Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I slowed down but even then I locked up the front wheel in one of the fast corners and I fell again . |
| 2 | Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure . |
| 3 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 4 | Thus at my ease , I ate my tea and then I washed up the dirty crocks . |
| 5 | Then someone pointed out the inadequate access to the site through the maze of streets . |
| 6 | Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind . |
| 7 | She had to blink back her tears before she opened the front door , and then she ran down the short tiled path , and , throwing back her shoulders and digging her hands into her pockets , strode down to the parade . |
| 8 | Then she took up the discarded tray and looked back at him where he stood now , leaning against the wall between the French windows , his silver flask of brandy open as he sipped defiantly , watching her with a black scowl on his face . |
| 9 | Then she picked up the tall glass she had carried down with her , and which was now empty , walked sedately to the water 's edge , filled it with ice-cold water and returned to see that he had not shifted . |
| 10 | Then she picked up the dirty washing and went to the door . |
| 11 | So I , I erm , I had a lovely walk through there , and then we went out the other side of it , and it 's Highgate Cemetery . |
| 12 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 13 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 14 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 15 | Then he ran down the wooden stair , through the house , out to the lower lawn . |
| 16 | Then he searched out the little hard protruding button that was the energy of her sex , he stabbed at it with his tongue , felt her respond quickly , then urgently . |
| 17 | Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died . |
| 18 | Then he turned back the top sheet and blankets . |
| 19 | Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal . |
| 20 | Then he picked up the internal phone and pressed a button . |
| 21 | Then he picked up the fainter smells of buttercups and horses . |