Example sentences of "then [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that day , the news began to spread that the Headmistress had recovered from her fainting-fit and had then marched out of the school building tight-lipped and white in the face . |
| 2 | This man , eager to draw first blood , swerved as he neared Sharpe , then leaned out of his saddle to give a gut-slicing sweep with the glittering blade . |
| 3 | I think it 's wrong to underestimate erm i i it 's particularly initially , how , how positively reinforced it can , it can be around you erm , just this the idea of losing weight and that er you know , people will be wha , for whatever reasons are , either envious or they want to know how you can do it , they want to know , and particularly if it 's linked with exercise then it 's all very good things to do and you know , the media 's telling you and a , everyone 's telling that this healthy lifestyle that actually then goes out of control through being so controlled erm e e , there 's a , well there 's a thin line between it , being a very positive experience , and you 're suddenly buying smaller jeans and erm you know , it 's just everything is is feeding , if that 's the right word , this idea that it , that that it 's tremendous to be |
| 4 | Actors David Suchet ( Poirot ) and Hugh Lattimer ( Hastings ) were filmed deep in conference inside their Pullman coach ‘ Finall ’ and then stepping out of the coach and then being driven away from Horsted Keynes Station — renamed for the day — by vintage car . |
| 5 | She tucked the precious card under her pillow and then got out of her cot to get dressed . |
| 6 | It sailed in a great arc , hung poised for a fraction of a second , then plunged out of sight to the sea . |
| 7 | He then scorched out of the gate , almost crashing his already scratched BMW . |
| 8 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 9 | For no reason that is known , he then dropped out of the shukokai world , apparently disillusioned . |
| 10 | Mrs Frizzell drank her coffee quickly , then scrambled out of bed and proceeded a little unsteadily to the kitchen , her cotton nightgown drooping despondent–y round her . |
| 11 | Naturally it results in acrobatics , with Frank driving through a tent — in which two people are sleeping — and speeding through a hay loft , leaping fifty feet through the air , crashing into a pond , then driving out of the water after being submerged . |
| 12 | I made sure I had sufficient pellets in my jacket pockets , then headed out of the house for the Rabbit Grounds on the mainland , between the large branch of the creek and the town dump . |
| 13 | He then moved out of Paris and lived in villages near the river Seine to the west of Paris — Louveciennes , Marly-le-Roi , and Sèvres — but in 1880 he returned to the area south-east of the forest of Fontainebleau , where he had first painted during the 1860s , and lived in a series of villages near the confluence of the rivers Loing and Seine — Veneux-Nadon , Les Sablons , and Moret-sur-Loing . |
| 14 | But Nathan Bryce had only to look at her for her heart to skip a beat , then race out of control . |
| 15 | They both got dressed , quickly and silently , and then tiptoed out of the bedroom and down the white painted wooden staircase . |
| 16 | He turned around and spoke into the room behind him , then moved out of sight . |
| 17 | She wrenched open the door behind her , ran through it , slammed it shut behind her , then dashed out of the house . |
| 18 | It then accelerated out of the pack and passed the finishing post placing full weight on the fractured leg in a perfect gallop gait . |
| 19 | Based on the seven days of creation there are seven days to a week and the Hebrew calendar is then made up of a cycle of seven years ( each seventh year being the Sabbatical year ) and seven cycles of seven years ( with each fiftieth year being a year of Jubilee ) . |
| 20 | Our original vector is then made up of these constituent vectors just as our quantum mechanical states were composed of combinations of other states . |
| 21 | A complete gene is then made up of a whole series of exons , which are actually strung together only when they are eventually read by the ‘ official ’ operating system that translates them into proteins . |
| 22 | There , he was able to lift himself on to his crutch again and then climb out of the stockade . |
| 23 | The route then climbs out of the Severn Valley and goes across country to Heightlington . |
| 24 | The food is then pushed out of its protective package and left in its serving dish to be cooked in a hot-air oven . |
| 25 | The chasm then closes up of its own accord . |
| 26 | This is to counter the transfer of assets through a newly acquired ‘ surplus ACT ’ company under the no gain/no loss rule in s 171 , TCGA 1992 , which are then sold out of that company , thus eliminating or reducing the taxable gain ( s 245B ) . |
| 27 | Bevir 's habit was to roam with a cloud of verbiage and then pop out of his hole with a startling suggestion , almost as quickly popping back . |
| 28 | He let the Colonel go , then ducked out of the tavern door into the street . |
| 29 | He kissed her on the forehead , then climbed out of the car and walked round to the other side . |
| 30 | He grabbed a large plastic cylinder filled with flares and other survival gear then climbed out of the hatch . |