Example sentences of "then he [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drank my drink because I said something about all the money he was always flashing around and then he made a dirty crack about … |
| 2 | And then he made a troubled face . |
| 3 | Then he made a big concession . |
| 4 | Then he made the small finger-gesture , as among professionals , for ‘ switching clients ’ . |
| 5 | It is only late in the day that the weary French King ( Paul Scofield ) gears up his own hostile rhetoric , and then he entrusts the actual campaign to various representatives , the Dauphin , the Constable , Orleans , who cry up only their armour and their horses , and are rhetorically out-ranked even before the battle begins . |
| 6 | Surely then he becomes the free man , the wandering spirit , the enjoyer of the limitless life ? |
| 7 | First he went to St Andrew 's in Scotland , then to Rome ; then he engaged in regular trading between England and Scotland for a while ; then he became a professional sailor . |
| 8 | Then he felt a new movement . |
| 9 | Then he felt a tiny prick in his arm , and the pain , the faces , the roaring , all began to recede , and he floated away into a warm , restful darkness . |
| 10 | Then he scratched a shallow nest in the earth and slept . |
| 11 | Then he told the astonished controller to call the police and an ambulance — and volunteered to sit with Derek until they arrived . |
| 12 | His first impression was that somebody had started to construct a small harbour , but then he saw a shallow groove cut in the face of the cliff which must at one time have accommodated a pipe , and it occurred to him that it had probably been a sewage outfall . |
| 13 | Just then he saw a small boat moving out to sea , towards a ship . |
| 14 | Just then he saw a familiar shape pass the window on its way to the rear door , heard the tap-tapping of high-heeled shoes on the flags outside . |
| 15 | And then he saw a folded umbrella , pointed into the air , moving into the centre of the chaos . |
| 16 | And then he saw the same look of horror on Jimmy 's face as he pulled him roughly back . |
| 17 | Then he saw the broken string of a relic-bag and realised it was Mael-Isu of Deer . |
| 18 | It was then he saw the approaching gendarme . |
| 19 | Then he saw the glowing tip of someone 's cigarette behind the windshield . |
| 20 | Given his background , he built up a very effective little unit , then he offered the whole thing to us after the Flying Doctor business . |
| 21 | Then he ordered the second charge . |
| 22 | Then he transferred the same hand to the back pocket of his trousers and did some not very good patting of both flanks . |
| 23 | Then he heard a long cry … |
| 24 | Then he ran a short foil along part of his original track and broke abruptly northward , almost dead straight . |
| 25 | Then he attacked the new belief in collectivism as a political , not an ecclesiastical cry : socialism would produce a ‘ kingdom of Lilliputians , not men ’ . |
| 26 | For a moment his look was piercing , and then he produced a rare smile . |
| 27 | He seemed about to leave — walked to the door , in any case — but when he reached the foot of the bed , he took hold of the brass upright and pulled the bed out into the room ; then he carried a second ladderback chair to the head of the bed and sat down behind Annie . |
| 28 | ‘ Then he carried the little girl to the nearest building and rushed inside a flat to shower her with cold water . |
| 29 | Then he said the old bat needs . |
| 30 | Des was chatting with Macca on football focus in the morning , and then he said the same thing . |