Example sentences of "then [vb past] [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | Hardly able to hold the putter , he then knocked it three feet past ! ’ |
2 | He then knocked it three feet past ! |
3 | It arrived at the sixth , where he drove into the lake , picked out his ball under penalty , then hit it 260 yards with his 1-iron straight into the hole . |
4 | Werewolf placed one of the paint pistols in my belt holster , then offered me one of the pennants . |
5 | But when one of the little blue aliens made some John Travolta-style dance moves , indulged in a comic face-pulling session with Walken , then gave him five , that 's when the film lost them . |
6 | Taking a firm hold of two of the upright bars , he shook the gate vigorously , then gave it one last sharp forward thrust . |
7 | Etienne Saqr , who used the name Abu Arz , the Father of the Cedars ’ — one of the more psychopathic of the minor Christian militia leaders — commanded a group which specialised in cruelty , whose men tied Palestinian prisoners to the backs of taxis and then dragged them 12 miles up the motorway to Jounieh . |
8 | His passenger helped pull him out and then carried him two miles away across fields from the accident scene . |
9 | ‘ But if they only looked at me coldly , and whispered behind their hands about me , and then left me one by one ? ’ |
10 | Cleveland councillors agreed to try to improve relations with British Rail and then criticised it five minutes later . |