Example sentences of "then [verb] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was she having a sly laugh at his expense , talking nonsense and then cornering him with a sudden question ? |
| 2 | All the forceful tact Aunt Tossie possessed was needed to convince Dada that only champagne , the best champagne , would be appropriate to the occasion , and then to compel him into the stony depths of the cellars to root with Twomey along the half-empty bins where forgotten treasures spoiled . |
| 3 | He remembered how Izzy Kleiber had fought and kicked right to the end — until the moment when they lifted him up , then lowered him over the outer wall of the harbour , where the greedy river licked its oily lips and waited , invisible in the darkness below … . |
| 4 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 5 | Nutty shouted imperiously at the pony , and then encouraged him in a sing-song voice , ‘ Trot on , trot on , one two , one two . ’ |
| 6 | She resisted for no more than a second , then joined him in the secret dark underneath . |
| 7 | The next moment he was inside and she was closing the door behind him , then leading him along the narrow hallway towards the living-room . |
| 8 | Dave was led away by police who arrested then released him without a formal charge . |
| 9 | Dryden led from start to finish opening with a 75 and then roaring him with a 71 to win by six shots from Blyth 's Gary Wilson . |