Example sentences of "then [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said ‘ tell me more ’ , then revealed himself as the reviewer of the DOE proposal and only later suggested that we collaborate … |
| 2 | She crossed the carpet and handed him his whisky , then seated herself in the armchair opposite him , smoothing her slim skirt over her knees . |
| 3 | Walking 's real difficult now , and I have to stop every now and then to steady myself against a wall or a lamppost . |
| 4 | I took off my rings and jewellery and put them in my handbag then lowered myself over the cliff edge . |
| 5 | She grabbed the chairback , her head thick with drugged sleep , then lowered herself to the floor and sat there cross-legged . |
| 6 | Loosely linked to it were the emerging environmentalist movements ( the link being forged by a deep suspicion of advanced technology which had raised the spectre of nuclear holocaust and then manifested itself in the devastation inflicted on Vietnam ) . |
| 7 | Re then described himself as the creator and related his names of Khepri at sunrise , Re at noon and Atum at sunset . |
| 8 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
| 9 | The police claimed she had escaped and then hanged herself from a tree . |
| 10 | The car left the road , smashed through an 8ft garden wall and then buried itself in the house , on a busy corner of a housing estate at Matson in Gloucester . |
| 11 | There is a tradition at Borwick regarding the gallery , that in the days when there was anxiety over Border raids and the beacons were prepared ready for alarm , the women drove the cattle from the fields to the courtyard , which at that time was grassed , and the barmkin ( a grassy enclosure ) , and then stationed themselves on the gallery to spin and watch . |
| 12 | Relax deeply , then imagine yourself on a mountain path . |
| 13 | She shivered , then stirred herself in the water . |
| 14 | A market participant with no initial assets perceives the possibility of making large profits by buying up all the available supply of a given resource , and then establishing himself as the monopolist producer of a particular commodity . |
| 15 | The young man said he would tell her when to get off and then busied himself with an oilcan among the driving wheels . |
| 16 | She then busied herself around the room , the implication quite clear : I was to drink up and get out as quickly as I could . |
| 17 | The convicted Harley Steet rapist again misused his trust , drugging and then forcing himself upon a woman whose baby he had delivered . |
| 18 | The boy looked up at the plane , then threw himself to the ground . |
| 19 | Some mythic elements seem to be transformations of this cult practice , for example the episode where the young goddess Britomartis leaps into the sea to escape the clutches of Minos , or the contest at Aptera between Muses and Sirens which ended in the defeat of the Sirens , who then threw themselves into the sea . |
| 20 | They came with their ideals , found idyllic peace in the countryside , where a man could hardly fail to notice God in the quietness ; said their prayers in one of the fairest little parish churches in all the land ; reacted against , and then threw themselves into the orderliness of quasi-monastic life ; and studied what they wanted , and thought about truth . |
| 21 | She began to yell furiously , then threw herself on the ground , red-faced with rage , stamping her feet and screwing up her eyes . |
| 22 | You need one of those slave-driving old studio bosses if you ask me , not a sensitive graduate who went into movies because he liked the clouds in Antonioni and then turned himself into a nouvelle vague Deutscher all hot for Truthspiel . |
| 23 | The barbarian pulled himself to his feet and slung his treasure bags into a sack that hung from the saddle , then hauled himself onto the beast 's back . |
| 24 | Instinctively all on the walls and ramparts ducked , even Seton , who then cursed himself for a fool . |
| 25 | That the real Peter Lawton killed six people and then killed himself on a motorbike less than two weeks ago ? |
| 26 | ‘ The Master took them quietly from his person and told him such things were not allowed to be introduced into the workhouse , he then placed himself in a fighting attitude and threatened to knock the Master 's teeth down his throat , thereby setting bad examples to others ’ |
| 27 | An attacker throws a right punch which is blocked with an outside palm , which then wraps itself around the attacker 's wrist in a grabbing movement . |
| 28 | The mother 's face crumpled up and withered , then corrected itself to the expression of one who is in the right . |
| 29 | Liz Spalding squatted down on the floor , winked at Nick , then covered herself with a blanket . |
| 30 | Daak spent a few minutes kicking the remains of the pilot out of the front of the cockpit , and then settled himself into the pilot 's bucket seat and swivelled lazily from side to side , waiting for the women . |