Example sentences of "then i [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The till was now 20 deep with impatient customers clutching their coffee pots and blenders — and then I discovered the real bane of the shop assistant 's life : The Haggler . |
| 2 | Then I discovered the Bulgarian women 's choirs , ‘ Le Mystre Des Voix Bulgares ’ — it 's really funny to hear this stuff come screaming out of your subconscious and out through the amplifier … |
| 3 | Then I left the surveying surveyor civil engineering I went in the black gang . |
| 4 | So I had to look after myself so I I had one and then I had the other one , just stop at two . |
| 5 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 6 | Then I ascended the narrow stairs to his doorway . |
| 7 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 8 | Then I unlocked the main door . |
| 9 | I wandered down the Rue de la Carbière then I heard the first soul-searing howl : the wolves were back in Paris , hunting for whatever they could find . |
| 10 | Then I heard the front door close and the sound of his car going down the road . |
| 11 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 12 | Then I took the oldest of the wasp cadavers from its little tray and tipped it on to the white pile of granules . |
| 13 | When we got back from Majorca , I was sent to another school for a year , and then I took the so-called eleven-plus examination . |
| 14 | Then I saw the spare figure of Captain Robins walking towards me , bag in hand : even on land after such a short voyage he had the kind of rolling gait that proclaimed him a man of the sea . |
| 15 | Then I saw the small monster too . |
| 16 | I figured I must be the only fool who was trying to start something ; I was trying to get that big BB King sound and then I saw The Fabulous Thunderbirds , with Jimmie Vaughan on guitar . |
| 17 | And then I saw The Real McCoy that was the last one I think . |
| 18 | I thought about leaving a few of Simon 's visiting cards around , or suggesting they all get together and build a glider in the loft , but then I saw the frosty-eyed Matron in a blue uniform and matching hair rinse clocking me from behind the desk . |
| 19 | Then I saw the top tier of the cake and that has got to be the er piece , piece de resistance I think as the French say and I know that some very exciting ideas are coming out of the South East region . |
| 20 | Then I saw the senior registrar , who had already been briefed by the house officer about my history of abuse . |
| 21 | I thought of the luxury we were enjoying ; our comfortable beds , baths , and motor cars , and then I recalled the ancient custom of giving a man selected for the sacrifice a royal time of it before the appointed day . |
| 22 | Then I enjoyed the good Pinewood Studio British film and stood for ‘ The King , ’ at the end of the show . |
| 23 | If I lost , then I got the final reward . |
| 24 | Well , it did and then I laughed the loudest , but it hurt inside . |
| 25 | well you see then I thought the electric running it you know |
| 26 | Then I remembered the new subway . |
| 27 | Then I switched the dim hall light on , and experienced again the initial impact of the tobacco wallpaper and chocolate paint , the threadbare linoleum , the high gloomy ceilings that you were reluctant to look at for fear you should see bats hanging there . |
| 28 | Then I opened the back door and out they went . |
| 29 | Then I adjusted the red screen behind me and went into Small Ward Two . |
| 30 | Then I tried the new needle supplied with the machine when I bought it many years ago . |