Example sentences of "then [vb past] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the name of J. J. Marric he then produced from 1955 onwards a series of books written round a police officer by the name of Gideon . |
| 2 | In the violent argument which followed , Coleridge was prevented from running at his brother with a knife by the return of their mother , and then fled from the house , still in an ‘ agony of passion ’ , stopping only when he reached a hill overlooking the River Otter a mile from the town . |
| 3 | In the final and decisive Jan. 6 attack , 60 highly trained security troops abandoned the President , who then fled from the back of the building . |
| 4 | The police say he then fled from the refuse truck , running into the timber yard . |
| 5 | Cleo glanced up at him and then rose from the bed . |
| 6 | She then rose from her seat and bowed , leaving Finchingfield 's fond aunt seething . |
| 7 | The bats then erupted from their roosts like all the demons of hell , screaming , whirling and excreting partly digested fruit over the full length and height of the ship . |
| 8 | And then sailed from Montreal , I was going to go back my , it was my intention to go back to New York , but I changed my mind at Montreal and sailed down the St Lawrence from Montreal , back to Glasgow . |
| 9 | The crucial innings then came from King , who hammered 50 off 39 balls to help the score to 196 ; England needed 260 to win , with time not a problem . |
| 10 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |
| 11 | To rub it in he then scored from a free-kick ( which he was allowed to take a second time ! ) . |
| 12 | Patel then drove from his Johannesburg home to Pretoria prior to the Wallabies ' departure for Port Elizabeth to try and rescue the tour . |
| 13 | However , he then faded from the scene and afterwards said : ‘ I had a lot of clutch trouble and I 'm bitterly disappointed for I thought I had a real chance . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Nor can I ever lose sight of that flood of tears which then poured from his eyes , when reluctant nature was constrained to resign a beloved child to the cold arms of death . |
| 15 | Drew then withdrew from the 200 metres and I was asked to run . |
| 16 | His close rival , the Maharaja of Rewa , reached a total of 500 and then withdrew from the contest . |
| 17 | Wallace then withdrew from the contest after running 51 7 miles in 7 7 hours . |
| 18 | She gave a tiny smile , brave but near tears , and then vanished from the screen . |
| 19 | If a section was held responsible for an offence ( as it was if someone outside the section was offended ) the victims would hold the section responsible ; but even though the section shaikh made the peace , he had no power to collect from the lineages in his section : he had to get the agreement of the lineage shaikhs , and they then collected from their members . |
| 20 | Such a change may also have social implications , the rise of individuals having the wherewithal to employ a craftsman , who then benefited from the arrangement personally and who could distribute the products to the surrounding region . |
| 21 | Sergeant Bird followed him into the parkland at a leisurely pace , then watched from behind a tree as the fugitive made three attempts at the lowest portion of the wall . |
| 22 | Wilson , in the last minute , then broke from full-back , came full speed on to Coleman 's pass , and the Bradford defence was cut open again . |
| 23 | He belched , scratched his stomach , and then stumbled from the room . |
| 24 | He then took from his pocket a filthy blue handkerchief , reversing it so that his small audience could examine both sides . |
| 25 | She found her own register in its usual place and then took from the ‘ Tuesday ’ pigeonhole the one marked ‘ Line Drawing and Water-colour ’ . |
| 26 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |
| 27 | A FAMILY 'S jinxed trip to Disneyworld started in disaster , turned to horror … and then went from bad to worse . |
| 28 | He grinned at her , then went from the yard . |
| 29 | The signalman guffawed at his own punchline then disappeared from view , closing the window after him . |
| 30 | When she spotted me , she touched her glasses and smiled briefly , then disappeared from the window . |