Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I locked the Laboratory door , kept all the staff in the main hall , and waited there until Dr. Kerrison arrived . |
| 2 | Then I twisted the film and note together into a paper towel and went out to try to find Bill Baudelaire , reckoning it might be all right to speak to him casually down on ground level since Filmer was n't there to see . |
| 3 | Then I lifted the foot and as I explored further I found a tender area in the superficial flexor . |
| 4 | Then I cooked the breakfast . |
| 5 | I did n't give him a chance to say anything , just said I was coming to his place right that minute , and then I put the phone down . ’ |
| 6 | I closed my eyes and listened to the cracks and smashes until one especially loud thump ended in a low buzz telephones do n't usually make ; then I put the phone down again , turned , looked upward , and set wearily off , back up the stairs . |
| 7 | so it 's obvious what you did , and then I put the name |
| 8 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 9 | Then I put the key on the chest of drawers , and left . ’ |
| 10 | I followed him , Lily , and then — I could n't believe it — I saw where he 'd a desk key hidden , so then I put the books down sudden , and bent double . |
| 11 | I did most of them but then I left the sheet at home , sign that bit . |
| 12 | Then I left the phone off the hook . |
| 13 | I felt very wicked taking them to a pawnbroker , and then I sent the money to Giulia . |
| 14 | No , at first it was difficult but then I had the Wilsons to help me . |
| 15 | Yeah , so erm cos then I had the argument about putting them back in the box . |
| 16 | By this time I was more than ready to ask Moby what she did , and how much it cost — but then I felt the full-thighed waft of a new female presence . |
| 17 | But even then I felt the power , deep down in my bones . |
| 18 | Then I felt the post begin to slide upwards through my hands , as if more of it were coming out of the ground . |
| 19 | Then I asked the administrator , who was called Lucy ( I was right about The Beatles ) , what the real form was on Sal 's case . |
| 20 | ’ Then I asked the children to write about some experience they could recall that had something physical about it . |
| 21 | Then I unlocked the door . |
| 22 | Then I heard the footsteps … coming up fast= an echoing , slapping sound making me think of a great bird or bat flapping up from the bottom of a wall … |
| 23 | Then I heard the sounds of a desperate struggle , just above my room . |
| 24 | Then I heard the door open again , and turned , thinking Mrs Raffald would be there with her things for tidying up , but it was Robert . |
| 25 | Then I heard the door , and you came in , and — and I did not dare to reveal myself because — ’ |
| 26 | I walked almost to the edge of the forest , then I heard the voice . |
| 27 | He seemed vulnerable but then I heard the chink of armour and , looking carefully through the trees which swept up from the river , caught a glimpse of colour and steel and knew that help , if he needed it , was never far away . |
| 28 | Then I heard the taxi 's arrival , that unmistakably expectant panting . |
| 29 | Then I heard the Hispaniola hit the little boat , and I was left with no way to escape . |
| 30 | I had no time to find out , because just then I heard the noise of the drawbridge coming down . |