Example sentences of "then [adv prt] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sad though his life was from then on until his death in 1864 , his poems — many of them — remained joyful . |
| 2 | The bawling came to an abrupt end as Thomas frowned first at him and then down at his hand . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | He shifted awkwardly , and her eyes flew to his lap and then up to his face , wide and slightly startled , like a doe . |
| 5 | She ignored him with difficulty and threaded a length of Size C Tubigrip on to the frame and then up over his ankle . |
| 6 | He looked down at his hands and then back at his father . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |