Example sentences of "then [vb past] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first Hunter then lunged forward and grabbed hold of Spike 's chest . |
| 2 | Death rates fell steadily through the 1970s then levelled out and began to rise again in the '80s . |
| 3 | She told Annie that she had to do some shopping , then doubled back and waited . |
| 4 | I then got up and went into another room , where I found the father Delavaud , still clothed , and lying on the bed , dead . |
| 5 | He simply cleared his plate , drank his tea , and then got up and went out of the house . |
| 6 | I then got up and went out and had a cup of coffee and came back , he was still talking . |
| 7 | ‘ It was all so quick — the judges just said they did not want to hear any more arguments , convictions quashed and then got up and walked out ! |
| 8 | He sat still for another half-hour or so , then got up and walked slowly out to the water 's edge . |
| 9 | The man stumbled forward onto the bridge , then got up and trudged on again , wiping his dirtied hands against his thighs as he went and glancing up briefly , fearfully , as the big house loomed over him . |
| 10 | He then got up and left . |
| 11 | Edward appeared to think hard for a few moments and then got up and left the room abruptly . |
| 12 | She placed it within reach of his hand , then got up and began clearing the table . |
| 13 | I lay on my back and watched it for a second , then got up and ran after her as fast as I could , again just because I knew I could n't catch her . |
| 14 | When she was alone on the terrace , she found herself staring fixedly at a cockroach as it scuttled around in the heat , then got up and hammered it to death with her shoe . |
| 15 | He lay there a while longer , unable to relax , then got up and put on his robe . |
| 16 | I looked back at the rabbit , then got up and knelt over it . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course Mikey waited until they went to sleep then got underneath and dug it up , ’ chortles a chap in a Hot Tuna sweatshirt . |
| 18 | I stumbled back and sat down heavily on the plinth , then staggered upright and pulled my cords back up . |
| 19 | Marcus then moved round and sat on the side of the bed near to Patrick 's feet . |
| 20 | They made their money out of sugar and slaves and then moved here and made a fine place of the house . |
| 21 | We then moved on and expanded we expanded we brought with with a minimum of two words to do with each of those twelve words that we generated and we did this in a much faster way a much more creative way a right brain activity . |
| 22 | Doone made as if to go after him , then stopped indecisively and came back . |
| 23 | He straightened , then bent forward and tapped at the white plastic strip on the kitchen window ledge which retained the cheaply horrid secondary double-glazing the flat 's owners had fitted . |
| 24 | After a while , of course , the woebegone aspect of the crossed-in-love becomes very irritating , especially if one is being unjustly blamed for it , so Lydia ripped out the last of the fluff that formed , as it were , the bird 's underclothes , rose to her feet gripping her pheasant by its knees , and then bent over and kissed Beuno . |
| 25 | The T'ang turned , then bent down and retrieved the book , finding himself strangely reassured by its familiarity . |
| 26 | She gave a little cackle and then bent down and began locking the french windows . |
| 27 | Pushing up his sleeves over the elbow , he swilled cold water over his hands and arms , then bent down and sluiced the whole of his head . |
| 28 | The finished case is thrown upon the floor ; the long narrow strip which is to form the frame of the drawer is laid upon the bright strip of ready-pasted paper , then bent together and joined by an overlapping bit of paper ; the edges of paper below are bent flat , the ready-cut bottom is dropped in and pressed down and before the fingers are withdrawn they fold over the upper edges of the paper inside the top . |
| 29 | It was slightly damp not in patches but all over as if it had been soaked in water then wrung out and left to dry through the night . |
| 30 | A few minutes later they had acknowledged Mr Bryant and his daughter outside their house , and then trudged home and stood chatting for some time on the doorstep . |