Example sentences of "then they [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they signed to Virgin and the Mighty Lemon Drops syndrome struck with a vengeance , ensuring that , up until ‘ Every Beat Of The Heart ’ meandered chartwards , policemen would n't even speak to The Railway Children let alone arrest them . |
| 2 | Then they went to bed again and drank and loved two nights away and then they had a party and then they made a giant salad of mushrooms and tomatoes and sweetcorn and ham and avocado and lettuce and hibernated for a week . |
| 3 | A great dark arch appeared , and then they passed into shadow with the sounds of water glooping as echoes in the high tunnel and the light playing along the sides like silk in the wind . |
| 4 | But then they got into trouble . |
| 5 | He showed her the caving ones first , and then they paused for supper before going back to look at the ones of his son . |
| 6 | When the landlord 's agents and the militia arrived , the tenants offered the whole of next year 's rent in advance if only Mrs. Pedelty would leave them at peace ; it had taken half an hour to get word to her of this offer and to bring back her refusal Then they asked for compensation for the land they had cleared and she sent back to say if they persisted in the claim she would sue for dilapidation and waste . |
| 7 | Then they forgot about characterization and obsessed themselves exclusively with things like line-count , screen-time and close-up allocation . |
| 8 | Then they rose in anger . |
| 9 | Then they sat in silence for some moments . |