Example sentences of "then he [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He drank my drink because I said something about all the money he was always flashing around and then he made a dirty crack about … |
2 | And then he made a troubled face . |
3 | Then he made a big concession . |
4 | Then he made the small finger-gesture , as among professionals , for ‘ switching clients ’ . |
5 | It is only late in the day that the weary French King ( Paul Scofield ) gears up his own hostile rhetoric , and then he entrusts the actual campaign to various representatives , the Dauphin , the Constable , Orleans , who cry up only their armour and their horses , and are rhetorically out-ranked even before the battle begins . |
6 | Surely then he becomes the free man , the wandering spirit , the enjoyer of the limitless life ? |
7 | First he went to St Andrew 's in Scotland , then to Rome ; then he engaged in regular trading between England and Scotland for a while ; then he became a professional sailor . |
8 | Then he felt a new movement . |
9 | Then he felt a tiny prick in his arm , and the pain , the faces , the roaring , all began to recede , and he floated away into a warm , restful darkness . |
10 | Then he scratched a shallow nest in the earth and slept . |
11 | Then he told the astonished controller to call the police and an ambulance — and volunteered to sit with Derek until they arrived . |
12 | His first impression was that somebody had started to construct a small harbour , but then he saw a shallow groove cut in the face of the cliff which must at one time have accommodated a pipe , and it occurred to him that it had probably been a sewage outfall . |
13 | Just then he saw a small boat moving out to sea , towards a ship . |
14 | Just then he saw a familiar shape pass the window on its way to the rear door , heard the tap-tapping of high-heeled shoes on the flags outside . |
15 | And then he saw a folded umbrella , pointed into the air , moving into the centre of the chaos . |
16 | Then he saw the watchful , ruthless , dissatisfied eyes . |
17 | Then he saw the broken string of a relic-bag and realised it was Mael-Isu of Deer . |
18 | It was then he saw the approaching gendarme . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Then he saw the glowing tip of someone 's cigarette behind the windshield . |
21 | Then he smiles a slow sad smile . |
22 | Given his background , he built up a very effective little unit , then he offered the whole thing to us after the Flying Doctor business . |
23 | Then he rejoined the other 2 defendants outside the barn . |
24 | Then he heard a long cry … |
25 | Moore listened carefully , and then he heard a strange squeaking noise . |
26 | And then he heard the automatic alarms . |
27 | Then he ran a short foil along part of his original track and broke abruptly northward , almost dead straight . |
28 | Then he attacked the new belief in collectivism as a political , not an ecclesiastical cry : socialism would produce a ‘ kingdom of Lilliputians , not men ’ . |
29 | For a moment his look was piercing , and then he produced a rare smile . |
30 | ‘ Then he carried the little girl to the nearest building and rushed inside a flat to shower her with cold water . |