Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | I put the small boat on my shoulders and carried it to the edge of the water , then I put it in the sea . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ 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 . |
5 | I 've got it back two or three times and then I failed it in the end . |
6 | If there are criticisms then I accept them with the same magnanimity which Martin claims I do not possess . |
7 | I met him at Aunt Alicia 's because he rented half the house , and then I helped him with the horses . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | She indicated the pretty flower-patterned basin for me to wash my hands in , then I joined them at the table . |
11 | And then I lost him among the boulders and small trees that marked the course of the torrent . |
12 | ‘ I started a similar scheme in Wellington , but then I did it at the same hour on the same day every week . |
13 | ‘ It was probably hit on the road and then somebody threw it into the lake , ’ Ross Aldridge , the young constable , told her . |
14 | Clean it up and then you take him in the . |
15 | You go to the pantry , get on your hands then you take it into the dining room |
16 | ’ 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 . |
17 | 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 . ’ |
18 | Then you put it on the window sill for people to admire so heaven knows how many went that way . ’ |
19 | We buy a nice little time manager thing , with little pink elephants in it , and goodness knows what , and we spend eight hundred pounds to get something to tell us how to time manage , and you really get enthusiastic about this for three months , and then you put it in the drawer and go back to your diary . |
20 | Oh you cook and then you break them off the rest of them |
21 | You just need the bike to turn a little bit and as soon as it 's spinning it turns just enough to where you can pick the bike up and then you nail it off the corner . ’ |
22 | I see , you criticize my appearance , and then you stab me in the back ! |
23 | Two there 's the one with Judith and I and then you join us for the last session . |
24 | And then you pour it into the bowls |
25 | and what it is the box is stood there and then you back the motor under it and then you drop it onto the body and it folds |
26 | and the hand does n't sneak out afterwards and starts popping out and then it 's useless , then the rest of all this stuff you just get it out of the way under the arm , it 's all gone , right , this bit comes up between the two shoulder blades , do n't make the mistake of bringing it across there , a lot of people do that , that wo n't do , you have to come round the back and between these two shoulder blades to get maximum support , you 've got to hold this elbow up and then you tie it near the hand , now I recommend that you tie it and talk to your casualty , half tie it and say is that supporting you enough ? |
27 | But then she scratched me between the ears and I started purring despite myself . |
28 | Then she took me to the centre by saying that she had asked my husband and had given permission . |
29 | Then she looked me in the eye and smiled . |
30 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |