Example sentences of "then [vb base] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they then insist you take out this insurance so if you 're off sick |
| 2 | Do n't take me to bed then make me wait . |
| 3 | Perhaps she would go and finish her wine , and then make her escape . |
| 4 | Want to sort of put on the top of the wardrobe and then make it drop |
| 5 | It intends to demo the stuff at NeXt World next week and then sell them separate from NeXtstep . |
| 6 | Songs like ‘ High As A Kite ’ , ‘ Drop The Bomb ’ and ‘ Highway 's Gate ’ scrape the sky and then bring it crashing down to earth . |
| 7 | interviews and so on , and then bracket you know any situation where people meet er and |
| 8 | Head of Department : ‘ We make an assessment on three criteria , then combine them to give a mark out of 10 . ’ |
| 9 | Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out . |
| 10 | ‘ To run after me like this , and then say you do n't want me ! ’ |
| 11 | If you have to disagree with the other person , give the reason first then say you disagree |
| 12 | Those who saw him then say he seemed to shrink into himself and lose what ever vestige he had till then retained . |
| 13 | Yeah and then say I do n't want it |
| 14 | And then say I want to go to toilet and then I should pinch something |
| 15 | So we 've got and then d' ya think we 'll like get poetry and then we 'll get our last ? |
| 16 | Lobbies were unheated and so if you hung your coat up wet then wet it stayed . |
| 17 | I then want you to write down as many of the words as you can remember and in any order you wish . |
| 18 | ‘ You ca n't make love to me like that and then expect me to carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not good if you have to tell a player that you do n't want him after the season then expect him to give 100 per cent . ’ |
| 20 | It 's a cruel thing and especially to hit a boy on his right hand and then expect him to write with it . |
| 21 | Do not encourage a young dog to jump up and greet you , for instance , and then expect it to abandon this behaviour at a later stage . |
| 22 | Together for an instant and then smash it 's all gone still its worth it . |
| 23 | He kissed her with suppressed violence , then let her go so abruptly that she almost lost balance . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Then let her sing Arsena , ’ smiled Gesner . |
| 26 | Since Lucy had said it , then let her talk . |
| 27 | But if Mrs Longhill felt better that her servant had fallen from grace in distant Barnswick , then let her think it . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Then let them carry your wheelbarrow . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |