Example sentences of "then [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the placement , a ward sister signed my assessment form and then asked me to do the same . |
| 2 | He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it . ’ |
| 3 | People very kindly took her under their wing , explained the rules , explained the dangers of unexpected holes , and then encouraged her to spend the next few hours crawling into and under wet gorse bushes . |
| 4 | I listened closely to what he had to say , but I then pressed him to name the best-known avant-garde artists for me . |
| 5 | The girl , consulting her Winnie the Pooh diary , said Mahfouz then sent her to learn the Mental Health Act . |
| 6 | Only then did they see the great livid gashes that no man could have inflicted raked along both Ranks . |
| 7 | Only then did he see the thin figure of Louis leaning against the saloon bulkhead . |