Example sentences of "then i [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | And then I had about a a a two mile walk to pit bottom , you see . |
2 | Then I taught in a secondary modern in Hackney , before getting involved in the pioneering days of schools ' drama , touring happily doing plays in schools and inspiring them to do their own . ’ |
3 | Then I landed like a silk bomb by the glasshouse |
4 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
5 | I replied that of course such decisions were entirely his prerogative , then I fell into a musing mood and sought to recall something Rosa had asked me the previous week about English social customs . |
6 | Then I launched into a sort of ‘ Clap-hands here comes Sophie Tucker crossed with a couple of Golden Girls and a dash of every mother of every girl I ever grew up with ’ , live from Carnegie Deli . |
7 | Then I ran into a snag — the newspaper had no printed address . |
8 | ‘ I gave him half an hour and then I went for a spin . ’ |
9 | Then I went for a walk with Mr Sargent . ’ |
10 | I was only there for about three months and then I went to a modelling school . |
11 | Well then I went to a private school on Road , two maiden ladies kept that , and we were taught to er walk properly , sit properly , dance , music , learnt the piano there , and embroider , and erm chiefly the educational side of schooling was almost non-existent . |
12 | That was when I was about fourteen and then I went through a stage of listening to Al Di Meola , people like that , just trying to be a better guitarist . |
13 | Then I went through a stage that was absolutely fantastic , the most beautiful , peaceful , calm feeling that I have ever had . |
14 | So then when I got back to erm er St Giles erm I was there for a month and then I went into a home for the blind and handicapped |
15 | And then I came to a promontory of rock from which I had a view of Geneva , and was shaken . |
16 | Even then I knew in a way that despair underlay my behaviour , but I would n't have been able to take the consequences of its admission . |
17 | First I 'll divulge that I went to Bristol — they 'll know that already if they 're bright enough — then I 'll say I went to this Bed and Breakfast — then I looked for a job … |
18 | And then I got on a G P scheme in Crawley in Sussex and I spent three years there . |
19 | Then I got into a phone-box and made a reverse charges call to Auntie Jean , who was drunk and abusive as usual . |
20 | The importers were n't reliable , and neither were the craftsmen , especially those who persuaded me to pay them in advance Then I got in a financial muddle because I did n't keep my bookkeeping up to date . ’ |
21 | and then I got in a muddle and I was so tired I was , because it 's my eyes you see |
22 | But then I thought on a while and raised my finger . |
23 | Then I thought of a way to cheer them up . |
24 | Then I thought of a way of escaping . |
25 | I used to use a stop watch and then I thought of a better way . |
26 | Then I moved to a different teacher to get some more , you know , experience . |
27 | I listened at length to her story , then I talked for a moment about the unshakeable fact of the resurrection , about the city where God will wipe away every tear . |