Example sentences of "then [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The man did n't need telling twice , and as the boy began to follow him , Connor suddenly remembered : at some time during the evening , when the saloon till ran short of change , he had put in some silver of his own and taken out a fiver — then stuffed it in a pewter tankard on the shelf for safekeeping .
2 Meanwhile her friend walked as far as the bike , then rode it to the point where he met Lorna , who then rode further while he walked … and so on .
3 Was she having a sly laugh at his expense , talking nonsense and then cornering him with a sudden question ?
4 In ways more amenable to women 's visual pleasure , off-beat films which then made it into the mainstream distribution circuit such as Lianna ( Nelson/Renzi ) , Desert Hearts , I 've Heard the Mermaids Singing ( Rozema ) and Percy Adlon 's work with Marianne Sagebrecht in Baghdad Café and Sugar Baby have achieved a degree of success in changing the dynamics of female objectification and sexual fantasy in an entertainment setting .
5 According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman .
6 She then stabbed him with a butcher 's knife hidden in the bouquet .
7 All the forceful tact Aunt Tossie possessed was needed to convince Dada that only champagne , the best champagne , would be appropriate to the occasion , and then to compel him into the stony depths of the cellars to root with Twomey along the half-empty bins where forgotten treasures spoiled .
8 Eugene Forster paused , raised one of his bushy eyebrows , then slowly and deliberately , with the wisdom of previous experience , finished the whisky , drew one last time on the cigar then plunged it with a hiss into the water , before he took the ‘ phone .
9 He clawed at the broken wheel that first dragged him across , then pinned him to the road .
10 He scratched under his bag wig , knocking it askew , then straightened it in a fussy way , all the time fidgeting in his seat as if the bugs were biting there too .
11 He then led them into the Catherine Palace , once more brandishing his authority whenever an official came forward to stop them .
12 Another guard frisked him expertly then led him up the steps into the house .
13 He calmed the animal , quickly inspected it , then led it to a second , checked this animal too for wounds and led it to Wynne-Jones .
14 Gy François then led us to the village 's chimpanzee sanctuary , a small grass-covered shelter where rice is regularly laid on a few very old-looking chimpanzee skulls .
15 I understand that any such information is presented by the control computer , which can then convey it to the police officer concerned .
16 He then passed it through the letterbox and the baby ate her meal on the freezing patio .
17 Chant dug in his inside pocket and pulled out his wallet , then passed it through the window , letting it drop on the seat beside the driver .
18 I tucked a ten-dollar bill into the pocket of his jacket , while he tried to wave my arm away , then clapped him on the shoulder .
19 Ponomarev then announced it to the world at an International Conference on Nuclear Physics in Vancouver during August 1977 .
20 OS/400 : an attendant locks you into the car and then drives you to the store , where you get to watch everyone else buy fillet mignons .
21 However if a chick is first imprinted on a yellow flashing light , it will then prefer it to a red one .
22 He remembered how Izzy Kleiber had fought and kicked right to the end — until the moment when they lifted him up , then lowered him over the outer wall of the harbour , where the greedy river licked its oily lips and waited , invisible in the darkness below … .
23 Sheldukher raised the weapon and then lowered it with a sigh .
24 Then goes he to the length of all his arm ,
25 If you if you need to do something about it , then er in order to secure that order for a hundred , then sell them at the old price .
26 This means you get the debt guaranteed by a bank in the buyer 's country , then sell it at a discount to another bank .
27 Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year .
28 For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon .
29 He could borrow enough to buy an asset in the cash market , hold on to it for T years ( earning any income but bearing any carrying costs including interest on borrowed funds involved ) , and then sell it in the cash market and also repay the loan with interest .
30 He will then answer them at the council meeting .
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