Example sentences of "then he [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Then he left for the warmth of his blankets .
2 Then he fell in the mud … )
3 Then he tottered to the home , polybag empty of crusts .
4 Then he paused for a moment .
5 Then he looked at the Earl .
6 and then he looked at the man .
7 Then he looked at the Curator , straight into his eyes to make him understand that the person he was thinking of was himself .
8 and then he looked at the row of trolleys tangled in the front of the car .
9 Then he looked at the jury , and said very loudly : ‘ Sarah did not buy the toothpaste .
10 Then he looked at the linen she was holding across her arms , and she followed his gaze and said , as she motioned her hand towards the door , ‘ This … this is our house too .
11 parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything
12 Then he looked along the rope .
13 Then he looked under the table , ‘ Oh no — it was the table leg .
14 Then he looked in a railway timetable for a town that he did not know .
15 Then he looked in the pram and saw Steffine and put the knife on her face .
16 Then he looked in the car , saw my father crumpled up and started to speak .
17 then he looked in the baby 's bouncy chair .
18 Then he looked after the income tax , which was a bit of a headache .
19 Brookhead Smith loaded the cabinet with the gramophone inside it on to the back of his cart , then he looked around the shed to see if there were any more records lying about .
20 Then he looked round the room .
21 Then he landed in a bunker , shot over the green and putted twice .
22 Then he spat in the road , and delivered himself of a surly condemnation .
23 Then he heaved in a breath that must have gone right down to his toes , and his whole body arched and stiffened , and then relaxed on as prolonged an exhalation .
24 Then he made for the stairs , taking them two at a time .
25 Then he felt for the pain in his neck .
26 Then he vaulted over the breakwater , ran up the steps on to the prom and was lost to view .
27 Then he rolled off the seat into the footwell and immediately started snoring again .
28 For a few moments , to give Hookum Singh time to get to the hall and ring the bell for the last time , the Collector held the toppling pile of bodies by himself , then he sped across the drawing-room after the Sikhs , his boots crunching broken glass from the cases of stuffed animals ; the Sikhs had bare feet , however , and did not crunch it so loudly .
29 Then he seized on the idea of demonstrating his cross-bow .
30 He keeps calling in till he 's acknowledged , then he asks for a road report .
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