Example sentences of "he then [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haavikko closed the door behind him then gave a small shudder , staring at the tiny slip of plastic in his hand . |
| 2 | He then crossed a hygienic strain with a non-hygienic strain , and tested their hybrid progeny with combs of infected larvae . |
| 3 | He then produced a life-size cut-out of James Brown the Godfather Of Soul . |
| 4 | He then served a second curacy in Drumglass Parish , Dungannon . |
| 5 | He then knocked a 21-year-old girl over and kicked her in the face , before half choking and battering a 23-year-old . |
| 6 | He then made a new will : this does have the effect of invalidating the previous one . |
| 7 | He then made a major contribution to the development of the internal combustion engine , originating the use of aluminium for pistons . |
| 8 | Runner-up to Miinnehoma in a thrilling duel for the Sun Alliance at the Festival , he then landed a valuable prize at Liverpool . |
| 9 | He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists . |
| 10 | Would he then feel a certain sadness ? |
| 11 | He then announced a partial relaxation of the wage freeze imposed in the original package , but only for employees of companies which were making profits . |
| 12 | He then had a two-year stint as secretary to the Army Council . |
| 13 | Sewell made 18 consecutive League appearances for Palace , and was captain on occasions , but he then received a nasty injury in the match at Millwall on 22 February and Palace had to fight their way into Division Two without his able assistance . |
| 14 | He then added a small piece to the shorter piece of wood . |
| 15 | He then ran a gallant race when third to Linwell in the Mildmay Memorial Chase over three miles five furlongs at Sandown Park , conceding twenty-three pounds to the winner and finishing only one and a half lengths behind him . |
| 16 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |
| 17 | In general the discourse analyst works with a tape-recording of an event , from which he then makes a written transcription , annotated according to his interests on a particular occasion — transcriptions of the sort which will appear in this book . |
| 18 | He earned a lot of money and he save it , he then bought a British car . |
| 19 | He then introduced a new type of 4–4–0 express locomotive , with a leading bogie which gave much smoother and safer negotiation of curved track at speed , and these ran for fifty years from their entry into service in 1876 . |
| 20 | He then selected a similar box saying , ‘ That 's the engine . ’ |
| 21 | He then selected a particular class of neurons , recognizable by their long axons , measured the length of each dendritic branch and counted the spines on each , which lie then calculated as number of spines per µm — that is , millionth of a metre — of dendrite . |
| 22 | Prone to throwing the stage into complete darkness , he then allowed a single candle , or dancing firelight , to illuminate his face , while the stage manager cast a white calcium beam on the actor 's head . |