Example sentences of "then he [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he scooped up the bat , swept it back into the drawer , and composed himself at his chair . |
| 2 | Then he crossed out the sentence , savagely . |
| 3 | Some years later , in a draft version of " The Three Voices of Poetry " , he wrote that the last three quartets were patriotic poems ; then he crossed out the remark . |
| 4 | I phoned Debby to get Steven 's phone number to get him to leave out the microphone and the amplifier and then he brought up the microphone and did n't bring up the amplifier . |
| 5 | Then he ran up the rope of the alarm bell . |
| 6 | Then he had both the work and the company . |
| 7 | So how did the work out because as far as I know the the riveter got the cash and then he divvied up the money between |
| 8 | Then he screwed up the bag and threw it about two feet away . |
| 9 | Then he set off the expense of having a debtor arrested in this way , which failed to produce payment of the debt against the sums he recovered . |
| 10 | Then he pointed up the slope . |
| 11 | Then he switched on the torch and splashed through the puddle in the concrete to the shed . |
| 12 | Hugh drove neatly into the straw-covered shelter as though he were coming to rest in a multi-storey car park ; then he switched off the engine and opened his door . |
| 13 | Then he pulled down the sheet , which was all the bedclothes she had needed on that warm night , and she lay naked before him . |
| 14 | Then he pulled down the oven door , smelt the sweet , fatty smell of the meat and knew that it was probably this very fact that accounted for his decision to go through with the business . |
| 15 | and then he appeared up the top there . |
| 16 | Then he walks up the aisle in the centre of the classroom , shooting at the students lying beneath the desks . |
| 17 | Then he remembered how the Worm was said to feed off hatred . |
| 18 | Then he remembered how the policeman had hurried off after leaving him and Louise at the Astoria . |
| 19 | Get help , ’ and then he scrambled up the bank and raced like a wild thing , screaming now , ‘ Bernard ! |
| 20 | Then he put down the knife and took the sticky thing in his fingers and started very slowly to eat it . |
| 21 | Then he put down the phone and glanced once more at the fingerprints beneath the microscope . |
| 22 | ’ Then he put down the phone before the number could be traced . |
| 23 | He stood without moving for a few minutes and then he put out the light . |
| 24 | ‘ See that ? ’ he said , and then he held up The Hook . |
| 25 | He wiped his face , then he picked up the cheque again , and his wet thumb smudged my signature . |
| 26 | Then he picked up the washing-up . |
| 27 | Then he picked up the phone and called for additional officers . |
| 28 | But then he picked up the rubbish bag and slung it over his shoulder . |
| 29 | Then he picked up the receiver again . |
| 30 | Then he nailed up the shed door . |