Example sentences of "then he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stayed in the flat until Lucy was about two months old then he left again . |
| 2 | He slammed into a wall , his head snapping back to crack against the plaster , then he fell forward . |
| 3 | Then he fell forward , scattering the sheaf of poems across the floor beside him . |
| 4 | Then he fell again and crawled forward , trailing the wire through the grass with the broken peg snickering behind it . |
| 5 | Then he fell forwards . |
| 6 | Then he woke too — quizzing more carefully , |
| 7 | Then he straightened suddenly and returned the paperweight to its place on his desk . |
| 8 | Then he responded brilliantly late on to parry a point-blank shot from the ill-starred Simpson . |
| 9 | He had blushed at the thought and turned quickly away , but as time passed he found that he desperately wanted to share his secret with her ; until then he 'd always confided in her unhesitatingly and it seemed strange that something should now make him hold back . |
| 10 | She 'd never seen anyone so transfixed , but then he 'd never seen a naked woman before . |
| 11 | Werewolf stayed upright , but then he 'd never been as close to him as I had . |
| 12 | They sat in silence for a while , then he looked meaningfully at the whisky bottle . |
| 13 | Then he looked again down the ride . |
| 14 | A log jam at Barashevo , as if this forgotten end of the world was a metropolis of movement and then he looked again at the huddle of prisoners separated from him by two lines of uniformed guards . |
| 15 | Then he looked again . |
| 16 | He looked across the fire at Lennie 's anguished face , and then he looked ashamedly at the flames . |
| 17 | Then he looked away . |
| 18 | His face hardened momentarily , then he looked away . |
| 19 | He looked at her for a minute , then he looked away , over her head , at the front of the court . |
| 20 | Their eyes met for a moment , then he looked away . |
| 21 | Then he looked suspiciously around the car . |
| 22 | Then he looked peacefully up at the white ceiling again . |
| 23 | Then he looked across at her and , though she was silent , still he knew that in his invocation of the ancient powers of Callanish and in his terrible promise , he had done right . |
| 24 | Then he looked across to the far side of the valley , softened by the twilight into a cascade of blue silk ; it was going to be another damp and lousy night of drizzle . |
| 25 | Then he looked across to the corner of the fireplace . |
| 26 | Then he looked specifically at the effect of the results of the three month or si six month cystoscopies , but they did note that only those pa only those patients who had recurrence in the first year went on to progressive stage . |
| 27 | When the prince heard the story , over a conference table littered with notes , despatches and letters , he first opened eyes and mouth wide with shock and disbelief , and cried : ‘ Never say so ! ’ and then as suddenly laughed aloud , crowing : ‘ A judgment ! ’ , looking , for once , a year or so less than his age and capable of mischief ; and then he looked very grave indeed , and sat staring moodily at his table-full of papers , and said , dismayed : ‘ The king will be out of himself with anger . |
| 28 | Then he looked more closely , and exclaimed : ‘ Ruth — I did n't recognise you at first ! ’ |
| 29 | Then he looked suddenly sulky like a child . |
| 30 | He carried on past and found a place to pull off the road , and then he collected together his flashlight and a roll of tools and set off to walk the short distance back . |