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Example sentences of "then he [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Then he made the small finger-gesture , as among professionals , for ‘ switching clients ’ .
2	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 .
3	Surely then he becomes the free man , the wandering spirit , the enjoyer of the limitless life ?
4	Then he told the astonished controller to call the police and an ambulance — and volunteered to sit with Derek until they arrived .
5	Then he saw the broken string of a relic-bag and realised it was Mael-Isu of Deer .
6	It was then he saw the approaching gendarme .
7	For a second Sharpe 's heart leapt , thinking that a battalion of Riflemen had arrived , then he saw the yellow crossbelts over the green coats and he knew he was seeing Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar 's force of Nassauers .
8	Then he saw the glowing tip of someone 's cigarette behind the windshield .
9	Given his background , he built up a very effective little unit , then he offered the whole thing to us after the Flying Doctor business .
10	And then he heard the automatic alarms .
11	Then he attacked the new belief in collectivism as a political , not an ecclesiastical cry : socialism would produce a ‘ kingdom of Lilliputians , not men ’ .
12	‘ Then he carried the little girl to the nearest building and rushed inside a flat to shower her with cold water .
13	Then he said the old bat needs .
14	‘ And then he had the infernal nerve to write and ask if she was managing all right , ’ he continued bitingly .
15	Then he had the good fortune to meet Commander D. W. Child RN who had been an intelligence officer in Holland and who Blake had met there .
16	And then he had the blasted cheek to offer him a coffee , emphasizing his familiarity with the flat , his rights of ownership .
17	Then he took the proffered penny and went inside the pub , leaving me to get on with it .
18	Then he took the right fork of the track , following it for a hundred yards , and blocked it so that clearing the barricade in a hurry would require a bulldozer .
19	Then he terrorised the hysterical wives into mutilating their private parts with needles and pins , a court heard yesterday .
20	Then he knew the complete arrogance of the TOP's. had never occurred to them that anyone would attempt to infiltrate the control room .
21	Then he noticed the dark eyes , smouldering with hate at him from beneath tangled strands of black hair .
22	He examined it closer , and it was only then he noticed the faint crack which ran between the edges of the tiles .
23	Initially , he could n't see the body , and then he noticed the tell-tale blanket draped over a shape on the floor .
24	Then he got the public sector borrowing requirement wrong .
25	Then he released the headless cockerel .
26	Then he moved the black rook so that it sat solidly behind the white bishop , attacking it in response despite the presence of the white queen three squares behind the bishop .
27	Then he closed the white file in front of him with a snap .
28	Dezi 's visit to the showground continued with a canter around the main ring … and then he joined the grand parade .
29	Then he found the white posts marking each one , and could read some of the names .
30	It was less crowded at the rear of the room and he thought of pausing there , where he could watch la Principessa and still draw a breath of air that was not perfumed half to death , but then he patted the slender cigar in the breast pocket of the dinner-jacket that had been hand-tailored to fit his sinew-hardened body and decided that only a whiff of tobacco would fully cleanse his nostrils of the mix of scents that hung in the over-heated room .