Example sentences of "then they [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's something to do with they 're working this Saturday and then they break up a bit earlier or something . |
| 2 | then they knew when a missile was coming in |
| 3 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 4 | Then they burned down a factory and forty-nine other houses . |
| 5 | And then they slide down the leaf and into the water . |
| 6 | And then they put up a big tent in the Beside the school where you went out for your supper er it was that . |
| 7 | Er they done the broken metal and then they put on the top of it and then they come along with a watering cart and er splashed water on it and then |
| 8 | To the right and a ten by eight to the left and then they went up a grade and they drove up same on both . |
| 9 | And he was shouting back to him , but , and then they went up the stair and they called up the stair and I and I do n't know whether it was an affair , the fella that was screaming but he him a mouthful ! |
| 10 | The studio thinks Vic 's a genius and gave him as much as they could until the insurance boys dug their heels in over big-name leads falling out of a canoe and then they went down the list and found a couple of guys the industry could afford to lose . |
| 11 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 12 | Then they brought in a couple of supporting interrogators and gave me the third degree . |
| 13 | But then they bring up the story of a great uncle who was infected with French ideas and took to drink , and so they insinuate I shall do the same . ’ |
| 14 | So in the first case they 've given him , the first place they 've given him six six six five allowances but then they pull back the total of those three . |
| 15 | I got a right ear'ole bashin' from two o' the ole dears an' then they give out the parcels . |
| 16 | Then they beat up a man of 76 in a failed robbery , Leeds Crown Court heard . |
| 17 | Then they turned out the lights , the great brass chandelier with its false candles , and the moon 's lemony radiance lay as still as cloths draped over the shining wood . |
| 18 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 19 | Then they broke down the door , and poured into the great dining-room . |
| 20 | She had these cryings often , she says complacently , while she was in Jerusalem and Rome , but when she returned to England , they were much less frequent ; then they occurred once a month , once a week , daily , seven or fourteen times a day , and at last ‘ whenever God would send them ’ , in church or in the street — never , apparently , in the privacy of her own home . |
| 21 | Then they plodded round a circular mill , crushing the cider apples . |