Example sentences of "then [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In ways more amenable to women 's visual pleasure , off-beat films which then made it into the mainstream distribution circuit such as Lianna ( Nelson/Renzi ) , Desert Hearts , I 've Heard the Mermaids Singing ( Rozema ) and Percy Adlon 's work with Marianne Sagebrecht in Baghdad Café and Sugar Baby have achieved a degree of success in changing the dynamics of female objectification and sexual fantasy in an entertainment setting . |
2 | He scratched under his bag wig , knocking it askew , then straightened it in a fussy way , all the time fidgeting in his seat as if the bugs were biting there too . |
3 | He remembered how Izzy Kleiber had fought and kicked right to the end — until the moment when they lifted him up , then lowered him over the outer wall of the harbour , where the greedy river licked its oily lips and waited , invisible in the darkness below … . |
4 | I then sold it to the genuine buyer , paid you back … ’ |
5 | Its journalists then re-founded it as an independent paper [ see p. 38372 ] . |
6 | The combative veteran gave his side the lead on the hour , and then helped them to a flattering 3-0 win . |
7 | It stood about patiently until a crust dropped , then approached it with a sideways hopping motion and began to tear it . |
8 | He ran across the gangplank as enthusiastically as though he sought votes for his father 's election campaign , then approached us with an outstretched hand and a voice full of bright greetings . |
9 | Instead of this he left her to think of a solution and then rejected it as an inappropriate translation . |
10 | Dzo bells lulled us to sleep and then woke us to a clear and sunny morning . |
11 | She-She then parked me in the aromatic cubicle . |
12 | She gave her name and address , and P.C. Clifford then drove her to the big office block in Upper Thames Street , just round the corner . |
13 | he bound her hands and raped her … he then drove her to the nearby village of Olney … where she was raped again … |
14 | Eventually he released her with what appeared to be reluctance , which was strange , she thought , because she would have expected a man with his inhibitions about women to have just brushed her mouth briefly and then dropped her like a glowing ember . |
15 | In these conditions , the type of homosexuality that is mediated through pop music can only go just so far : in a perfect paradigm , Frankie Goes to Hollywood exploited the gay image of lead singers Paul Rutherford and Holly Johnson — for ‘ Relax ’ — and then dropped it like a hot potato as soon as another marketing device — this time , nuclear war became available for ‘ Two Tribes ’ . |
16 | Nutty shouted imperiously at the pony , and then encouraged him in a sing-song voice , ‘ Trot on , trot on , one two , one two . ’ |
17 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
18 | Making a hole in the top of a roll they poured in whiskey until it was well soaked , then threw it to the screaming gulls , who swooped upon it in their dozens . |
19 | Charles cut the hair up to the nape of the neck at the back , then graduated it into a flattering , face-framing bob . |
20 | I waited until the tea was ready then joined them for a warming meal of steak and kidney pudding , followed by a very hot mug of tea into which was placed a measure of Navy rum . |
21 | She resisted for no more than a second , then joined him in the secret dark underneath . |
22 | They sent her back to get another A-level , then welcomed her as a mature student at the ripe old age of 34 . |
23 | He then enclosed it in a transparent box which he provided with a mechanism for straining the specimen in bending . |
24 | He pulled the horse round to face eastwards , then spurred it into the tall field of rye . |
25 | Dave was led away by police who arrested then released him without a formal charge . |
26 | They went into the bathroom together ; he adjusted the taps and then pulled her under the steaming water with him . |
27 | Huffily Leonora filled the kettle , made coffee , then took hers into the other room . |
28 | On Junction Buttress , Malc Taylor put All my Pegs in one Basket and then left them in the obvious overhanging crack , which is now E7 6c . |
29 | That God created the world and then left it to a forsaken humanity , trying to address Him in an echoless void — this idea is n't new . |
30 | I rolled the two pellets of wax between the forefingers and thumbs of each hand and then replaced them in the opposite ears , the whole time humming and appreciating the bitable texture of the linoleum beneath my soles . |