Example sentences of "and then [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexandra climbed carefully up the first side and then leaped from the top on to the grass below . |
| 2 | Zak 's intended scene of investigation into Angelica 's murder had been upstaged by the reality of the Lorrimores ' car and then aborted by the long stop at Thunder Bay . |
| 3 | She slewed her eyes furtively from side to side and then said with awed relish : |
| 4 | He wrote ‘ 14th ’ , looked at his work and then said to me , ‘ I ca n't do the 14th . ’ |
| 5 | Early one pre-Sale morning a stranger silently passed two sorters working in the vestibule , went for a few minutes into the Church , which happened at eh time to be empty of all nut noods , and then said to them as he walked out ‘ You 've made that Church live . ’ |
| 6 | Anyway , I never thought , I just run out the kitchen and got we switched the electric off , and I just got four buckets of water and chucked it on the bed and then said to Rudy , you know what , we have n't got nowhere to sleep now ! |
| 7 | He waited until Dickie had reached the foot of the stairs and then said in a very loud voice , ‘ Who is that fellow ? |
| 8 | He leaned forward as if he meant to kiss her and then said in a low voice , ‘ I 'm going to give you the name of a first-rate lawyer . ’ |
| 9 | Well , it makes a very good tale , only I do n't know if I could remember any of it ’ He beamed on Taliesin , and then said in an aside to Fribble that he had never yet heard of a Tyrian who did n't judge his wine remarkably well . |
| 10 | Eleanor glanced from side to side and then said in a low voice , ‘ It 's all right … what I told you about . ’ |
| 11 | An average ant colony might use around 12 different types of signal , most of them conveyed by means of chemical ‘ pheromones ’ secreted on to the ground by various glands and then sniffed in the air by other ants . |
| 12 | The wood of the planks was almost white , but it had been sanded and then varnished with gums and resins until it glistened . |
| 13 | Hilda Machin looked at her husband 's second wife , raised an eyebrow , and then flopped in her furry slippers down the hall . |
| 14 | He winced at the memory as he hammered on the steel and then looked through the spy port . |
| 15 | She waited quietly , and then looked down the road . |
| 16 | Julia smiled at him and then looked across the round table at Anthony as though to persuade him to get Comfort to behave better , but either he misunderstood her signals or did not care enough , for he sat , watching his sister , laughing at her jokes and joining in her reminiscences . |
| 17 | They sketched their ideas and then looked for clothes to match . |
| 18 | He waved out the match , gazed at it thoughtfully for a moment , dropped it into the ashtray and then looked at Herr Nordern . |
| 19 | ‘ The lady Anne is — ’ She paused , floundered and then looked at him uneasily ‘ — myself . |
| 20 | We cut that section , we stained it and then looked at it under low power and selected out from that block the three most vascular areas . |
| 21 | ‘ Dead , ’ said Floy softly , and then looked at the Trees . |
| 22 | She ran her hand through her hair and then looked at her watch . |
| 23 | Robyn looked down at the black bin-liner in her hands , looked up to where he sat , registered the determined , quietly angry expression on his face and then looked at the fountain . |
| 24 | He says he saw a fish and then looked at his blade and it had a part missing . |
| 25 | She hung on to the towelling and the scissors , and then looked around the dismal room to find a clean surface on which she could put them . |
| 26 | Just , get a bath and then got to bed . |
| 27 | ( It must be remembered it was still another nine years before women were franchised to vote in Government Elections , and then had to be over 30 ) . |
| 28 | She was refused and then had to be taken off duty with bronchitis and exhaustion . |
| 29 | Once J. called her Eggy to her face , and then had to quickly explain that this was a term of admiration , not derision . |
| 30 | However , this was not to be since their drains were either late , abandoned , or non-existent , while promises of building sites were made and then had to be broken because of the absence of drains ! |