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

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1 He then expanded at some length on this theme .
2 He then shuffled around the room cupping his hand around the chimneys and blowing out one lamp after another .
3 He then lived in Pagewood , Paley and Pugin Streets until he moved to Old Bidston Road to work for Cammell Laird as a French polisher .
4 He later confessed to having taken part in the theft of a quantity of goods including hi-fi equipment , a television , a leather jacket and a carriage clock , totalling value of £1,222 , from the bedsit next door to the one which he then shared with a fridge at Spitalhatch , Alton .
5 Five minutes had now passed since the capture , and Ulysse left the site with the upper half of the monkey , which he then shared with Brutus .
6 He then laughed as the media momentarily gasped .
7 Under the name of J. J. Marric he then produced from 1955 onwards a series of books written round a police officer by the name of Gideon .
8 Having attained a First Class degree in History in 1935 , he then determined upon a doctorate , which he completed in 1938 .
9 He then left for New York , to complain to the United Nations of ’ Pakistani military aggression ’ .
10 He then applied for a mandamus directed to the visitor to hear an appeal on the grounds that the earlier appeal to the visitor had been no true appeal at all .
11 He then fell into the water , paralysed from the waist down .
12 He then drove to Namur in Belgium , where he changed cab units after a breakdown .
13 He then drove to the office of a friend who was an architect , and within minutes had persuaded him to come and examine the job to be done on the house .
14 The prosecution allege he then drove to Catterick Bridge and was sexually frustrated when he saw Mrs Chandler at about 10.45am .
15 He then launched into one of his ruminative orations , reflecting on the evolution of our relations with India , hardly engaging with the Government at all , but indirectly committing himself to full support for the movement towards self-government .
16 He then served on the Frontier in the Mohmand Campaign with 5 Field Company .
17 He then served on committees to set up a republican government and abolish kingship and the House of Lords .
18 He then served for nearly two years as permanent secretary of the Ministry of Aircraft Production ( 1943–5 ) .
19 He then served for three years as Secretary General of the Islamic Conference Organization .
20 He then served as a captain in the 2nd Devonshire Regiment .
21 Engaged in the reform of the Board of Trade in 1668 , he then served as a commissioner for trade between 1668 and 1672 .
22 He then served in the Channel .
23 He then embarked on the serious biographies which made his name .
24 He then embarked on a long tirade about the tactics we should adopt for a forthcoming game with an Army side .
25 He then reminisced about a house-party at which someone had suggested that Mr Eliot ( who did not go to many such parties ) should be invited to read some of his poems .
26 No wonder he then passed with very high marks .
27 He then strode into the living-room .
28 He then specialised in sports photography , becoming a director of The Image Bank , Italy , in 1978 .
29 He then asked for an adjournment of the conference if agreement was not possible .
30 He then asked for a drink of water .
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