Example sentences of "[pron] then [vb past] some " in BNC.

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1 I then tucked some heuchera flowers between the foliage .
2 I then asked some twenty-five teachers ( in schools and FE ) for their reactions to these questions .
3 I then spent some time trying to teach Clive how to breathe !
4 I then drew some gold lines between the square apertures to give some definition and help separate the four designs .
5 I then used some lovely red single shrub roses and some white Japanese anemones , placed upside down to take advantage of their silky backs , with some potentilla centres .
6 I then bought some dittany in the fine , covered , nineteenth-century market .
7 I then bought some designers ' gouache ( colourfast ) and found I could still paint wet into wet without the whole thing going into a swim as in a watercolour painting .
8 I then dissolved some of the hydroquinone crystals in water , put a drop of the solution on an ordinary glass microscope slide and allowed the water to evaporate naturally in air so that new , but much smaller , needle crystals were produced as the solution dried under the microscope .
9 Hawick was chosen because of its knitwear and tweed industries and busy auction mart which then handled some 180,000 sheep and lambs and 16,500 cattle annually .
10 They then reared some animals with one eye closed throughout the sensitive period , and as you see the result was dramatic — the closed eye lost control of almost all the neurons it would normally have activated .
11 It then took some time to raise the heavy engine and cut the rope from the propeller , but I finally managed it before drifting ashore .
12 He then took some food which would last for a while and packed it into his bag .
13 He then had some training in ophthalmic surgery in London , and concurrently with his post at the workhouse at Bedford , was a visiting ophthalmic surgeon to the County Hospital .
14 He then found some black crêpe paper and put some in his coal box saying , ‘ There , that is the coal . ’
15 He then gained some extra seconds of recuperation by tying up his laces .
16 He then performed some simple experiments to test whether the digger wasp recognized her own entrance by the distinctive array of odd objects ( haphazardly fallen sticks , pine cones , stones etc. ) around it , or by some stimulus emanating from the entrance itself .
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