Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The till was now 20 deep with impatient customers clutching their coffee pots and blenders — and then I discovered the real bane of the shop assistant 's life : The Haggler . |
| 2 | Then I discovered the Bulgarian women 's choirs , ‘ Le Mystre Des Voix Bulgares ’ — it 's really funny to hear this stuff come screaming out of your subconscious and out through the amplifier … |
| 3 | Then I left the surveying surveyor civil engineering I went in the black gang . |
| 4 | Then I ascended the narrow stairs to his doorway . |
| 5 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 6 | Then I unlocked the main door . |
| 7 | Then I heard the front door close and the sound of his car going down the road . |
| 8 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 9 | photographs to the drawings , then I write the technical explanation of how artwork that interrelates with each other . |
| 10 | Then I saw the spare figure of Captain Robins walking towards me , bag in hand : even on land after such a short voyage he had the kind of rolling gait that proclaimed him a man of the sea . |
| 11 | Then I saw the small monster too . |
| 12 | I figured I must be the only fool who was trying to start something ; I was trying to get that big BB King sound and then I saw The Fabulous Thunderbirds , with Jimmie Vaughan on guitar . |
| 13 | And then I saw The Real McCoy that was the last one I think . |
| 14 | I thought about leaving a few of Simon 's visiting cards around , or suggesting they all get together and build a glider in the loft , but then I saw the frosty-eyed Matron in a blue uniform and matching hair rinse clocking me from behind the desk . |
| 15 | Then I saw the top tier of the cake and that has got to be the er piece , piece de resistance I think as the French say and I know that some very exciting ideas are coming out of the South East region . |
| 16 | Then I saw the senior registrar , who had already been briefed by the house officer about my history of abuse . |
| 17 | Then I remember the unopened letters , the reminders from the grey and fog-bound north . |
| 18 | I hope that , that the assembly will not take this addendum and then I hope the two boards concerned will take on the issue as Mr suggested . |
| 19 | I thought of the luxury we were enjoying ; our comfortable beds , baths , and motor cars , and then I recalled the ancient custom of giving a man selected for the sacrifice a royal time of it before the appointed day . |
| 20 | Then I enjoyed the good Pinewood Studio British film and stood for ‘ The King , ’ at the end of the show . |
| 21 | If I lost , then I got the final reward . |
| 22 | well you see then I thought the electric running it you know |
| 23 | Then I remembered the new subway . |
| 24 | Then I switched the dim hall light on , and experienced again the initial impact of the tobacco wallpaper and chocolate paint , the threadbare linoleum , the high gloomy ceilings that you were reluctant to look at for fear you should see bats hanging there . |
| 25 | ‘ For , ’ said the Robemaker , softly and slyly , ‘ if the Geimhreadh has the voracious appetites of all her race and seeks to suck dry every man who comes into her power , then I have the carnal appetites of Men . ’ |
| 26 | Then I glimpse the shifting colours of the television and its faint reflection on two small inert alien faces . |
| 27 | Then I opened the back door and out they went . |
| 28 | Then I adjusted the red screen behind me and went into Small Ward Two . |
| 29 | Then I tried the new needle supplied with the machine when I bought it many years ago . |
| 30 | Erm , amateur societies just ca n't exist without loyal officers and those officers have shown their loyalty by s standing again and we know the special circumstances appertaining to the , which brings us to the nitty- gritty now erm you said we have , Tracy , five erm perhaps you 'd better read those names out for us and then I think the best thing to do is to have a closed vote , where we give you all a piece of paper on which you state your nomination folded up so nobody else can see we 'll put them in a bag and then we 'll appoint a couple of to count the vote so that we do not the chairman . |