Example sentences of "then he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he made the small finger-gesture , as among professionals , for ‘ switching clients ’ . |
| 2 | Then he told the astonished controller to call the police and an ambulance — and volunteered to sit with Derek until they arrived . |
| 3 | Then he saw the watchful , ruthless , dissatisfied eyes . |
| 4 | And then he saw the same look of horror on Jimmy 's face as he pulled him roughly back . |
| 5 | Then he saw the broken string of a relic-bag and realised it was Mael-Isu of Deer . |
| 6 | It was then he saw the approaching gendarme . |
| 7 | For a second Sharpe 's heart leapt , thinking that a battalion of Riflemen had arrived , then he saw the yellow crossbelts over the green coats and he knew he was seeing Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar 's force of Nassauers . |
| 8 | Then he saw the glowing tip of someone 's cigarette behind the windshield . |
| 9 | Given his background , he built up a very effective little unit , then he offered the whole thing to us after the Flying Doctor business . |
| 10 | Then he ordered the second charge . |
| 11 | Then he rejoined the other 2 defendants outside the barn . |
| 12 | Then he transferred the same hand to the back pocket of his trousers and did some not very good patting of both flanks . |
| 13 | And then he heard the automatic alarms . |
| 14 | Then he attacked the new belief in collectivism as a political , not an ecclesiastical cry : socialism would produce a ‘ kingdom of Lilliputians , not men ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Then he carried the little girl to the nearest building and rushed inside a flat to shower her with cold water . |
| 16 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 17 | Then he said the old bat needs . |
| 18 | Des was chatting with Macca on football focus in the morning , and then he said the same thing . |
| 19 | Then he said the same . |
| 20 | ‘ And then he had the infernal nerve to write and ask if she was managing all right , ’ he continued bitingly . |
| 21 | Then he had the good fortune to meet Commander D. W. Child RN who had been an intelligence officer in Holland and who Blake had met there . |
| 22 | And then he had the blasted cheek to offer him a coffee , emphasizing his familiarity with the flat , his rights of ownership . |
| 23 | Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds . |
| 24 | Then he took the proffered penny and went inside the pub , leaving me to get on with it . |
| 25 | Then he took the right fork of the track , following it for a hundred yards , and blocked it so that clearing the barricade in a hurry would require a bulldozer . |
| 26 | Then he terrorised the hysterical wives into mutilating their private parts with needles and pins , a court heard yesterday . |
| 27 | Then he knew the complete arrogance of the TOP's. had never occurred to them that anyone would attempt to infiltrate the control room . |
| 28 | Then he recognised the darker mass of the dinghy against the white foam . |
| 29 | Then he noticed the dark eyes , smouldering with hate at him from beneath tangled strands of black hair . |
| 30 | He examined it closer , and it was only then he noticed the faint crack which ran between the edges of the tiles . |