Example sentences of "and then [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to close the windows and stepped inside the room , planning to lock them and then let himself out by Sara 's front door . |
| 2 | Jenna looked across towards the barn and then flung herself back beside him to lie watching the clouds scudding across the blue sky . |
| 3 | Here Cornelius fed the motor car with the best petrol that money could buy and then took himself up to the restaurant to join Tuppe . |
| 4 | Lydia put a mug of tea in front of her master and then took herself off to the dairy , where she and Martha unashamedly listened at the door . |
| 5 | Station Officer Alan Bridle , from Canning Place 's Green Watch , said : ‘ When we arrived I got up on to the roof and then lowered myself down into the centre . |
| 6 | I got out of bed gah ! — and then picked myself up off the floor . |
| 7 | He did a double stint of exercise until he was clammy with globules of sweat and then sluiced himself over from the two cold jugs of water Christine had brought him up after breakfast . |
| 8 | ‘ If there was anything that caught his ear , he would tell everyone to be quiet and listen , and then fling himself about to the music . |