Example sentences of "then he [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he left for the warmth of his blankets . |
| 2 | Then he fell in the mud … ) |
| 3 | Then he tottered to the home , polybag empty of crusts . |
| 4 | Then he looked at the Earl . |
| 5 | and then he looked at the man . |
| 6 | Then he looked at the Curator , straight into his eyes to make him understand that the person he was thinking of was himself . |
| 7 | and then he looked at the row of trolleys tangled in the front of the car . |
| 8 | Then he looked at the jury , and said very loudly : ‘ Sarah did not buy the toothpaste . |
| 9 | Then he looked at the linen she was holding across her arms , and she followed his gaze and said , as she motioned her hand towards the door , ‘ This … this is our house too . |
| 10 | parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything |
| 11 | Then he looked along the rope . |
| 12 | Then he looked under the table , ‘ Oh no — it was the table leg . |
| 13 | Then he looked in the pram and saw Steffine and put the knife on her face . |
| 14 | Then he looked in the car , saw my father crumpled up and started to speak . |
| 15 | then he looked in the baby 's bouncy chair . |
| 16 | Then he looked after the income tax , which was a bit of a headache . |
| 17 | Brookhead Smith loaded the cabinet with the gramophone inside it on to the back of his cart , then he looked around the shed to see if there were any more records lying about . |
| 18 | Then he looked round the room . |
| 19 | Then he spat in the road , and delivered himself of a surly condemnation . |
| 20 | Then he made for the stairs , taking them two at a time . |
| 21 | Then he felt for the pain in his neck . |
| 22 | Then he vaulted over the breakwater , ran up the steps on to the prom and was lost to view . |
| 23 | Then he rolled off the seat into the footwell and immediately started snoring again . |
| 24 | For a few moments , to give Hookum Singh time to get to the hall and ring the bell for the last time , the Collector held the toppling pile of bodies by himself , then he sped across the drawing-room after the Sikhs , his boots crunching broken glass from the cases of stuffed animals ; the Sikhs had bare feet , however , and did not crunch it so loudly . |
| 25 | Then he seized on the idea of demonstrating his cross-bow . |
| 26 | Then he strolled to the end of the byre and returned with a forkful of hay which he tossed expertly into the rack . |
| 27 | Then he ran through the maze of feet . |
| 28 | Then he ran across the road , dodging between the traffic . |
| 29 | Then he disappeared up the side of the house . |
| 30 | He looked round to make sure that nobody was following him , and then he disappeared over the hill . |