Example sentences of "[coord] then it [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was poised there , a rosy ball , and then it began to dip below the rim of the land . |
| 2 | The cat looked up , and then it began to work its way upwards , its eyes fixed on its intended prey . |
| 3 | A few places further down the dale had got it at once , and then it began to advance further up towards us . |
| 4 | The pain began , slowly at first , then , as though the knife-blade had been turned back to her heart by his subtle withdrawal from her , it began to enter her heart ; and then it began to revolve . |
| 5 | And then it began to get a bit darker . |
| 6 | It was alright for a few weeks and then it began to look very anaemic and sorry for itself . |
| 7 | And then it became perhaps a troublesome er entity . |
| 8 | Finally , foreign museums started contacting the Ministry of Culture and asking if they could buy , let us say , a picture by Malévich or Popova , and then it became clear that I had the pictures . |
| 9 | Erm then there was the er and he m Dr , and er Dr and then it became Dr , who is still there . |
| 10 | So before that it was a National Song , and then it became a National Anthem , eighteen fifty-two , before your time , I should think , eighteen fifty-two . |
| 11 | She said really she did all the hard work , and then it became easier . |
| 12 | And … and then it felt all wrong again … |
| 13 | And then it eased up a bit at dinner time and then it started again about two o'clock . |
| 14 | and then it ran out , sort of like swallowed forty P , before I even got to say what my name and number was . |
| 15 | There was this one for twenty five to thirty people and then there was another one for say forty or fifty and then it zoomed up to like a hundred . |
| 16 | Yeah and then it disappeared then , I think , you know , I could see it deteriorating every day it was about , it was about three of my cars parking here . |
| 17 | ‘ And then it died and I came home . ’ |
| 18 | stuff on it and they have to have a pin number , so you put your pin number in and then it tells you exactly how many copies your pin number has copied |
| 19 | And then we got a table tester to help them refresh their memories , it 's like a disc and then you got the slots and then it tells you your eight times and that 's good as well but I mean he 's got them off by heart which is brilliant ! |
| 20 | ‘ This means I miss my connection and then it creates a scatter at Middlesbrough as they try to fit me on to a train to get to Hartlepool in time . |
| 21 | goes into this other resistor here , where it goes and then it flows round again . |
| 22 | And then it struck me . |
| 23 | And then it struck her : She had no land ! |
| 24 | And then it struck him . |
| 25 | I mean you I do n't know if they 're dead or alive or and then it said see the next one , next week . |
| 26 | I think it said five six seven eight nine ten or summat on one side and then it said six seven eight nine on other side . |
| 27 | And then it said , and you , you might get to see Prince with his erm . |
| 28 | , and then it make it down to make it two thousand centigrade . |
| 29 | I just thought of the poem , standing there , and then it seemed clear . |
| 30 | And then it seemed that Duvall understood at last that he had been shot . |