Example sentences of "then she [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | So then she cut through the dining room and into the lounge , where she found him sitting in front of the big Sony TV . |
2 | Then she crept into the kitchen , stole an envelope and a stamp from the kitchen drawer , and ran to the corner to mail her letter before she could change her mind . |
3 | Mother answered , then she came into the sitting-room and announced , ‘ Clare 's coming home . ’ |
4 | She nodded dismissively at Joe , who glared and stamped back to the pigs , and then she came into the milking house and leaned against the far wall , looking across at Jinny . |
5 | I said ju , I said to him then she came on the phone I was o ages on the phone and she said er I said you just take it as if it 's a day off and |
6 | Then she came to the conclusion that it might make things easier . |
7 | Then she went into the cottage and closed the door and I came out of hiding . |
8 | After she arrived home , she went to the bathroom for a quick wash and then she went to the kitchen to make a sandwich for the next morning at the factory . |
9 | Then she went to the sink and filled it with lukewarm water and made the water frothy with soap-powder . |
10 | Then she went to the prison to see Sarah . |
11 | And then she glanced at the window ; the darkness outside was complete . |
12 | Then she continued in the sort of I'll-be-reasonable-if-you'll-be-reasonable tones adopted by the Russian government to , say , the Lithuanians . |
13 | Then she ran from the cloakroom , down the narrow dark passage and out into the night . |
14 | Then she passed into the square , tessellated hall with its stone fireplace , the hall which , on winter nights , seemed to echo faintly with the childish voices of Victorian rectors ' children and which , for Meg , had always held a faintly ecclesiastical smell . |
15 | Then she stared at the picture for a full minute . |
16 | Alexandra thought of calling her back , explaining that Mrs Chamberlin might regret her kind invitation to dine with them on Christmas Day if Alexandra were to upstage the Rectory family in such a way , but then she reflected on the goodness of Mrs Chamberlin 's heart and the necessity of living up to at least some of Lyddy 's expectations of her . |
17 | Then she flopped on the sofa to sort through the letters . |
18 | Then she got into the bed and waited for him . |
19 | ‘ I could have done without this , ’ she said , and then she got into the truck . |
20 | But then she seemed in the end she she picked it up . |
21 | Then she thought of the Brownie Promise and the Brownie Law and the Brownie Motto , all of which she knew by heart and had often said aloud when riding along the country lanes , so that she would be able to say them if the wonderful day should come for her to join a Brownie Pack . |
22 | Then she thought of the picture Graham always carried in his wallet of Carrie and Mikey . |
23 | Then she thought of the blackberrying and the melon , of the feathered hens that laid eggs , and of the church eagle of glinting metal that glowed like gold . |
24 | Then she looked beyond the board , and her heart almost stopped beating . |
25 | But then she dropped into the makeup chair , all of the steam going out of her . |
26 | And then she walked to the cavalcade which would whisk her to her flight back to London . |
27 | Then she walked to the door , and tried to open it , just in case the sound of the key had been a figment of her over-active imagination . |
28 | Then she walked into the hotel . |
29 | Then she walked into the living-room and sat down in an armchair . |
30 | Claudia also watched him go ; then she walked into the flat , wishing she were on her own . |