Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And then me picking up the keys living here and taking it down the road !
2 Then I take back the paper .
3 I slowed down but even then I locked up the front wheel in one of the fast corners and I fell again .
4 Then I pass back the gun .
5 Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle .
6 At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar .
7 Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’
8 Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure .
9 One man who 's going to stay upstairs has the head of the wardrobe , you go tro I go trotting downstairs you see , and then I climb up the ladder And the ladder remember is over the edge of the sill .
10 Then I lay over a great slab of rock which warmed the water almost to bath-heat .
11 er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't
12 I stop at the drive-in bank then I drive out the highway to the lake to pick up my date .
13 And then I goes up the shute .
14 Then I switched off the music centre and strolled over to the window to take a last look at the night outside .
15 Then I plucked up the courage to start moving around on my own and began walking down a path when the gentleman in grey asked people to stand aside , and I stepped well back .
16 Then I skipped down the entry ladder with indescribable relief .
17 I took all of them , then I phoned up a couple of people I knew .
18 Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me .
19 I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid .
20 Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me .
21 Then I picked up a bit of naan bread and mopped up my curry sauce .
22 Then I picked up the Nescafe tin and prised the lid off .
23 Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was .
24 Then I picked up the lamp torch and held it above my head .
25 Thus at my ease , I ate my tea and then I washed up the dirty crocks .
26 Then I turned out the light and settled at the window amidst the bottle-brush fronds of monkey-puzzle .
27 Then I climbed up the rope myself .
28 I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
29 You can feel the brake and then you pick up the feel of the tyre and it starts moving a little bit .
30 You get mad , sometimes you cry , then you pick up the pieces and get on , because there 's always someone else who needs you . ’
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