Example sentences of "then she [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 The night was still young , so whoever the female was who worked peculiar hours , or whatever the reason was that he could n't have seen her earlier — and by then Fabia was certain that ‘ someone he had to see ’ would be female — then she hoped he had a truly lovely time !
2 Then she hopes I got a woman who will work , she says the young ones do n't clean proper nowadays .
3 It was only then she realised she 'd been holding her breath .
4 For a moment her heart caught in her throat , but then she realised he had brief , dark swimming-trunks on .
5 Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise .
6 Then she realized she 'd forgotten to kneel down when she came in , and blushing , sank to her knees .
7 Then she realized she did n't have to pretend to be anyone going anywhere when she already was herself going for a real drive in a car with two dogs beside her and fresh flowers behind .
8 And she were doing it full-time and then she went she had children and then she went part-time .
9 She said she had n't been for a while and erm then she said they did n't really know , they wondered how she was gon na get on in the water .
10 We talked for a while about the hunt — she wanted to know how much meat we 'd eaten , what the men had talked about — and then she said she had to go and graze the cows .
11 Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her .
12 Then she said she said to me erm so what teacher have you got ?
13 ‘ Yes , but she denied it , and then she said she did n't know why he was making such a fuss because it was n't his child anyway .
14 And the tyre was going down then she said I did n't do that !
15 First of all Mum thought I was anorexic and then she thought I 'd got thyroid trouble .
16 Then she noticed we had a child with us in a pushchair .
17 Then she knew she 'd won .
18 Then she asked what had happened to Alec , because nobody had told her , and I just looked at a spot about a foot above her head and let Frank do the dirty work .
19 Then she discovered he 'd gone off any idea of tucking into the delights of her home-made lasagne anyway as , without another word , he turned and headed out of the kitchen .
20 Then she decided she 'd imagined his tension .
21 His eyes widened in surprise , and then she found herself pulled hard into the wall of his chest , his arms wrapped tight around her .
22 And then she remembered what had happened to Alice and he did n't seem nice any more , just big and handsome and rather frightening , standing there in his tight jeans and his bright shirt , looking at her .
23 Then she remembered she had n't paid him .
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