Example sentences of "then he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , ‘ 'Course I can , ’ an' then 'e starts lookin' at these papers as though I was n't there . |
| 2 | Then he 'd written , Culley . |
| 3 | Then he 'd realized that it was no-one he would recognize . |
| 4 | Then he 'd begun pressing her to marry him . |
| 5 | If it was n't found , then he 'd escaped justice . ’ |
| 6 | Even then he 'd wanted her … |
| 7 | Then he 'd sent McGee to phone the police and the Dean back upstairs to inform the Bishop , who had not joined the kitchen party . |
| 8 | Then he 'd turned her round to admire her . |
| 9 | Then he 'd inherited and blown the lot , only alcoholism and smack-addiction to show for it after eighteen months . |
| 10 | Then he 'd realised he was silhouetted against the light and had leapt away from the glass , his kneecaps tingling . |
| 11 | He 'd gone over the car with a cloth , wiping fingerprints from the steering wheel and the door handles , then he 'd tossed that into the Lancia . |
| 12 | Then he 'd jumped to his feet as if he 'd been bitten by a snake , shouting , ‘ You 're a virgin ! |
| 13 | Never one to wallow in self-pity , he 'd started by mugging a couple of Indian kids in bright shirts behind the bus station and then he 'd followed a Yuppie type from his bank 's Cashcard machine to the stairway of a multi-storey car park , where they 'd had some dealings involving a Rolex and all the wad in the Yuppie 's wallet . |
| 14 | And then he 'd waited there , too ashamed to face other nomes , until the car went back to wherever it came from , and had got off , and was living out the rest of his life quietly and without any fuss . |
| 15 | Until then he 'd denied being the gunman , but today pleaded guilty to the shootting . |
| 16 | Then he 'd kissed her and walked away ; and though she waited until he was out of sight , he had never once looked back to where she stood . |
| 17 | Then he 'd gone into Belfast with the samples and had cracked the car 's exhaust on the ramps outside a police station . |
| 18 | He knew then he 'd got a chance of winning . |
| 19 | Then he 'd got some blankets out of the chests under the bunks at the end of the boat , turned off the torch he 'd found in another cupboard , stretched himself out and gone to sleep . |
| 20 | Then he 'd spied troopies and had trailed ‘ em , but they 'd sussed that . |
| 21 | Clive had given her a lightning tour of the boat as soon as they arrived , but then he 'd disappeared up on deck to start the engine from the cockpit , leaving her to stow the shopping in the ice-box and cupboards and unpack her bag . |
| 22 | Then he 'd driven round to the surgery of Drs Singh and Gupta , with whom he was registered , only to find that both were out on their rounds . |
| 23 | And then he 'd faltered . |
| 24 | He 'd taken a taxi out to Baby Boy 's grave , and then he 'd walked the rest of the way . |
| 25 | Joe had climbed up over the side of the nearest and lowered himself in , rubbish sliding unsteadily beneath him , and then he 'd found his balance and hunkered down and started to sift . |
| 26 | we 'd had the collection and then it was all choruses and then it was oh where were we , he 'd , then he 'd forgotten his glasses , could n't find his glasses , what page were we |
| 27 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 28 | Sometimes she would climax first , sometimes he , and on good nights they would explode together so that they felt the same tingling in the very tips of their toes and even then he 'd had to remember to withdraw — just in case . |
| 29 | And then he 'd had the thrill of actually seeing ( ‘ a life-time 's ambition ’ ) the Flying Scotsman ! |
| 30 | But I I thought then he 'd had a slight stroke so to make him |