Example sentences of "then [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which then made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 2 | Left to her own devices , Lucy wondered what she should do next , then realised she had little option but to wait until she ran into Silas . |
| 3 | Each one of us was beckoned over to have a go when it was my turn I rushed over and put the tanks on I then submerged It felt strange breathing under water like a fish the bubble emitted from the regulator trickled up the side of my face . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't be like that , ’ said Mr Pilcher , and he then gave me to understand that for an unspecified weekly consideration I could purchase his protection , allowing me and Mrs Mouse to continue with our musical evenings without their being gate-crashed by him and his colleagues . |
| 5 | Only then did we introduce some terminology . |
| 6 | Only then did she become conscious that its matching wrap was no longer wrapped around her . |
| 7 | Why then did you write this book ? |
| 8 | He then altered it to read forty thousand and five pounds and transferred it into his own bank account . |
| 9 | Having walked back to the cottage , she put the ladder against the wall , then tested it to make sure it was firm . |
| 10 | She started to think that she had a vocation for taking heroic decisions , but it was really nothing more sustaining than a rabid kind of recklessness that erupted suddenly and then left her feeling bleak and inept . |