Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well , I have practised yoga for many years , but then I met a Jesuit priest who had been sent to the Far East by the Catholic Church to experience the Buddhist way and see how it might relate to Catholic worship .
2 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 .
3 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 …
4 Then I left the surveying surveyor civil engineering I went in the black gang .
5 I put my photos up and then I had a little rest .
6 ‘ Once next door and then I had a second breakfast with Dad .
7 So , in the example you 're referring to , I had like a title and then I had a sub-title and further details and another sub- title and further details , and then I had a total line
8 Then I had a blooming fall .
9 Then I had a bright idea — why not go home to see if any more rubbish was available .
10 Then I ascended the narrow stairs to his doorway .
11 Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head .
12 then I felt a real twit , cos a man came up and I said I think something 's gone wrong with the auto bank machine , says I , it wo n't give me any money because it 's , it 's coming up there 's an error , so he said well I 'll try and see , he says , he put in exactly the same card as me , he had the Midland card , put it in , got his money
13 Then I administered a little ouzo and we began to talk about Ivy .
14 Then I unlocked the main door .
15 Then I heard a new sound : a thin wail more certain than the birds , coming from inside the house , balancing between the shuffling draughts .
16 Then I heard the front door close and the sound of his car going down the road .
17 Then I made a fist-sized roll of the rest and shoved it into my deepest pocket .
18 Then I took a deep breath .
19 Then I took a deep breath .
20 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 .
21 Then I commenced a tremulous search through its pages , almost as if I expected to find details of a timeslip between Geneva and where I now was .
22 It was then I noticed a small cut on his forearm , at least it looked small until it opened up and I realised it went all the way through all the underlying muscles .
23 Then I retrieved a 251 metal container , with a good-fitting lid , from a skip .
24 Then I saw a second light beside the first .
25 He added : ‘ As we approached the town we swerved to avoid a mine in the road , then I saw a second mine three feet in front of us .
26 I did quite a lot on that single bed machine , even intarsia and then I saw a double bed advertised for £15 .
27 Then I saw a light aircraft orbiting overhead and started waving to it , but he disappeared and I did n't know if he 'd seen me .
28 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 .
29 Then I saw the small monster too .
30 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 .
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