Example sentences of "then [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man did n't need telling twice , and as the boy began to follow him , Connor suddenly remembered : at some time during the evening , when the saloon till ran short of change , he had put in some silver of his own and taken out a fiver — then stuffed it in a pewter tankard on the shelf for safekeeping . |
| 2 | Meanwhile her friend walked as far as the bike , then rode it to the point where he met Lorna , who then rode further while he walked … and so on . |
| 3 | Springfield made as though to answer , then checked himself with a quick glance in Pam 's direction . |
| 4 | Was she having a sly laugh at his expense , talking nonsense and then cornering him with a sudden question ? |
| 5 | In ways more amenable to women 's visual pleasure , off-beat films which then made it into the mainstream distribution circuit such as Lianna ( Nelson/Renzi ) , Desert Hearts , I 've Heard the Mermaids Singing ( Rozema ) and Percy Adlon 's work with Marianne Sagebrecht in Baghdad Café and Sugar Baby have achieved a degree of success in changing the dynamics of female objectification and sexual fantasy in an entertainment setting . |
| 6 | According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman . |
| 7 | She then stabbed him with a butcher 's knife hidden in the bouquet . |
| 8 | Said ‘ tell me more ’ , then revealed himself as the reviewer of the DOE proposal and only later suggested that we collaborate … |
| 9 | All the forceful tact Aunt Tossie possessed was needed to convince Dada that only champagne , the best champagne , would be appropriate to the occasion , and then to compel him into the stony depths of the cellars to root with Twomey along the half-empty bins where forgotten treasures spoiled . |
| 10 | Eugene Forster paused , raised one of his bushy eyebrows , then slowly and deliberately , with the wisdom of previous experience , finished the whisky , drew one last time on the cigar then plunged it with a hiss into the water , before he took the ‘ phone . |
| 11 | He clawed at the broken wheel that first dragged him across , then pinned him to the road . |
| 12 | He scratched under his bag wig , knocking it askew , then straightened it in a fussy way , all the time fidgeting in his seat as if the bugs were biting there too . |
| 13 | He then led them into the Catherine Palace , once more brandishing his authority whenever an official came forward to stop them . |
| 14 | Another guard frisked him expertly then led him up the steps into the house . |
| 15 | He calmed the animal , quickly inspected it , then led it to a second , checked this animal too for wounds and led it to Wynne-Jones . |
| 16 | Gy François then led us to the village 's chimpanzee sanctuary , a small grass-covered shelter where rice is regularly laid on a few very old-looking chimpanzee skulls . |
| 17 | I understand that any such information is presented by the control computer , which can then convey it to the police officer concerned . |
| 18 | He then passed it through the letterbox and the baby ate her meal on the freezing patio . |
| 19 | Chant dug in his inside pocket and pulled out his wallet , then passed it through the window , letting it drop on the seat beside the driver . |
| 20 | I tucked a ten-dollar bill into the pocket of his jacket , while he tried to wave my arm away , then clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 21 | I refreshed my face and hands with cold water at the basin , then seated myself on a hard-backed chair left near one of the windows to await my tea . |
| 22 | She crossed the carpet and handed him his whisky , then seated herself in the armchair opposite him , smoothing her slim skirt over her knees . |
| 23 | Ponomarev then announced it to the world at an International Conference on Nuclear Physics in Vancouver during August 1977 . |
| 24 | OS/400 : an attendant locks you into the car and then drives you to the store , where you get to watch everyone else buy fillet mignons . |
| 25 | However if a chick is first imprinted on a yellow flashing light , it will then prefer it to a red one . |
| 26 | Walking 's real difficult now , and I have to stop every now and then to steady myself against a wall or a lamppost . |
| 27 | He remembered how Izzy Kleiber had fought and kicked right to the end — until the moment when they lifted him up , then lowered him over the outer wall of the harbour , where the greedy river licked its oily lips and waited , invisible in the darkness below … . |
| 28 | The trooper climbed reluctantly over the handrail and then lowered himself onto the supporting props below . |
| 29 | I took off my rings and jewellery and put them in my handbag then lowered myself over the cliff edge . |
| 30 | She grabbed the chairback , her head thick with drugged sleep , then lowered herself to the floor and sat there cross-legged . |