Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Then I went on in Arabic : ‘ You 'll be sorry .
2 No , we went to Jolly Farmer , dropped my mother in the Jolly Farmer and then I went up to Holly Cottage to collect Tim , then we went up to collect Ti Christopher
3 Then I went back to work .
4 Then I went back to work .
5 I did stop smoking for three months and then with everyone else around us , I mean I was putting on weight and then I went back to smoking .
6 I was at Low Newton a couple of weeks and then I got out on bail and went to see Stephen , but then I got lifted again , back to Low Newton .
7 And then I leapt out of bed and went to the window .
8 And er eventually he came er an engine which er there were some which started on petrol and then you turned on to paraffin but most of the work , just going on petrol , with a plug and a magneto .
9 Then she went back to bed . ’
10 Then she got back into bed , balanced the pad on her knees and began to write :
11 Then she poured out in detail the humiliation she had recently suffered , and at last she sighed deeply and said , ‘ You 've caught me at my weakest , but I 'm gradually pulling myself together . ’
12 Then she plodded out of sight in his wake .
13 Then she sat down beside Tug , put her elbows on the table and rested her chin in the palms of her hands .
14 Then she sank out of sight and was never seen again .
15 Then she turned back to Dane , effectively ending the audience , and for the rest of the trip her conversation was reserved for the driver alone .
16 And he bou he bought me this top and he bought me a , a polo neck and bought me a C D and then we went out to supper and then we went to a pub and everything and erm , you know , had a really decent conversation with him and just talking to him makes me think , you know , and it dawns on me that he 's just a big he 's just a big child and he 's not , he 's never grown , he 's not , you 're not gon na grow up .
17 erm They have had periods when they were prosecuted , then they dropped out of fashion , now they have recently been revived over the last twenty years by prosecutors .
18 Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered .
19 Yes , steam then they got over to diesel .
20 ‘ The military invaded and cleared 280 hectares for shrimp tanks , then they ran out of money and abandoned the land , ’ reported independent shrimp producer Gustavo Acosta Rodriguez of San Bernardo .
21 Then they snapped back to attention and Doyle shook his head .
22 Genuine puzzlement crossed Mandy 's features and then they lit up with self-appreciation .
23 I , I did do years gone by yes and they , they did move into the football combination at one time , because it was considered that the Midland Intermediate League was too big a jump for young men into the first team and the difference was so vast in the type of football that Walsall second team they u only playing young fellas , and they used to win seven and eight goal margins every week you know , but then they moved up into combination that was a better standard of football , but latter years economy drives and everything they came back out of the combination reverted to the Midland Intermediate again which I believe there are two phases of that no one for s older players and the other one strictly for youth players
24 Then they danced on till morning , I can mind that .
25 ‘ Thirty years ago , the dragsmen would regularly steal baggage from the roof of a four-wheeler ; then it went out of fashion .
26 Then it fell out of sight , over Ashdale Great Edge .
27 The early evening had been fine and then it darkened over with thundercloud and got warmer .
28 And then it moved over to sort of VAXes as well .
29 Then he slithered out of sight into the dust .
30 Then he went back to contemplation of one of his local scenes , his broad shoulders hunched in the vivid purple shirt , his head pressed forward .
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