Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known .
2 I put my old gun in my pocket , then I put everything in a box for my midnight visitor to collect .
3 I took it out of the bed and stared at it , then I put it on the table beside my bed and put out the lights .
4 I put the small boat on my shoulders and carried it to the edge of the water , then I put it in the sea .
5 Then I rode it in a in an old Burberry and I do n't how I started it , I think it was kick start .
6 Then I sold it for a Telecaster , which I hated , because the Tele did n't have any knobs ; it was a real simple guitar and I did n't like it , so I bought a Les Paul and I loved it .
7 There have been a few moments during the making of Aspel and Company which have aged me considerably — but then I comfort myself with the thought that life would be very dull without any crises to get the heart racing .
8 Then I saw something on the ice in front of me .
9 And then I got myself in a knot cos there was a car coming up the road
10 I do n't know but then frankly thinking but then I got them in the end you know I just did n't sell them because nobody paid that much and then ah in the outset and I paid quite a big price for for two for Patrick and me and then when they were they they dropped the price and then I got some more .
11 Then I drive it at a brick wall .
12 ‘ So I just went a-front there with my milk and vinegar ; rubbed it in my palm and fingers ; and then I rubbed it inside the horses ’ nose and then round their nostrils .
13 I 've got it back two or three times and then I failed it in the end .
14 If there are criticisms then I accept them with the same magnanimity which Martin claims I do not possess .
15 Then I helped myself to a cigarette .
16 I met him at Aunt Alicia 's because he rented half the house , and then I helped him with the horses .
17 Then I tried it on the pasture , but that was a bit rough , so I thought I would ride it down the new road through the iron gate leading out of my land .
18 Then I found her outside the kitchen door , crying , she 'd lost her shoes what with one thing and another and she was too ashamed to come back into the house .
19 She indicated the pretty flower-patterned basin for me to wash my hands in , then I joined them at the table .
20 And then I lost him among the boulders and small trees that marked the course of the torrent .
21 ‘ I started a similar scheme in Wellington , but then I did it at the same hour on the same day every week .
22 ‘ It was probably hit on the road and then somebody threw it into the lake , ’ Ross Aldridge , the young constable , told her .
23 Clean it up and then you take him in the .
24 You go to the pantry , get on your hands then you take it into the dining room
25 ’ I just get guys saying , ’ Hey man , I love that film where you bit that guys neck and then you shot him in the head and his brains went spilling all over your face .
26 And then you dragged him to the altar , or was it the registrar ? — I 've never had an account of the joyful occasion — and then you came back up here , and-you thought you 'd be Queen of Oswaldston , with your little private income , and your nice stone house , and your upper-class ways . ’
27 but then you left him for an American carpenter .
28 Yeah , cos like if you 've got three Ss or something then you put one at the bottom of the pack and keep the card if you 've got an
29 Then you put it on the window sill for people to admire so heaven knows how many went that way . ’
30 Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle .
  Next page