Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I waited at the barrier , the motley flesh around me all pulsing with welcome . |
| 2 | Then I looked at the cheerful cockney . |
| 3 | Then I looked at the rest of myself , and all the rest of me was a … |
| 4 | I half got up , then I looked at the hole he 'd gone down and at the paper in my hand . |
| 5 | Then I looked at the table . |
| 6 | Then I looked at the chassis and registration numbers and realised it was my old car . |
| 7 | Then I laughed at the first of Danny Kelly 's many amusing jokes , met The World 's Greatest Rock Photographer , realised there was no NME clique , and knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 8 | Oh they bag something terrible but then I say at the price I 'm not gon na buy them , I 'm not , but in the Dodger 's there 's not one small in any colour |
| 9 | ag again that 's why I do n't want you to be heavy cos I do n't want say to say oh you know you 've brought us you know , fifteen pages and we worked our way through it and then you know at the end of the day we do all of it , yeah |
| 10 | and then you look at the normal lights |
| 11 | It says things like impartial advice , does n't it for mortgages , erm in the Nottingham and the Derby paper , and then you read at the bottom it says erm an appointed representative of Legal and General . |
| 12 | But even then you remained at the beck and call of the organization . |
| 13 | And then she glanced at the window ; the darkness outside was complete . |
| 14 | Then she stared at the picture for a full minute . |
| 15 | She used Peter 's knife to cut off the boot , then she looked at the broken leg . |
| 16 | And then she looked at the empty stairway beside her . |
| 17 | Then she screamed at the children . |
| 18 | Then she sat at the big table with only a pot of tea for herself while Frankie and his father cleared their plates in silence . |
| 19 | Then she sat at the roll-top desk with the magazine in front of her , took a deep breath and lifted the receiver off its hook . |
| 20 | We lost touch for a couple of years and then we met at the Coventry Specimen Group Stag Night and found that each of us had conceded to an extent and were now using almost identical rods . |
| 21 | If the absolutely fundamental achievements of human culture represented in the prohibitions on violence against authority and the temptation to incest which occasion it are loosened , then we stand at the edge of a frightful abyss which represents a collapse into an almost pre-human state of savagery and violence . |
| 22 | And then we sat at the far side of the Old Gate bridge and er an old lady came along and said , and she was counting them but she said , just look at that thing , she counted seven although , in actual fact , by then th these dra the seven drakes had stopped cha chasing the duck and they were all sitting down . |
| 23 | Then we move at the same time . |
| 24 | and then they look at the caravan ! |
| 25 | As long as history is assumed to operate according to the protocols of a conventional logic , where a contradiction simply means you can not think it or do it as Hirst supposes , then it remains at the impasse he describes . |
| 26 | And then it bulges at the end , you see , that 'll do cos if you |
| 27 | Then it appeared at the end of the long straight leading into town . |
| 28 | and they 've done ever so well cos they did all Cos of course we had fine whether last week , they got everything done , and then it poured at the weekend but they were n't there , and now they 're back on site the weather 's cheered up again . |
| 29 | Then he looked at the linen she was holding across her arms , and she followed his gaze and said , as she motioned her hand towards the door , ‘ This … this is our house too . |
| 30 | Then he looked at the old eagle again and shaking his head said , ‘ During the last war when I was a prisoner I knew men who were nearer to death than this and yet by some force of will or perhaps some power greater than us they survived . |