Example sentences of "then [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ V-very good , ’ she managed at last , desperately aware of the way his fingers were creeping from her chin , sliding down lightly to her neck , then on towards her throat — the ghost of a touch , as light and sensual as any touch could be and all the more powerful and disturbing for that . |
| 2 | Sad though his life was from then on until his death in 1864 , his poems — many of them — remained joyful . |
| 3 | And then in for your tea at six and then after you had your tea cattle . |
| 4 | The bawling came to an abrupt end as Thomas frowned first at him and then down at his hand . |
| 5 | I looked around the room , then down at my hand . |
| 6 | sister 's on Christmas Eve , she lives somewhere they 've got this brilliant pub down there called the , Christmas Eve and then over to his mum and dad for Christmas Day , but I , I would n't want to stay here |
| 7 | He shifted awkwardly , and her eyes flew to his lap and then up to his face , wide and slightly startled , like a doe . |
| 8 | She looked at her hands , then up at my face . |
| 9 | I looked at the handset , then up at my father , who was leaning over the rail from the floor above , tucking his pyjama top into his trousers . |
| 10 | She ignored him with difficulty and threaded a length of Size C Tubigrip on to the frame and then up over his ankle . |
| 11 | Artemis said , staring first at the red-faced gentleman and then back at her nanny . |
| 12 | He looked down at his hands and then back at his father . |
| 13 | The soldier looked at my swollen hand and then back at my face . |
| 14 | Holding her shoes in one hand , she ran the other down over her body to one thigh , then back to her head and through her cropped blonde hair . |
| 15 | His gaze went from her face to the forged application form , then back to her face . |
| 16 | With a fatalistic air , her shoulders tiredly slumped , Mrs McMahon glanced at Ellie , then back to her son . |
| 17 | This walk takes you on the coastal path around to Polkerris and then back to your start point on the Saints ' Way — a 35-mile route which crosses Cornwall from Padstow to Fowey . |
| 18 | ‘ How about a spot of dinner tonight — and then back to my place — I 've got a flat at — ’ he named a nearby location . |
| 19 | This large man , ‘ whose countenance was the cast of an ancient statue ’ , says the concluding passage of the Life , tolerated unstimulatedly the hospitality of the silent professors , and wandered through Old Aberdeen looking for a book of poetry , then back to his inn . |
| 20 | It was hard work but we all felt rewarded at the end of the day — not like at Sakata — routine work and then out on your neck . ’ |
| 21 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |