Example sentences of "then again " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then a quick advance again and then again nothing . |
| 2 | I 've met one or two schoolteachers , but then again they 're a bigger group in society as a whole . |
| 3 | Then again for reasons of established cultural preference we had to go back to the Audit Commission and ask them to translate £6.358 million into ‘ real men ’ , for we had difficulty in trying to sell such an alien concept to the police mind . |
| 4 | No one seems to have asked whether the Staff College could have taken on this job , but then again such anti-intellectualism is apparent even in the Bramshill Scholars ' Association . |
| 5 | I looked at my watch automatically , and then again more carefully . |
| 6 | Then again I cried out in terror , wordlessly , ‘ Who knows ? |
| 7 | Then again , this passion for wood could be related to a lack of fibre in his diet . |
| 8 | Then again , retirement was mentioned after Wembley . |
| 9 | Then again , it was relatively approachable Carter . |
| 10 | But then again this is the one form of cricket they are reasonably competent at . |
| 11 | But then again , how is the individual management to know if it happens to be one of those which ought to acknowledge a responsibility to maintain or lower prices , or whether it is one of the lucky ones which can be let off that responsibility ? |
| 12 | Oh God , not another ; perhaps it will be easier to wade the river , but then again perhaps not … |
| 13 | These are the central feature of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico , but then again skulls and skeletons are commonly used as emblems of the transience of life in seventeenth-century Spanish painting . |
| 14 | Then again you may be taken from the detention centre to Pentonville Prison and locked up there if you complain . |
| 15 | Then again , perhaps a scaled down 5-series would have been too predictable . |
| 16 | Henry Cotton , who won the Open in 1934 and 1937 and then again in 1948 kept up British hopes . |
| 17 | The chief inspector looked at it , then again at Mrs Browne who was Nora Fanshawe grown old . |
| 18 | Then again , English at Oxford was on the defensive against the other faculties . |
| 19 | I went round with him twice : once just before dusk , then again at six o'clock the next morning after a filthy , freezing night . |
| 20 | His throat had stopped tickling , but then again perhaps it never had . |
| 21 | Then again , Everton 's goal at the Baseball Ground was scored against the run of play and Falco can punish any lapses today . |
| 22 | ‘ But then again , my favourite song in the world is ‘ Wonderful World' ’ by Louis Armstrong . |
| 23 | In the first half of the seventeenth century the traditional Elizabethan style carried on , unabashed by fashion ; then again there was the purely classical Queen 's House at Greenwich , built by Inigo Jones , as radically different to the former as chalk is to cheese . |
| 24 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |
| 25 | Then again , his fast-bowling policy , more than any other factor , has hastened the decline of the spinner , a decline that has been hugely to the game 's detriment ; and with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of young speed men reaching the Test team and creating further successes , there is little sign that the decline might be halted . |
| 26 | Squeezed it once , then again , then again , and again and again . |
| 27 | Squeezed it once , then again , then again , and again and again . |
| 28 | Then again , they peel their apples with fancy , little knives instead of savaging them with their gnashers . |
| 29 | Then again , he 's just a likely to throw in a reference to the riddle of the sphinx or the Greek muses . |
| 30 | The force-push of expanding gas on the piston is multiplied by the leverage effect of the conrod , then again by the leverage-increasing effect of gear pairs before it reaches the driving wheels . |