Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I have practised yoga for many years , but then I met a Jesuit priest who had been sent to the Far East by the Catholic Church to experience the Buddhist way and see how it might relate to Catholic worship . |
| 2 | The till was now 20 deep with impatient customers clutching their coffee pots and blenders — and then I discovered the real bane of the shop assistant 's life : The Haggler . |
| 3 | Then I discovered the Bulgarian women 's choirs , ‘ Le Mystre Des Voix Bulgares ’ — it 's really funny to hear this stuff come screaming out of your subconscious and out through the amplifier … |
| 4 | Then I left the surveying surveyor civil engineering I went in the black gang . |
| 5 | Hugh says : ‘ I felt very proud and fertile at first , but then I had a terrible sweaty hot night thinking about the responsibility . |
| 6 | So , in the example you 're referring to , I had like a title and then I had a sub-title and further details and another sub- title and further details , and then I had a total line |
| 7 | Then I had a blooming fall . |
| 8 | Then I had a bright idea — why not go home to see if any more rubbish was available . |
| 9 | So I had to look after myself so I I had one and then I had the other one , just stop at two . |
| 10 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 11 | Then I ascended the narrow stairs to his doorway . |
| 12 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 13 | then I felt a real twit , cos a man came up and I said I think something 's gone wrong with the auto bank machine , says I , it wo n't give me any money because it 's , it 's coming up there 's an error , so he said well I 'll try and see , he says , he put in exactly the same card as me , he had the Midland card , put it in , got his money |
| 14 | Then I administered a little ouzo and we began to talk about Ivy . |
| 15 | Then I unlocked the main door . |
| 16 | Then I heard a new sound : a thin wail more certain than the birds , coming from inside the house , balancing between the shuffling draughts . |
| 17 | Then I heard the front door close and the sound of his car going down the road . |
| 18 | Then I made a fist-sized roll of the rest and shoved it into my deepest pocket . |
| 19 | Then I took a deep breath . |
| 20 | Then I took a deep breath . |
| 21 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 22 | When we got back from Majorca , I was sent to another school for a year , and then I took the so-called eleven-plus examination . |
| 23 | Then I commenced a tremulous search through its pages , almost as if I expected to find details of a timeslip between Geneva and where I now was . |
| 24 | It was then I noticed a small cut on his forearm , at least it looked small until it opened up and I realised it went all the way through all the underlying muscles . |
| 25 | I did quite a lot on that single bed machine , even intarsia and then I saw a double bed advertised for £15 . |
| 26 | Then I saw a light aircraft orbiting overhead and started waving to it , but he disappeared and I did n't know if he 'd seen me . |
| 27 | Then I saw the spare figure of Captain Robins walking towards me , bag in hand : even on land after such a short voyage he had the kind of rolling gait that proclaimed him a man of the sea . |
| 28 | Then I saw the small monster too . |
| 29 | I figured I must be the only fool who was trying to start something ; I was trying to get that big BB King sound and then I saw The Fabulous Thunderbirds , with Jimmie Vaughan on guitar . |
| 30 | And then I saw The Real McCoy that was the last one I think . |