Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then she was short of a nursing there and then I went there for a bit . |
| 2 | ‘ But they always end up the same — I see that terrible expression on Len 's face as he fell — then I hear the thud as he hits the floor — then I wake up in a cold sweat . |
| 3 | Then I moved on to an Australian made Maton which was really playable . |
| 4 | Then I run off in a storm to see an astrologer . |
| 5 | Then I branched out into a new area . |
| 6 | Then I glance away with a smile . |
| 7 | Even then I started out as a singer , until it struck me that I 'd absolutely no chance of making it — something to do with having an absolutely diabolical voice , I think . |
| 8 | Then I wandered around for a while , casting wistful glances at my tables . |
| 9 | I ran down the pavement to get as far away from the hotel as I could , then I sat down in a doorway and continued crying . |
| 10 | Go past that , then there 's one or two ne ne newish buildings and then you come up to a spot where you drive in and you go up or over the concrete , that 's Norblast |
| 11 | Then she roared off in an estate car with the baby in the back . |
| 12 | No news for 6 months then she came along with an anal fissure , she 'd not had any stomach problems and in fact had only taken the Arg Nit LM3 for 2 or 3 days till the headache went . |
| 13 | And then and then like you know and then she went off in a mood cos I cos I go to let's me sit opposite you like hinting like oh I do n't want to sit there . |
| 14 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 15 | Then she grew still as a sudden anxious thought occurred to her . |
| 16 | The odd anecdote — for instance , James Laughlin 's of 1965 about how she advanced his education in Rapallo by reading to him the stories of Henry James — brings her momentarily into focus , but then she disappears again behind a smokescreen of gracious good breeding . |
| 17 | Then she reaches nervously for a hand-rolled fag . |
| 18 | Then she padded across to a low stool and sat down , surveying herself in the mirror that lined her bathroom walls on two sides . |
| 19 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 20 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 21 | And we used to er do a food run down and they used to come up and erm And then we went along to a to a lodge meeting th the men invited us along and I remember one of the comments back in September from one of the men was , Oh well I 'm gon na be nagged back to work soon . |
| 22 | Hurry up and then we go out for a walk . |
| 23 | Then we sat down for a rest under a hedge , and Dana asked that typically American question : ‘ Do you want to talk about it ? ’ |
| 24 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 25 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 26 | If Snotlings find themselves themselves further than 12″ away from a unit of Orcs or Goblins , and if they can not move to within 12″ of a unit during that movement phase , then they mill around in a confused mass . |
| 27 | She asked him to come to her room so as not to overhear any more , and then they went downstairs in an express lift : a glass-and-gilt beetle that hurtled the twenty-eight floors in nine and a half seconds . |
| 28 | They only used to ever lock the door from the outside and er I er had to make er fifty and as I say , number them one up to fifty and er then they 'd perhaps on a odd occasion they sent me an order for one , the number the number |
| 29 | Rohan parked the car under some trees just outside the main wall , then they walked together through an arched gateway , and up the shaded street , passing between tall houses , their windows firmly shuttered against the intrusive sun , intermingled with shops . |
| 30 | Er they done the broken metal and then they put on the top of it and then they come along with a watering cart and er splashed water on it and then |