Example sentences of "then told " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 2 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 3 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 4 | But he then told each layer of management to appoint the layer below it . |
| 5 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 6 | As the trucks made to leave the following day for the final part of the journey to Arcady , Cabochon asked Ari if he could speak with her , and then told her about what he feared waited in Arcady for him . |
| 7 | If , and to my mind it 's a colossal if , if she managed to seduce him and then told him he was the father-to-be , and if he believed it , it would have been more his style to pack her off home to her parents and provide for her . |
| 8 | She shrugged her shoulders , popped it back in , won the fight as well as the following three contests to take the title — and only then told Dr Ken Kingsbury , the English team doctor , of her injury . |
| 9 | ‘ When I was still involved with Vernons , we participated in the introduction of the lotteries in both New York and Sydney , and our experience then told me that football pools would be swept away should lotteries ever come to Britain . |
| 10 | Bartram then told Miller about his method of collecting specimens of pines ; when they are in flower and the young cone just impregnated , and asked whether European pines set their cones on the same spring 's shoot , ‘ or the second year 's wood , as by your draught , the Scotch Pine doth ? ’ |
| 11 | Then told him about Maggie 's suggestion of putting the zinc bath out the rear . |
| 12 | Mrs James then told the court how she and Mr Loxton had been transported by the police to Nottingham some time later , where she saw the same man in a street there . |
| 13 | Harris then told the court that he had again approached Drew the following day . |
| 14 | It then told me , in some way , that Shaun was being kicked out and it said : Honestly , Sara , you do n't know how difficult he is when you 're not around , ’ she says . |
| 15 | He took it to the shop counter , then told the sales assistant that he had changed his mind and wanted lager . |
| 16 | Follow the sequence : humans are made in the image of God , given dominion , and then told to follow a vegetarian diet ( Gen. 1:29 ) . |
| 17 | The doctor then told Alexander that he must go on with the treatment . |
| 18 | She then told me of a child she had had who had been still-born . |
| 19 | Yngwie then told me how he created the orchestra on ‘ Fire And Ice ’ : ‘ We had two violins , a viola , a cello and a contrabass and we overdubbed that quartet four times , so on record it sounds like a chamber orchestra rather than just a quartet . |
| 20 | This father , an Englishman — like the other parents involved in this affair — then told what happened next . |
| 21 | STUDENT Chris Smith was given £1,000 from a pools company — and then told : ‘ Sorry , we 've made a mistake . ’ |
| 22 | The proctologist handed me three envelopes , one addressed to each of us , then told me that if I ever had piles I could rely on him to cut them out for cost . |
| 23 | I then told them about the apparition , how I had seen someone walking down the shed and then suddenly disappearing . |
| 24 | Brandon then told one of the other group : ‘ Order your food and leave if you do n't want trouble , or I 'll splatter your face across the road . ’ |
| 25 | In ancient Egypt , doctors put wheat and barley seeds into separate cloth purses and then told the woman to ‘ pass her water on it every day … |
| 26 | He tried to ignore her and then told her to go away . |
| 27 | He then told Raine , 37 , where he intended to stick various parts of his anatomy . |
| 28 | COUNCIL chiefs wrote to Andrew Jones to say they were sorry his father had died … then told him to quit the family home . |
| 29 | He said Second Lieutenant James Mundell then told him : ‘ I 'm going to fill you in ’ — and hit him in the face . |
| 30 | Angry Doug blew his top , then told Restormel Borough Council in Cornwall what they could do with the factory plan . |