Example sentences of "he then [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Gregory 's account runs as follows : first Clovis defeated Syagrius ; he then married Chlothild , the daughter of a Burgundian king .
2 Joining the royal curia , he then became knight-deputy to the earl marshal and marshal of the household .
3 He then became registrar at Leeds General Infirmary , before taking up a fellowship at Harvard Medical School , where he did research into organ transplants .
4 He then became professor in Basle , where he remained for the rest of his long life .
5 He then became assistant to George Hughes , chief of the testing department , whom he later succeeded .
6 His apprenticeship was in the Big League , as a trouble-shooting whizz -kid at the Bank of America , and he then became Peat Marwick Mitchell 's youngest-ever partner in 1961 , aged only 30 .
7 He then became kadi of Amasya , then defterdar , then kadi of Damascus in 927–8/1521 , after which " posts diverse of rank " , as Mecdi writes , he returned to teaching , according to Taskopruzade at the Sultan Murad Khan medrese in Bursa , according to Mecdi at the Yildirimhan ( Bayezid I ) medrese in Bursa , and then , according to both , with 70 akce a day at the Sahn , from which he was subsequently removed , dying in retirement with a pension of 80 akce .
8 Which he then sent off-planet , by various well-disguised and roundabout routes , to an unknown recipient .
9 He then requested departure .
10 He then studied chemistry at the City and Guilds of London Institute under F. S. Kipping [ q.v. ] , who became his friend .
11 He then studied medicine in Aberdeen , Edinburgh , and probably Leiden .
12 He then collected cheque books for that account and used them to obtain over £7,000 in cash and property .
13 He then handed business a plum : the majority of seats on each board will be held by business representatives .
14 He then abandoned medicine in favour of the chemical industry .
15 But this list was denied him in other areas and he then used school lists , projecting forward for the people who had left school ; but this had many errors and losses , with people moving home .
16 He then found employment with F. Elmore , an eccentric genius with a novel chemical process and plenty of money to experiment with it .
17 He then gave commodity arbitrations as an example : see 15.6.5 – 7 .
18 He then paid tribute to the Alresford Society , pointing out that when they started pushing for environmental improvements in the 1970s , it was before conservation had come into fashion .
19 He then headed north , taking his eldest son with him .
20 He then resumed work with his father and was partly responsible for the design of the latter 's most notable building , the Grosvenor Hotel at Victoria Station , London ( completed 1862 ) in a rich amalgam of current Victorian styles .
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