garden party , they 've been driven around the Hollywood Hills in a convertible by an A&M rep who then let them stare at his Moray eels , smashed , for two hours . |
| 13 | Bring the palms back to shoulder height , turn the palms to face down and then , as you breathe out , push the palms down and then let them rest at your sides . |
| 14 | He squatted and started to pick them up , then let them drop back to the floor and just crouched there and put his hands over his face and started to cry . |
| 15 | ‘ Then let them go elsewhere . ’ |
| 16 | Acknowledge their existence and tell yourself that you will think about them later — then let them go . |
| 17 | All you have to do while sitting at home or at work , or on a train or bus , is to tense up the arm and leg muscles , then let them go , saying to yourself ‘ I am relaxed ’ . |
| 18 | Now take your concentration to your hands , make fists and squeeze them together and then let them go . |
| 19 | Erm I 've had one comment from the people in Nottingham , that er we need to have a clearer idea of exactly what we want from people , and then let them go away and and read more detailed bumf in more detail . |
| 20 | But it 's important not to say they 've only got two minutes for something , and then let them go on for ten . |
| 21 | He trained the bees whose ocelli had been painted to a food dish , and then let them dance to their unpainted hive mates under an electric light bulb . |
| 22 | ‘ Then let them talk . ’ |
| 23 | Let everything out into the open and then let them hurt you with it . |
| 24 | If they 're whingeing because they have n't got quite the times they hoped for , then let them complain into your shell-like ear for a change . |
| 25 | If that 's what the women want , then let them have it , and if anyone accuses me of ulterior motives such as laziness , squeamishness or Freudian anxieties about symbolic castration by infant sons — I deny it all . |
| 26 | But if the Tories opposite truly believe that they are the poi Party of choice , then let them have the courage to call a General Election . |
| 27 | We 'll eat stra virtually fairly soon and then let them have a look at them . |
| 28 | If the adults feel guilty , then let them take it to supervision . |
| 29 | On the one hand , Parliament did not trust the police enough to give them the power they wanted and then let them get on with it . |
| 30 | Note that to get the divisions to operate as we wish , all we have to do is to impose a transfer price and then let them get on with it . |