Example sentences of "then [vb past] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I just do n't know why you turn me on at all , " Slater said , then peered closely at the other young man 's face and said pointedly , " Are you listening to me , Park ? " |
| 2 | Whitlock noticed the holster affixed to the guard 's belt , then glanced down at the leashed Doberman sitting obediently beside him . |
| 3 | Lin Foh hesitated , frowned , then glanced back at the two young Foreign Office men ; they were hardly protection for the Colonel ; rather , were deliberately overt presences with him , keeping an eye on him on the instruction of the Foreign Secretary . |
| 4 | She needed every scrap of self-confidence she could rustle up , she thought , then grinned crookedly at the wary light in her eyes reflected by the glass . |
| 5 | His eyes met Rosten 's , bright with gratitude , then looked down at the short sword . |
| 6 | A resigned silence congealed over the rows of people and the Reverend Archibald Menzies gripped the edges of the lectern , closed his eyes and raised his face to the ceiling , then looked down at the serried faces and spoke . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , Dr Markham , I was , ’ she nodded then looked back at the other man . |
| 8 | Robyn listened , stared , digesting all that he had said and then looked back at the magnificent sixty-foot holly tree . |
| 9 | He then stared up at the blue sky . |
| 10 | Artemis curtsied again , and then stared up at the beautiful and elegant woman . |
| 11 | Jane fidgeted with the signal pads on her desk , plucked a thread from the sleeve of her jacket then stared blankly at the chewed end of her Admiralty-issue pencil . |
| 12 | They stopped far beer and then waited anxiously at an agreed spot for Minto and the others . |
| 13 | She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper . |
| 14 | He studied him a moment , intently , almost fiercely , then pointed up at the overhead camera . |