Example sentences of "and then [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fed the slot , dialled Jack Ashdown 's number , and then fed it some more . |
| 2 | He raised his hands above his head and then stretched them both out at the unfortunate First Spiritualist . |
| 3 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 4 | ‘ But if they only looked at me coldly , and whispered behind their hands about me , and then left me one by one ? ’ |
| 5 | You drew me through the undergrowth out into the light and then left me bare and hurting . |
| 6 | " He 'd have had to have opened the door and then left it open when he reset the alarms . |
| 7 | I s I , I never really played with Windows , I just installed it to do the job of running this one application and then left it alone . |
| 8 | One used tansy leaves : ‘ You dried them and then rubbed them atween your hands . |
| 9 | Etienne Saqr , who used the name Abu Arz , the Father of the Cedars ’ — one of the more psychopathic of the minor Christian militia leaders — commanded a group which specialised in cruelty , whose men tied Palestinian prisoners to the backs of taxis and then dragged them 12 miles up the motorway to Jounieh . |
| 10 | His passenger helped pull him out and then carried him two miles away across fields from the accident scene . |
| 11 | Doing as she had bid herself , she walked into the cottage and then spoilt it all by slamming the door . |
| 12 | Dropping her head , she tugged a brush vigorously through the rippling red-gold , and then tossed it all back in a wild wavy curtain . |
| 13 | So I sprinkled this stuff inside every pair of knickers in the drawer and then folded them all up again carefully . ’ |
| 14 | And sewed on the sewing machine and then painted them all with raw linseed oil but raw linseed oil took a long while to dry but they soft . |
| 15 | It looked through the small door window , asked what was going on , and then told them all to stand back . |
| 16 | Dave talked right on and over the start of the lyric , and then made it worse by trying to pretend that his mistake was intentional . |
| 17 | And then shot him dead . ’ |
| 18 | He leaned back to tap on the glass partition and then slid it open . |
| 19 | She twisted away from him and backed over to the door , and then cracked it open , and peered out into the hall . |
| 20 | Primaflora took the kerchief and drew it over her cheeks and then held it taut , staring at the damp blotches . |
| 21 | Cleveland councillors agreed to try to improve relations with British Rail and then criticised it five minutes later . |
| 22 | Tony bought him a whisky and then bought him another . |
| 23 | There was a woman who wanted me to call her mother , and then called me awkward , exasperated and frightened with the dreams and the screams . |
| 24 | She closed her eyes again , wondering how long , and then opened them wide , staring in disbelief as he withdrew from her , his act far from complete , got up and with the purest gesture of impatience she had ever seen , threw an Oriental robe of some kind in garish , tribal colours , around his shoulders . |
| 25 | Holding his breath , Patrick lifted the gate slightly to prevent it scraping along the ground and then pushed it open . |
| 26 | Norman led them both and then lost them both . |
| 27 | He turned round , took her intercom control in his hand and then gave her another lesson in operating the controls . |
| 28 | For example , in fifteen fifty seven/eight , when Queen Mary lost Calais to the French , the income of the town corporation doubled in that year from three hundred pounds to six hundred , and that 's entirely because they pulled in awful lot of French boats and then charged them all a lot of ransom money before they sent them back to France . |
| 29 | For example , in fifteen fifty-seven , eight , when Queen Mary lost Calais to the French , the income of the town corporation doubled in that year from three hundreds pounds to six hundred and that 's entirely because they pulled in an awful lot of French boats and then charged them all a lot of ransom money before they sent them back to France . |