Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I locked the Laboratory door , kept all the staff in the main hall , and waited there until Dr. Kerrison arrived . |
| 2 | Then I twisted the film and note together into a paper towel and went out to try to find Bill Baudelaire , reckoning it might be all right to speak to him casually down on ground level since Filmer was n't there to see . |
| 3 | Then I lifted the foot and as I explored further I found a tender area in the superficial flexor . |
| 4 | Then I discovered the Bulgarian women 's choirs , ‘ Le Mystre Des Voix Bulgares ’ — it 's really funny to hear this stuff come screaming out of your subconscious and out through the amplifier … |
| 5 | The till was now 20 deep with impatient customers clutching their coffee pots and blenders — and then I discovered the real bane of the shop assistant 's life : The Haggler . |
| 6 | Then I cooked the breakfast . |
| 7 | I did most of them but then I left the sheet at home , sign that bit . |
| 8 | Then I left the phone off the hook . |
| 9 | Then I left the surveying surveyor civil engineering I went in the black gang . |
| 10 | I felt very wicked taking them to a pawnbroker , and then I sent the money to Giulia . |
| 11 | No , at first it was difficult but then I had the Wilsons to help me . |
| 12 | So I had to look after myself so I I had one and then I had the other one , just stop at two . |
| 13 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 14 | Yeah , so erm cos then I had the argument about putting them back in the box . |
| 15 | Then I ascended the narrow stairs to his doorway . |
| 16 | And then I saw her the next day and and then I realized the and then I came back home and I told her why does n't she see there 's something changed . |
| 17 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 18 | But even then I felt the power , deep down in my bones . |
| 19 | Then I felt the post begin to slide upwards through my hands , as if more of it were coming out of the ground . |
| 20 | By this time I was more than ready to ask Moby what she did , and how much it cost — but then I felt the full-thighed waft of a new female presence . |
| 21 | ’ Then I asked the children to write about some experience they could recall that had something physical about it . |
| 22 | Then I asked the administrator , who was called Lucy ( I was right about The Beatles ) , what the real form was on Sal 's case . |
| 23 | Then I unlocked the main door . |
| 24 | Then I unlocked the door . |
| 25 | Then I heard the growls of support coming from our own side for proposals like Family Credit and the ending of SERPS . |
| 26 | Then I heard the doctor , as he was leaving , say something like ‘ Keep an eye on him … |
| 27 | ‘ I used to hate punk rock , ’ she continued , ‘ and then I heard The Stranglers . |
| 28 | Then I heard the sounds of a desperate struggle , just above my room . |
| 29 | I heard Detchard 's voice , and then I heard the King reply . |
| 30 | I had no time to find out , because just then I heard the noise of the drawbridge coming down . |