Example sentences of "then he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Keef always laughs at that , an' then 'e wheezes a bit an' , like gasps for breath an' falls over . |
2 | Then he met a man who had a goose for sale . |
3 | A brief pause followed , then he asked a question . |
4 | Then he made a sign to Sikes to tell Nancy to leave the room . |
5 | Then he made a question mark away to the right on the same line . |
6 | It looks as if there was an opinion on high to leave Galileo alone , but then he made a mistake . |
7 | Where the defendant 's entry is by authority of law as opposed to the plaintiff 's authority and the defendant subsequently abuses that right , then he becomes a trespasser ab initio ( from the moment of entry ) ( Six Carpenters Case ( 1610 ) 8 Co Rep 146A ) . |
8 | He acquired a small capital by scavenging and became a pedlar ; then he became a partner in a ship ; and his skill as a sailor and his fondness for travel took him to Scotland and Italy , to Denmark and Flanders . |
9 | Giant-fiend of a hundred hands , with a shower of arrowy death-pangs he transpierced me , and then he became a wolf , and lay a-gnawing at my bones ! |
10 | Then he felt a cloth being held against the wound . |
11 | Then he caused a shock on the club and home front by switching to Glentoran . |
12 | He was educated at Lincoln until his mother 's death in 1845 and then he attended a boarding-school in Kibworth , Leicestershire ( 1845–6 ) . |
13 | Then he developed a foot infection after running at Ascot . ’ |
14 | Then he saw a policeman near him , so he began to sing and shout and make a lot of noise . |
15 | But then he saw a servant he had that day badly mutilated , also pointing . |
16 | Then he saw a stone fall , glance off a crag and hit Corti on the head . |
17 | And then he saw a face he recognized . |
18 | Then he ordered a beer , saying : ‘ Nasty weather for flying . |
19 | Then he meets a man called David Wilkerson , a preacher , who stands on street corners telling the young people about God . |
20 | Then he wrote a novel and sent it to a magazine which rejected it . |
21 | And suddenly he remembered standing here , it was dark-green all around him , but the sky above was blue , the sun must 've been setting , it was quiet , just the creak of a tree , the whir of an insect 's wing , he 'd been standing motionless , as if in a trance , and then he heard a voice , his mother 's voice . |
22 | And then he heard a voice . |
23 | Then he heard a crash like something had dropped . |
24 | Just then he heard a knock at his door , Randolph wondered who it could be . |
25 | But he did not open the door , because just then he heard a man 's voice in the room ! |
26 | Then he heard a noise . |
27 | Then he heard a noise , a metal bin being knocked over . |
28 | And then he heard a rustling sound . |
29 | Then he heard a shout . |
30 | Then he heard a sound behind him . |