Example sentences of "then [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] 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 | Case loads of course built up gradually as the samples were generated , and then tailed off after the recruitment year ended . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Later , Mr Friel had refused his friend 's invitation to escort him home , then met up with the accused again by chance and been assaulted . |
| 6 | The Muslim 's bird slowly righted itself , got unsteadily to its feet , then limped off through the legs of the crowd . |
| 7 | There is the metal-ring type muzzle , which is screwed into place via a pin passed across the inside of a ferret 's mouth behind its big teeth and then threaded back into the ring . |
| 8 | Sir Charles and Lady Dobson lived on Pacific Drive , a road that wound its way through the canyons , then doubled back towards the ocean to link , eventually , with the South Coast Expressway . |
| 9 | I said I believed them to be following the correct route and then crept off into the mist surreptitiously to whip out my compass . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He paused , looked at her then stalked off down the aisle . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Finally Ms Cann proposed an unorthodox and possibly unique solution : publication rights as part of merchandising would be retained by the publishers jointly , to be pooled and then shared out in the most appropriate way . |
| 14 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He then got up off the floor and threatened to hit the labour master with his boots in his hand . |
| 17 | The lift halted at the twelfth floor for the girls to get out , then whispered on towards the fifteenth . |
| 18 | He then scorched out of the gate , almost crashing his already scratched BMW . |
| 19 | His scream echoed madly inside the tunnel as he fell was slammed against the brickwork then bounced back against the speeding train , his body pulped by the impact . |
| 20 | In the end , she threw her pencil across the room in frustration , then paced over to the window . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He paused for a while to compose himself then staggered down to the porter 's lodge . |
| 24 | I made sure I had sufficient pellets in my jacket pockets , then headed out of the house for the Rabbit Grounds on the mainland , between the large branch of the creek and the town dump . |
| 25 | He was about to apologize , remembered the microphone , then moved round to the other side of the desk and sat down . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It found an eddy where the outpouring of a supply conduit splashed steadily , and it swung , steadied , and then moved on into the gloom . |
| 28 | The archaeologists camped uncomfortably inside them for a while , then moved out into the townships that had mushroomed around the site . |
| 29 | The party then moved off down the Spanish Steps to the Hotel della Villa where the main dinner and presentations took place . |
| 30 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |