Example sentences of "he then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , knowing it would be hours before he woke , he got up and fetched his wei chi set , smoothing the cloth ‘ board ’ out on the floor before him then setting the bowls to either side , the white stones to his left , the black to his right . |
| 2 | you lost him then got him back and then he died ! |
| 3 | With a tiny shudder he passed the hard knot of tension from him then looked up again , a faint smile at the corners of his mouth . |
| 4 | Mind you if she thinks she likes him then go for it ! |
| 5 | The policeman frisked him then reached for his handcuffs . |
| 6 | Graham shoved Laidlaw away from him then turned to Sabrina and untied her hands . |
| 7 | But even while the Shah shrugged of such schemes , saying that this was not 1953 he also seemed to feel that the allies who had saved him then had somehow betrayed him now . |
| 8 | He put the plate down on the counter in front of him then lifted her on to a stool . |
| 9 | The men working with him then walked out and demanded that the firm concerned , the Mercantile Lighterage Company , should order him to join . |
| 10 | Those who saw him then say he seemed to shrink into himself and lose what ever vestige he had till then retained . |
| 11 | David McPherson had deceived John O'Donnell , 25 , into going to Argyll with him then delivered him into the hands of several other men . |
| 12 | Then the Burewala Bombshell started to work Smith over , kicking a bouncer high over him then hitting him in the box , before having him caught for a duck , pushing to midwicket as he swung his body behind a fixed forward prod : 27 for 2 . |
| 13 | Haavikko closed the door behind him then gave a small shudder , staring at the tiny slip of plastic in his hand . |
| 14 | Plastic tubing , 7ft of it , appears on stage with him then disappears up his nose into what I presume is his stomach . |
| 15 | And you got away from him then did n't you ? |
| 16 | Davide sighed ; with Tommaso Talvi he had been hungry for experience , but now , he wondered what had impelled him then to want so much , everything , travel , influence , money , work , before he had ever touched a woman ; when now he sang arias of extreme emotion , when he grieved and sobbed his passion in La Forza and Boccanegra and La Traviata , he thought of young men in the future bursting their hearts for his daughters . |
| 17 | He then measures the circumference C of one complete circuit around O. The result for the flat surface F drawn in Fig. 3.4 is . |
| 18 | He then thanked them for their help during the appraisal period . |
| 19 | He then progresses to a simple upper body garment , such as a sleeveless vest or loose T-shirt . |
| 20 | If he then varies or strays from the agreement in an unsatisfactory way you are only asking for trouble if you do n't act promptly for full recovery . |
| 21 | He then summed up the situation in brusque style for the policeman at the other end . |
| 22 | He then wore it daily for years and , on occasion , nearly sacked people if it was temporarily mislaid . |
| 23 | He then followed Duncan through the small terminal to where they could look out of the window at the tarmac ramp , on to the military side , where Duncan had seen the transporter . |
| 24 | He then followed up , in 1938 , with his classic study of the slave revolution in Haiti led by Toussaint Louverture — ‘ The Black Jacobins ’ . |
| 25 | He then cut her longish locks into a classic , chin-length bob . |
| 26 | The Old Bailey heard he then cut her up before taking parts of her body on the Underground system to be dumped outside a women 's refuge . |
| 27 | The Old Bailey heard he then cut her up before taking parts of her body on the Underground system to be dumped outside a women 's refuge . |
| 28 | He then robbed a pub at gunpoint in Mid Wales . |
| 29 | He then wrote A Handbook of the Trip to Liverpool in which he gave every detail of the excursion . |
| 30 | But what if , when the testator had instituted an heir to a share , he then wrote ‘ I ask , Lucius Titius , that for your share you be content with 100 gold pieces ’ ? |