Example sentences of "then he [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blattern the postman walked slowly across the green , more slowly than ever , whilst Alida waited , twitching at the curtains , and then he paused at their gate before walking past . |
| 2 | Rickie was literally dancing in circles around me as I walked down the dock towards his sister , but then he paused in his frenetic progress to light one cigarette from the stump of another , and I wondered just what perverted fate decreed that such a boy should receive a legacy of six million dollars . |
| 3 | Then he looked at her scarlet face , at the awful misery in her eyes and did n't want to laugh any more . |
| 4 | He shot a glance at Ellen , making sure that she had understood him as well as Thessy , then he looked at his watch and shouted for Bellybutton to start up one of the workboats . |
| 5 | Then he looked at his watch . |
| 6 | Harvey squeezed the sweat from his face with the edge of his hand and then he looked at his hand as though trying to tell his own fortune . |
| 7 | Then he looked into her face , folding his own arms across his chest — arms that against the faded T-shirt were mahogany-dark . |
| 8 | Then he looked into her eyes . |
| 9 | He breathed into Pat 's mouth , then he looked into his eyes — ’ |
| 10 | And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen . |
| 11 | Then he asked for our passports , made some notes at the bottom of the itinerary and handed the passports back . |
| 12 | When he had inspected the target , when he had seen the envy of the officers who were gathered behind him , when he had received the instructor 's grudging approval , then he walked to his guard 's car . |
| 13 | Then he walked into his bedroom and sat on the edge of his bed with his head bowed while the bath filled , breathing deeply . |
| 14 | Then he felt inside his long cloak and pulled out a map . |
| 15 | He looked at her and frowned as though he would make a denial and then he saw from her face that she knew the truth . |
| 16 | Then he ran to his car and drove five miles to alert police and park rangers . |
| 17 | If indeed he 'd secured the tickets as a way of bribing her between the sheets , then he suffered for his lust . |
| 18 | Now Mauro has a strong North-East accent but then he suffered for his Italian name and voice . |
| 19 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 20 | For a second I thought he was going to hit me , but then he reached into his jacket pocket and brought out a wallet that he unfolded and thrust towards me , giving me just enough time to see that he held the rank of chief inspector , one of the highest ranks in the Bahamian police force , then the wallet was snapped shut and Deacon Billingsley moved to stand very close to me , so close that I could smell the cigar smoke on his breath . |
| 21 | Then he reached in his sack for a pressie |
| 22 | But then he embarked on his main thesis , which was that the entire Western intelligence system in Britain , France , Germany and America had been deeply penetrated by the KGB and systematically manipulated with clever disinformation put out by Moscow . |
| 23 | Then he thought of his own death , of his own funeral . |
| 24 | He thought with envy of the young locum doctor standing in for him at home , seeing his patients at this very moment , and then he thought of his ex-wife , and his ex-cat , which used to sleep on their bed , and then with interest and longing of flukes , the flukes of absorption that can at least put the unforgettable at some merciful remove . |
| 25 | Then he thought about his life now — the empty days , the dead plans . |
| 26 | Then he exhaled through his nose and laid his fists , with care , back on the table . |
| 27 | Then he drank from his cup and set it aside . |
| 28 | Siegfried 's jaw clenched tight for a moment then he motioned with his hand . |
| 29 | Then he tugged at his reins in the moonlight , and galloped away to the West . |
| 30 | Pete listened in the hallway for a few seconds , and then he knocked on her door . |