Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I walked across empty fields for some hours until I reached a village . |
| 2 | And then I went to British Legion to have a drink . |
| 3 | for a while I was in the Air Force and then I lived in various parts of the country . |
| 4 | Then I moved into worried . |
| 5 | I switched increasingly to erm political history , then I moved from economic and political history to social history , to some extent linking the two , and increasingly over the last ten years , partly through the work that I 've done on the history of broadcasting , and on twentieth century history , I think I would say that I would now be a cultural historian . |
| 6 | Then she stiffened in shocked disbelief , the Campari bottle poised precariously over her glass . |
| 7 | Then she added for good measure , ‘ I do n't know what you want to talk to me about , do I ? ’ |
| 8 | Then she added with sudden firmness , ‘ But after that I shall go home . |
| 9 | For a moment she could n't believe she had actually struck , then she stared in horrified fascination at the dark red stain spreading diagonally across de Raimes ' belly and down to his thigh . |
| 10 | Then she laughed with sudden pleasure . |
| 11 | Then she thought with simple and hard resolve : It is time to get married . |
| 12 | Then she looked at Sabine . |
| 13 | In the title role , Anne Dawson remained passive until error and madness set in near the end ; then she sang with increased energy , and spun her lines with great beauty . |
| 14 | Then she undressed with due care for her dress , unbelievably crisp after its night of stress . |
| 15 | Then she retreated in bleak anguish to her bedroom , and sat hunched in the window-seat , looking out over the soft rolling lawns and distant Cotswold hills , dimly aware that her single most painful desire was that her mother were still alive , so she could pour out the secret desolation to the one person who 'd have understood … |
| 16 | We did use black paper , but it looked terrible and attracted graffiti , so then we thought of fine art . |
| 17 | and we , then we went to Universal Studios did n't we ? |
| 18 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
| 19 | It all happened in Salisbury ; and then we travelled with overseas people for meetings in other centres like Bulawayo , Gwelo , Wankie — with a day at the Victoria Falls . |
| 20 | Then they looked like new again . |
| 21 | Dorothy Newman nudged her fellow conspirator back to reality , then they ran at breakneck speed to their respective homes . |
| 22 | Then they boasted about technological innovations — steam engines , railway locomotives , steam turbines and so on . |
| 23 | My mother enquired after Ras Tafari 's wife and family , especially after his eldest son , Asfa Wossen , who as a baby at the time of the battle of Sagale had sheltered with us in the Legation ; then they spoke of mutual friends , and recalled events that had occurred while we were in Abyssinia . |
| 24 | Then it started on Cumbrian limestone , blossomed to Lakeland quarries and so , finally , to Raven Crag . |
| 25 | Then it rose through clinging cloud , curving gracefully outward like an upturned trumpet until it was truncated by a plateau fully a quarter of a mile across . |
| 26 | It was then he knew for certain that the oriental he had just shot was not the one from whom he had wanted to exact retribution for injuring Pam — because at the other end of the corridor he found himself looking into the glittering black eyes of his hated enemy , Angel One . |
| 27 | First he went to St Andrew 's in Scotland , then to Rome ; then he engaged in regular trading between England and Scotland for a while ; then he became a professional sailor . |
| 28 | Then he dropped to roof-top height and fled for home through the deepening dusk . |
| 29 | ‘ Anyway , ’ she went on , ‘ then he went to portugal and everything changed of course you should really have some new blinds but they 're so expensive and they warp . ’ |
| 30 | According to Gregory , at the end of his life he destroyed the kingdom of Cologne under Sigibert the Lame , then he turned against various other kings of the Franks , Chararic and Ragnachar , whose base was in Cambrai , along with the latter 's brothers , Ricchar and Rignomer , who was killed in Le Mans . |