Example sentences of "then [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then led them back to the safety of the Allied trenches . |
| 2 | Sister Cecilia held out a hand towards her , saying , ‘ Come child , come , ’ then led her out of the room , through the corridor , upstairs , and into her cubicle . |
| 3 | Through that we obtained a middle generation , who then passed us on to the older generation of the family . |
| 4 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 5 | He reached into the drawer beneath the table and drew out the transparent template , then laid it down over the shaded area . |
| 6 | They then bundled him out of the car and left him on the road . |
| 7 | Members of the Jafaar clan and other DEA couriers would arrive at Larnaca with suitcases full of high-grade heroin , white and crystal , and be met off the boat from the Christian-controlled port of Jounieh by officers of the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad , who then drove them up to the Eurame office in Nicosia . |
| 8 | He then threw them on to the ground in the tinder-dry hay loft without putting them out properly , it is alleged . |
| 9 | He flicked through them , then threw them down on the table . |
| 10 | The gang assaulted him during the drive to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire , then threw him out of the car . |
| 11 | He then ordered her back to the living room where he tried to rape her twice without success . |
| 12 | She then hung it out in the outhouse for storage . |
| 13 | Doyle checked his forty-five magnum , then slotted it back into the holster on his back belt . |
| 14 | Ellwood spun him a dozen more times , then released him on to the sofa . |
| 15 | I threw some of the water from the bowl over my own face and drank the rest for I was thirsty , then followed him down to the Great Hall . |
| 16 | He put the finger into his mouth , sucked at it and then waved it around in the air . |
| 17 | He turned on the tap and washed them , then brought them back into the room and dried them with the tea-cloth . |
| 18 | I helped to milk the cows and then took them out to the field . |
| 19 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 20 | It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 . |
| 21 | The theory is that the type of population mixing which took place on oil installations spread that agent among oil workers who then took it back to the areas in which they lived . |
| 22 | I picked a fish-louse from it as it lay on the unhooking mat , dabbed a bit of waterproof ointment on a small wound on its flank , then slipped it back into the water . |
| 23 | But , leaving her for a brief while , he went to instruct Ivo to drive her back to her hotel , and then escorted her out through the front door . |
| 24 | Shelley put ten long fingers to his chest and then flipped them up at the ceiling . |
| 25 | I told her this , and then wrote it down on the assessment sheet . |
| 26 | It was already half full with stagnant rain water , so Mildred filled it to the brim , then carried it back to the yard window-sill , collecting her broomstick on the way . |
| 27 | He knocked my gun from my hand then pushed me up against the wall , pressing his own gun into my stomach . |
| 28 | She gave it a brief glance , then pushed it back across the desk . |
| 29 | Molly carried her a little way towards the house and then set her down on the pavement by the front door . |
| 30 | Wondering who had wrote it , Katherine turned the letter over in her hands , and then held it up to the light , looking for a watermark — anything which would indicate its origin . |