Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ’ Then I asked the children to write about some experience they could recall that had something physical about it . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | Then I heard the sounds of a desperate struggle , just above my room . |
| 5 | Then I heard the growls of support coming from our own side for proposals like Family Credit and the ending of SERPS . |
| 6 | ‘ I used to hate punk rock , ’ she continued , ‘ and then I heard The Stranglers . |
| 7 | Then I took the tablets all at once . |
| 8 | Then I saw the photographs in the newspapers , and I was still unsure . |
| 9 | Then I saw the uniforms . ’ |
| 10 | And then I remember the crowds of people below my window , who shouted : ‘ Long live love ! ’ |
| 11 | Then I got the things that I wanted from the ship . |
| 12 | Then I got the nuts off , by which time these two ladies had become a crowd of people staring at me changing this tyre , and then it becomes a performance . |
| 13 | But then I got the drawers in have n't I ? |
| 14 | then again all I turned round and said the bloke that I hit , he said he did n't want to press charges , but then I thought the police can bring out their own prosecution against me but they turned round and said no he does n't want to press charges so we 'll just caution you again . |
| 15 | Then I let the lines go . |
| 16 | Then I let the dogs off their chains . |
| 17 | Then I remembered the guns which made a lot of smoke . |
| 18 | Then I gave the police a run around the car park . |
| 19 | Then I slid the catches sideways and — nothing happened . |
| 20 | Then I store the magazines in the bottom of the wardrobe as they take up too much space in my knitting room . |
| 21 | well you can get so far , but then I work the brackets out and you do n't always have to work the brackets out |
| 22 | As I look at the water I hear a distinctive slurp as a chub sucks some morsel through the surface ; then I see the rings rippling away from the spot where it happened . |
| 23 | Then I see the police car . |
| 24 | The teachers were in on my research from the beginning , erm I originally gained the co-operation of the headmaster — he allowed me to come into the school — and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative , in fact , far more cooperative than I had a really had a right to expect . |
| 25 | I originally gained the co-operated of the headmaster , who allowed me to come into the school , and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative in fact , far more co-operative than I really high a right to expect . |
| 26 | Then I dream the dreams , and the uncertainty , suspicion , anger and emptiness engulf me all over again . |
| 27 | I could n't stand it , I got him to retie my hands in front and then I unhooked the monsters and smashed them on the hearth . |
| 28 | Then I plotted the changes in the percentage of each kind of animal against time . |
| 29 | Then I pulled the stitches of the band through those of the garment , and cast off using a latch tool . |
| 30 | Then I dismissed the students and turned myself loose on the streets of Salamanca , under the burning sun of an Indian summer , trying to get my emotions under control . |