Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I had to go into the Royal Marsden . |
| 2 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 3 | I had to run to the end of the course with a hoop on my head then put the ring on a pole , then on the way back I had to arrange the bean bags in the right colour hoops , then get in an old potato bag and jump to the middle of the course then I had to skip to the end . |
| 4 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
| 5 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 6 | Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book . |
| 7 | Then I began to walk along the old coach road . |
| 8 | But I suppose by then I 'd got into the habit of never mentioning her . ’ |
| 9 | Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical . |
| 10 | He stopped , and there was a pause , and then someone started to clap at the back of the studio , and George , who had been sitting with his chin on his chest , impassively listening , looked up . |
| 11 | Crude murals on a hoarding illustrated the legend of the hero Cuchulain , who killed a fearsome hound and then himself became known as the Hound of Ulster . |
| 12 | And you did that and then you had to wait until the the machine came round again and that was you again , you 'd a whole day at that . |
| 13 | Amanda had started massaging his shoulders ; he 'd closed his eyes and imagined a hot sun and someone rubbing oil on his back , and then she 'd slipped off the bed and had gone to have a bath with the other complimentary packet of foam . |
| 14 | Then she had gone into the garden and played cricket with Oliver , running up and down and laughing very loudly so that they should hear her next door and know she was n't tired at all . |
| 15 | He went yet again in 1801 , by then she had altered from the time when she had ‘ full eyes , vermillion lips , and cheeks like lillies ’ to a ‘ bulky wife of a farmer , blessed with much good humour and a ready utterance . ’ |
| 16 | And then — and the memory was fleeting , but it had grown over the years — then she had reached to the boy … |
| 17 | Then she had descended through the familiar outer layers of Dreamspace , and faded in on the bus . |
| 18 | Then she had to run across the stage on her own . |
| 19 | Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do |
| 20 | She thought of all the things she did n't like to do , the sewing and painting and practising , and then she tried to think of the days at home she had enjoyed most and unbidden , pictures came to her mind of the farm and the sheep and the days on the hill with her father . |
| 21 | It took her a minute to unlock the car and then she sat shaking behind the wheel , waiting until her hands were steady enough to switch on the ignition . |
| 22 | Then she started laughing at the top of her voice . |
| 23 | Then she started to run across the moor towards her home . |
| 24 | Then she turned to look at the Frenchman and spoke softly in his language . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't think much of it at first , but then something started to waft around the corridors , ’ shudders Bea . |
| 26 | Then we had to go to the banks and change our covenants , which were based on TI 's net tangible assets , which in turn were damaged by the write-off . |
| 27 | Erm then we had to call on the way back in Deeside er in Mold and there was a miner 's support group there . |
| 28 | Then we tried to cut across the fields at the bottom and that was a mistake , they were all ploughed up . |
| 29 | And then we started to get to the big stuff . |
| 30 | It was then we found out who oc , who was the occupant of that flat then we started to look at the connection between and . |