Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I slowed down but even then I locked up the front wheel in one of the fast corners and I fell again . |
| 2 | Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure . |
| 3 | Then I lay over a great slab of rock which warmed the water almost to bath-heat . |
| 4 | Thus at my ease , I ate my tea and then I washed up the dirty crocks . |
| 5 | Then you take out the little plastic box from your jacket and show him the syringe needle . |
| 6 | Then she tossed off a scornful laugh as she demanded haughtily , ‘ Why on earth should I be jealous of Doreen ? ’ |
| 7 | Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind . |
| 8 | She had to blink back her tears before she opened the front door , and then she ran down the short tiled path , and , throwing back her shoulders and digging her hands into her pockets , strode down to the parade . |
| 9 | Then she took up the discarded tray and looked back at him where he stood now , leaning against the wall between the French windows , his silver flask of brandy open as he sipped defiantly , watching her with a black scowl on his face . |
| 10 | Jessica grabbed his bursting penis and almost pulled it into her , then threw her legs around him and her arms and crushed him until he gasped , still coming , and then she let out a mighty hoot , a hoot to wake hotel guests two corridors away , she had come as well , once , hard , like a violent convulsion . |
| 11 | Then she put on a white crash helmet , climbed into her kart and roared off at the Playscape circuit in Clapham , South London . |
| 12 | Then she picked up the tall glass she had carried down with her , and which was now empty , walked sedately to the water 's edge , filled it with ice-cold water and returned to see that he had not shifted . |
| 13 | Then she picked up the dirty washing and went to the door . |
| 14 | Then she switches on a dumb schoolgirl smile that would n't fool a grandma and she says , ‘ Hey , you dealing , man ? |
| 15 | So I , I erm , I had a lovely walk through there , and then we went out the other side of it , and it 's Highgate Cemetery . |
| 16 | And then we walked on a little bit further and there was big clumps of them everywhere they was . |
| 17 | And then they put up a big tent in the Beside the school where you went out for your supper er it was that . |
| 18 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 19 | Then they plodded round a circular mill , crushing the cider apples . |
| 20 | Then he ran down the wooden stair , through the house , out to the lower lawn . |
| 21 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 22 | He was silent for a long time , then he blew out a long stream of smoke and turned his head towards her . |
| 23 | Then he took out a black leather hip holster and from that , a metallic dull revolver with a barrel about three inches long . |
| 24 | Then he searched out the little hard protruding button that was the energy of her sex , he stabbed at it with his tongue , felt her respond quickly , then urgently . |
| 25 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
| 26 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 27 | Then he turned back the top sheet and blankets . |
| 28 | Then he picked up a long poker from the fireplace and had it like a rifle when he played the tape again . |
| 29 | Then he picked up the internal phone and pressed a button . |