Example sentences of "then [vb past] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Desperately , desperately ill ! ’ she said , over her shoulder , then swooped down to the dishwasher , picked up a handful of plates , and marched off towards a cupboard . |
| 2 | In later stages , cottage and craft industries were moved into factories , which then led on to the development of ‘ machinofacture ’ ( mechanised production ) through technological innovation . |
| 3 | Thus the script that Sidney Gilliatt , among others , had worked on , for A Yank at Oxford ( 1937 ) was taken back to Hollywood and then passed around to the resident heavyweights , including Ben Hecht , who would n't touch it , Herman Mankiewicz and Scott Fitzgerald . |
| 4 | I laid the sturdy Ministry of Defence plastic mug on the sand and then hopped round to the front of my tent to bring out my dirty washing . |
| 5 | Everyone then processed back to the Salle des fêtes , where coffee was served ; the Emperor left shortly afterwards to go to his study , where he could smoke his cigarette ; the male guests who shared his habit were allowed to retire to the smoking room , while the Empress remained behind with the ladies . |
| 6 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 7 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 8 | In the end , she threw her pencil across the room in frustration , then paced over to the window . |
| 9 | checked with his radio , he goes alright then phoned back to the police station on his radio , he said it 's not stolen the owner 's now here he said , can you please get it moved ? |
| 10 | He drank water from the pitcher , then staggered over to the basin on the table and thrust his head into it , the chill water making him gasp . |
| 11 | He paused for a while to compose himself then staggered down to the porter 's lodge . |
| 12 | He was about to apologize , remembered the microphone , then moved round to the other side of the desk and sat down . |
| 13 | He then moved forward to the person on the ground and handcuffed his hands behind his back . |
| 14 | Of that boy being moved , and hidden in the cupboard in the washroom in Belmodes , then moved again to the house in Mouncy Street . |
| 15 | We then moved on to the spiralling property prices in Oxford , the purchase price of the Parsons ' house compared to its current estimated value , the solicitor 's recent attic conversion , and so on and so forth . |
| 16 | A moment later the shadowy figure came into the hallway , hesitated for a second , then moved across to the stairs . |
| 17 | The Lasius fuliginosus in the experiment started by walking between the two trails , and then moved across to the stronger trail in such a way as to balance the odour strengths sensed by their two antennae ( Figure 6.5 ) . |
| 18 | He waved to show he was all right , then swam back to the floating machine , still laughing . |
| 19 | Charsky poured himself a glass of apple juice , then wandered back to the bedroom to finish dressing . |
| 20 | He stared down at the Hoflin farm , then clumped back to the car . |
| 21 | We then cycled uphill to the town of Rosebush with its deserted slate quarries . |
| 22 | Tony came back and handed her a tall glass of iced Pimm 's filled with fruit , then flopped on to the sun-lounger beside her , smiling in his uncomplicated way . |
| 23 | Her body was lifted from the coffin and carried through the dusk across the open fields that then came up to the hospital , to Ferry Beach . |
| 24 | Put the boat into the boat-house and made the doors fast , then came up to the house . |
| 25 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |
| 26 | He looked inquiringly at Narouz and then came across to the two men , bowed and shook hands . |
| 27 | ‘ I read Middle Eastern Languages , and spent a year in Turkey after Oxford , then came back to the Museum . |
| 28 | He rose from his chair , walked to the window , looked out , then came back to the table . |
| 29 | Finch finished the movement and then came back to the other room , thinking of how much time he had spent with Henry and Betty over the years . |
| 30 | I had a few words with him , then came back to the shop . ’ |