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Example sentences for "then would"

  • Then would I rejoin him as best I might, and close to the place where I might fix on means of getting over.

  • Then would we thank the king; but he bade us wait for a little, putting his hand on those great parchments with the seals.

  • Then would I not ask him for men as I had been minded to do, knowing what a strait he was in, and that his words were only too true.

  • Then would I thank him, but he stopped me.

  • Then would I have given all the world to be able to go thither and comfort her--to draw her to me and soothe her as a brother might his sister.

  • Then would we not reject the signs of our Lord, but would be amongst those who believe!

  • Then would we not deny the revelations of our Lord but we would be of the believers!

  • Then would he change his note and sing this following, to the tune of What care I how fair she be?

  • I were caliph, even for a single day, then would I punish this wicked man in a fitting fashion.

  • Were this not so, then would I straightway ride to the Euphrates, and hurl the thing into its depths; for, knowing what I know, I can never now lay finger on it again.

  • Then would he have slain him for dread of his wrath, and heaved up his sword, and therewith Merlin cast an enchantment to the knight, that he fell to the earth in a great sleep.

  • Then would I have balmed it and preserved it, and so have kept it my life days, and daily I should have kissed thee in despite of queen Guenever.

  • Then would he say to Sir Dinadan, And ever I may meet with Sir Tristram, he shall not escape my hands.

  • Then would I drown My single one; And to thy praise A concert raise Of hallelujahs here below.

  • Thus do I make thy gifts given me The only quarrellers with thee; I'd loose those knots thy hands did tie, Then would go travel, fight, or die.

  • Then would to God that I had never seen't!

  • Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here.

  • Then would I have his Harry, and he mine.

  • If drunkenness were irremediable, and beyond the reach of legislation, then would I accept her remedy as the final resort.

  • It was evident that further attempt of the sick man to relate his experiences with these archconspirators then would be unadvisable.

  • Listening intently to every sound, he would answer me mechanically, then would get up, slowly yawn, and shuffle toward the window fronting the street.

  • Glancing each way, he then would be seated.

  • Then would a third stand up and answer, 'Let us turn to the King Shaddai, and so put an end to these troubles.

  • Then would I bring from far Colchis the famous Fleece of Gold that King AEetes keeps guard over!

  • Then would I perform a deed that would make my name and the name of my city famous throughout all Greece!

  • Then would I do that which in my youth I often dreamed of doing!

  • Then would he remind them of the Felicity which the Dutch and Catalonians enjoy'd, who had shaken off the Spanish Yoke.

  • Then would he mention the Summons which had so much exasperated the Nobility, and by which they were commanded to attend the King in Catalonia.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "then would" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    then asked; then back; then boil; then carried; then drain; then dried; then expanded; then glanced; then goes; then home; then left; then lift; then occupied; then presently; then replied; then roll; then sent; then shall; then started; then that; then the; then turned; then upon; then was; thought itself; told the