Example sentences of "then she [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she noted a curious twitching at the edge of Lady Merchiston 's bloodless lips and an intensity of the creases at the corners of her eyes . |
| 2 | Then she drank a glass of water and felt it trickle slowly down inside her as if she were a pipe . |
| 3 | She said it all , knowing perfectly well none of it was heard , and then she slept a little . |
| 4 | Then she forced a smile , and said , ‘ Of course , Damien : and proffered a cheek , averted as though she was expecting a blow . |
| 5 | Then she forced a carefully neutral expression on to her face , took a couple of very deep , steadying breaths , and left the bedroom . |
| 6 | Then she enjoyed a leisurely forty years with her husband Noel , a former army captain , who died at 103 . |
| 7 | Now and then she lifted an eyeglass up and peered through it for a moment , and , evidently finding it useless at this distance , let it fall again , shaking her head in a frustrated way . |
| 8 | Then she thrust a foot against her husband 's side , saying , ‘ You had your answer , did n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | Then she flirted a little too blatantly and Modi roared off to get drunk . |
| 10 | Then she died a thousand deaths and was born again instantly as at last his lips came down to cover hers . |
| 11 | Then she served a carbonnade of large cubes of beef and triangles of wholemeal bread spread with French mustard , the gravy tasting largely of Guinness . |
| 12 | Until then she led a normal , if restricted , life . |
| 13 | Then she said a little unsteadily , " I would n't ever consider selling my share of the house . |
| 14 | By then she had a terrible headache , but Hyper.0/6. one dose , relieved the headache instantly , the numbness was 50% improved after one minute and completely resolved after 30 minutes . |
| 15 | I ca n't keep on fishing in this bag , she said , and then she had a holy water stoup put up by the door , and filled it with them , you just took some on the way out . |
| 16 | Looking up , she slowly spelt out the faded letters on the broken-off arm of the signpost , and then she had a shock . |
| 17 | Like the woman famed in the bairns ' rhyme , ‘ who lived in a shoe , and had so many children she did not know what to do , ’ Martha in her Boat-house kept so many lodgers — the cooking of meals , making of beds , and washing of linen for such a host made her often remark , ‘ I have so much wark , I dinna know what to do first ; ’ and then she had a husband to work for . |
| 18 | She sat dry-eyed for what felt like hours , then she had a long bath and washed her hair . |
| 19 | Oh , lord , she inwardly groaned ; if this was Vendelin Gajdusek , then she had a rather unhappy feeling that she had made a terrible start ! |
| 20 | and then she had a party |
| 21 | and then she had a complica problem with her line and she was blaming the , blaming the phone . |
| 22 | Me mother used to make loaves and then she had a set of |
| 23 | Then she had an idea . |
| 24 | Then she had an obsession with changing the political map in the guise of union bashing , she also smashed the engineering industry , especially in the North . |
| 25 | Then she had an older one about five and a half so she had four girls . |
| 26 | You get Ann , senile dementia , they had to get the taps off the gas fire because she kept turning it on and off without it being lit again , found wandering in her nightclothes , injustice , and then we found Eileen , who was in an upstairs room , yes she enjoyed that life for about five years , great council house then she had an accident and then because she could n't re-house her , she was a virtual prisoner inside her own home that she 'd made up . |
| 27 | We went to school together , went to the same dances and then she married a soldier during the war . |
| 28 | Then she married an American . |
| 29 | Then she heard a mysterious gurgling noise . |
| 30 | Just then she heard a noise . |