Example sentences of "then [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ways more amenable to women 's visual pleasure , off-beat films which then made it into the mainstream distribution circuit such as Lianna ( Nelson/Renzi ) , Desert Hearts , I 've Heard the Mermaids Singing ( Rozema ) and Percy Adlon 's work with Marianne Sagebrecht in Baghdad Café and Sugar Baby have achieved a degree of success in changing the dynamics of female objectification and sexual fantasy in an entertainment setting . |
| 2 | 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 … . |
| 3 | In other words , they created a self-image and then sold it to the greater powers of western Europe ; and whatever their reaction , be it incredulous , admiring or contemptuous , these powers now found it impossible to ignore the Scots ' insistent demands that they should be noticed . |
| 4 | I then sold it to the genuine buyer , paid you back … ’ |
| 5 | She-She then parked me in the aromatic cubicle . |
| 6 | She gave her name and address , and P.C. Clifford then drove her to the big office block in Upper Thames Street , just round the corner . |
| 7 | he bound her hands and raped her … he then drove her to the nearby village of Olney … where she was raped again … |
| 8 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 9 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 10 | Making a hole in the top of a roll they poured in whiskey until it was well soaked , then threw it to the screaming gulls , who swooped upon it in their dozens . |
| 11 | She resisted for no more than a second , then joined him in the secret dark underneath . |
| 12 | He pulled the horse round to face eastwards , then spurred it into the tall field of rye . |
| 13 | They went into the bathroom together ; he adjusted the taps and then pulled her under the steaming water with him . |
| 14 | Huffily Leonora filled the kettle , made coffee , then took hers into the other room . |
| 15 | And she says her day with Becky and the team was a revelation : ‘ The Granada Reports people came to my house to film me in some of my own clothes and then took me to the Hillcrest Hotel in Widnes where I had my hair styled and my make-up done , and then tried on lots of different outfits . |
| 16 | On Junction Buttress , Malc Taylor put All my Pegs in one Basket and then left them in the obvious overhanging crack , which is now E7 6c . |
| 17 | I rolled the two pellets of wax between the forefingers and thumbs of each hand and then replaced them in the opposite ears , the whole time humming and appreciating the bitable texture of the linoleum beneath my soles . |
| 18 | Feargal bought her ticket , made sure she understood the map of which part of the mountain was hers to search , and then pointed her in the right direction . |