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Example sentences for "for then"

  • Besides, they say dough will be leavened sooner in the full, for then, though the leaven is scarce proportioned to the meal, yet it rarefies and leavens the whole lump.

  • If the woman be also of Israel, so much the better; for then we may expect faithfulness without jealousy.

  • For then I could answer, Everywhere, except Rome.

  • For then he was in full enjoyment of his greatness as lord over the lives and deaths of millions of other men, and this feeling made him proud and happy, and fully conscious of his exalted position.

  • Let my head fall, no matter how or when, if you but love me; for then I shall still be immortal; for a moment in your arms is an eternity of bliss.

  • Which do trouble and perplex me to the heart; and more at noon when we were to go through them, for then above a whole hundred of them followed us; some cursing, some swearing, and some praying to us.

  • He seems to doubt what the King of France will do, in case an accommodation shall be made between Spain and him for Flanders, for then he will have nothing more easy to do with his army than to subdue us.

  • Davenant's desire that he would not, for then he might shut up house, and that is true.

  • If John Ridd lived until the year 1740 (as so strong a man was bound to do), he must have seen almost a harder frost; and perhaps it put an end to him; for then he would be some fourscore years old.

  • Nay, for then, surely, her heart would have warned her.

  • There's no danger of that, said she; but to be sure I would not; for then I should be hanged!

  • SAY: I will not follow your wishes; for then should I have gone astray, and should not be of the guided.

  • He said, "God forbid that we should take but him with whom our property was found, for then should we act unjustly.

  • God: For then will he destroy you by a punishment.

  • Pelle was almost wishing he had been alone, for then he would have gone on to the end.

  • He dared not tell his father what had happened, for then he would be obliged to repeat the boy's ugly accusation, too; so he went about in dread of the fatal consequences.

  • For then I think I should put him out of harm's way.

  • My Lord Egremont says the Whigs can't be in danger, for then my Lord Hartington would not be gone a-hunting.

  • I told my Lady Yarmouth it had been a great loss to me that there was no queen, for then I suppose I should have had a watch too when I was robbed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for fear; for himself; for his; for instance; for myself; for the reason that; foramen magnum; foreign commerce; foreign devil; foreign invasion; foreign land; foreign mission; foreign service; forest fires; forest products; forget what; forgive you; former journey; former letters; former lives; former part; former period; former slave; formerly used; forth from; true porcelain