Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb past] to a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Well then I went to a private school on Road , two maiden ladies kept that , and we were taught to er walk properly , sit properly , dance , music , learnt the piano there , and embroider , and erm chiefly the educational side of schooling was almost non-existent .
2 Then I moved to a different teacher to get some more , you know , experience .
3 And then she came to a small rise in the land and there was a man , his head under his arm .
4 Then we listened to a nice concert on the radio , did n't we ? ’
5 And then we went to a few Western shops to get our costumes for the Urban Cowboy premier .
6 And the first was a twelve volt but then we came to a hundred and ten so I just strung it down along the two top wires of the fence and they were live and oh there were about six or nine hen houses attached to the fence with those wires for electricity .
7 Then we came to a smashed yellow stone façade and a doorway that led down into a cellar .
8 Okay , so they got the base line measurement , thirty five percent people use them , then they went to a variable ratio er token economy system .
9 Then they retreated to a special lunch prepared for them , where they knocked back around seventeen Martinis apiece .
10 The pavement had been much repaired , and it was difficult to synchronise his steps so that the middle of each foot fell exactly on the cracks between the paving stones , but with some concentration and a few judicious half-steps he managed it ; then he came to a long blue-grey line of asphalt where a pipe had obviously been repaired , and walked along that instead free from the worry of the paving stones between the cracks .
11 Then he went to a huge formal dinner .
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