Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | And then me picking up the keys living here and taking it down the road ! |
2 | Then I take back the paper . |
3 | I slowed down but even then I locked up the front wheel in one of the fast corners and I fell again . |
4 | Then I pass back the gun . |
5 | Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle . |
6 | At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar . |
7 | Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’ |
8 | Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure . |
9 | One man who 's going to stay upstairs has the head of the wardrobe , you go tro I go trotting downstairs you see , and then I climb up the ladder And the ladder remember is over the edge of the sill . |
10 | Then I lay over a great slab of rock which warmed the water almost to bath-heat . |
11 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
12 | I stop at the drive-in bank then I drive out the highway to the lake to pick up my date . |
13 | And then I goes up the shute . |
14 | Then I switched off the music centre and strolled over to the window to take a last look at the night outside . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Then I skipped down the entry ladder with indescribable relief . |
17 | I took all of them , then I phoned up a couple of people I knew . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
20 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
21 | Then I picked up a bit of naan bread and mopped up my curry sauce . |
22 | Then I picked up the Nescafe tin and prised the lid off . |
23 | Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was . |
24 | Then I picked up the lamp torch and held it above my head . |
25 | Thus at my ease , I ate my tea and then I washed up the dirty crocks . |
26 | Then I turned out the light and settled at the window amidst the bottle-brush fronds of monkey-puzzle . |
27 | Then I climbed up the rope myself . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | You can feel the brake and then you pick up the feel of the tyre and it starts moving a little bit . |
30 | You get mad , sometimes you cry , then you pick up the pieces and get on , because there 's always someone else who needs you . ’ |