Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wandered down the Rue de la Carbière then I heard the first soul-searing howl : the wolves were back in Paris , hunting for whatever they could find . |
| 2 | And then my erm my mother saw him and then I went to see him and Then I started the last week in July with him after the school closed . |
| 3 | Then I tackled the next dish , which had succulent fat prawns nestling in it . |
| 4 | Cos it , I think it were one pound thirty nine or one pound forty six , something like that not dear , anyway er to buy two and then you get the third one free . |
| 5 | Actually it was only a matter of perhaps fifty seconds before the first convulsive rattle of protest shook his ribs , and then she felt the first thread of breath drawn out long and fine under her coaxing fingers as she sat back from him . |
| 6 | And then we have the third issue which is site selection and here they are at one with the local communities when they say this particular er selected site has been driven by economic consideration and not environmental consideration . |
| 7 | We just do the first thing and then we do the second thing . |
| 8 | Then they had the first ‘ aided ’ flights — that was what they called them then ; the first skips ; some of the disasters , the ships that disappeared . |
| 9 | Then they rounded the last sweeping curve of the driveway and saw the dark bulk of the big house squatting in the near distance , dimly outlined by the fitful moonlight . |
| 10 | to his brain , then they comes the next day , oh no that was it , they , then they , we left it , we left it , we left it , he kept saying we might have to make a decision , erm your dad 's leg deteriorated he 's got no circulation in his legs at all , we 've found a pulse in his left leg but we ca n't find one in his right , he said I think you 're gon na have to make the decision of amputation oh god , anyway comes Monday came off ventilator and of course he could n't talk |
| 11 | Then he ordered the second charge . |
| 12 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 13 | Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds . |
| 14 | Then he noticed the third cup with some dregs of tea remaining in it ! |
| 15 | Then he grabbed the next branch above his head and pulled himself up again . |
| 16 | We walked past three doors , then he opened the next and showed me into the study . |
| 17 | Then he swallowed the last of his drink , shrugged , turned back . |