Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I met another girl , an art student , who delighted in conversation as I did . |
| 2 | said I 've got to get this one back for her mum or whatever said I 'm in a hurry then I met some guy on the field , talking to him and er |
| 3 | so then I had all Christmas off . |
| 4 | ‘ Then I had chronic asthma and doctors found I was breathless from being so heavy . ’ |
| 5 | And I 'll do mine so I had three sixty and I split it as a ten times thirty six and then I had two times five for that ten okay ca n't go any further there . |
| 6 | we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out . |
| 7 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 8 | and then I had another pint of Yorkshire , but the draught one |
| 9 | Then I had another double , 10lb 8oz , half an hour before daylight . |
| 10 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 11 | Just then I heard distant voices , Silver 's among them , and hid behind a tree . |
| 12 | And then I heard some shouting and I , I looked out of the window , I mean it woke us up ! |
| 13 | Just then I heard light footsteps in the passage . |
| 14 | Yes and then I made that call . |
| 15 | matchsticks together and then I stuck one half on top of the other to make it look like an extending ladder . |
| 16 | And fortunately the end cap was like a , so I went and then I stuck some wadding in just to wire in that head lamp . |
| 17 | Then I noticed that right beside the checkpoint , in fact touching it , there stood a terrace of houses , and that in the front window of one of them stood a Christmas tree , with lights draped along its branches . |
| 18 | Then I saw two men hitting each other , others running , some falling down . |
| 19 | And then I saw another Tedesco . |
| 20 | Then I saw another policeman . |
| 21 | Then I saw another picture : a very old woman ( it was Celia ) searching for the grave of the mother she had abandoned , and coming upon that inscription . |
| 22 | Then I saw another monster . |
| 23 | I looked at lots , and then I saw this fairytale cottage , like something out of Alice In Wonderland . |
| 24 | Then I saw some pictures of these Zamaitis guitars and thought they were such beautiful instruments that I 'd want to try to get one . |
| 25 | Well , then I spotted this encampment of Berbers and thought , God I got ta get outta here … |
| 26 | Then I received another blow . |
| 27 | So I accepted a job with him , and then I got two offers the next day , one with the savings bank , I think it was , and one with someone else . . |
| 28 | Mind you I was I was still on three years in in colours and and then I got nine years reserve to do after that . |
| 29 | It was , of course , hilarious in itself but then I got this bit of smoked salmon ( coloured red of course ! ) and draped it across her upper lip and it looked a bit like a moustache . |
| 30 | No I did n't cos I was on , I used to be on a oil card delivering paraffin oil round the countryside and then cos I used to stink apparently and then I got this job at er on a pushbike |