Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb past] up the " in BNC.

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1 I slowed down but even then I locked up the front wheel in one of the fast corners and I fell again .
2 Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle .
3 At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar .
4 Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’
5 Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure .
6 Then I plucked up the courage to start moving around on my own and began walking down a path when the gentleman in grey asked people to stand aside , and I stepped well back .
7 Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me .
8 Then I picked up the Nescafe tin and prised the lid off .
9 Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was .
10 Then I picked up the lamp torch and held it above my head .
11 Thus at my ease , I ate my tea and then I washed up the dirty crocks .
12 Then I climbed up the rope myself .
13 I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
14 Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind .
15 Then she took up the cloth , worked at the edge a moment and tore it neatly along the weave .
16 Then she took up the discarded tray and looked back at him where he stood now , leaning against the wall between the French windows , his silver flask of brandy open as he sipped defiantly , watching her with a black scowl on his face .
17 She waited until he had passed through the door that led to the stairs ; then she covered up the trays of now cooling toffee , put a saucer of milk down for the cat , stroked the animal 's purring head , saying the while , ‘ Now you get to work , Flotsie , and put your score up tonight , ’ then she went out , and locked the door .
18 Puzzled at first , she turned every page , then she held up the book by its spine and let the pages flutter ; no sheet of paper fell out .
19 Then she gave up the struggle and dropped on her knees beside Debbie .
20 Then she picked up the book of ‘ psychological correspondences ’ again and began with difficulty to read the letters .
21 Then she picked up the wicker bird cage and took it to the sill .
22 Then she picked up the dirty washing and went to the door .
23 Then she picked up the letter with the neatly typed address .
24 Then she picked up the tall glass she had carried down with her , and which was now empty , walked sedately to the water 's edge , filled it with ice-cold water and returned to see that he had not shifted .
25 She waited until she heard the outer door close , then she picked up the receiver .
26 Ellen held her happy smile till the courtesy taxi had disappeared , then she tore up the proctologist 's business card .
27 Then she tore up the sheet .
28 just got into Wales and we camped on that flat land and then we went up the riv , oh we 've got it on the
29 But even then we divided up the list and had at least an aisle between us .
30 And he was shouting back to him , but , and then they went up the stair and they called up the stair and I and I do n't know whether it was an affair , the fella that was screaming but he him a mouthful !
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