Example sentences of "then [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man did n't need telling twice , and as the boy began to follow him , Connor suddenly remembered : at some time during the evening , when the saloon till ran short of change , he had put in some silver of his own and taken out a fiver — then stuffed it in a pewter tankard on the shelf for safekeeping . |
| 2 | ‘ It was disappointing to play so well at times and then lose it in that one spell . |
| 3 | Copy the formula from your spreadsheet and then paste it into Word for Windows . |
| 4 | Meanwhile her friend walked as far as the bike , then rode it to the point where he met Lorna , who then rode further while he walked … and so on . |
| 5 | That is , when we inform someone by means of language we retrieve a message from our model of reality and by means of the encoding and decoding of language transfer it to the addressee , who then fits it into his own model of reality . |
| 6 | Was she having a sly laugh at his expense , talking nonsense and then cornering him with a sudden question ? |
| 7 | draw round it , dot dot dot , draw even if you then sketch it without using a straight line , if you just join up the dots freehand , |
| 8 | In ways more amenable to women 's visual pleasure , off-beat films which then made it into the mainstream distribution circuit such as Lianna ( Nelson/Renzi ) , Desert Hearts , I 've Heard the Mermaids Singing ( Rozema ) and Percy Adlon 's work with Marianne Sagebrecht in Baghdad Café and Sugar Baby have achieved a degree of success in changing the dynamics of female objectification and sexual fantasy in an entertainment setting . |
| 9 | According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman . |
| 10 | And and then evaluate it from there . |
| 11 | She then stabbed him with a butcher 's knife hidden in the bouquet . |
| 12 | All the forceful tact Aunt Tossie possessed was needed to convince Dada that only champagne , the best champagne , would be appropriate to the occasion , and then to compel him into the stony depths of the cellars to root with Twomey along the half-empty bins where forgotten treasures spoiled . |
| 13 | A third approach is evident in cases which accept in principle extensive review for error of law which flows from Anisminic and O'Reilly , but which then qualify it in varying ways . |
| 14 | ‘ Then judge them by their acts , Magnificence , and do not listen to what they say . ’ |
| 15 | Then turns it to us , away from himself , Max , Peg . |
| 16 | Nor could he have returned to power without the machinations of devoted supporters who worked to foment unrest in Algeria and then to channel it in his favour . |
| 17 | She then draped it with vivid red silk , secured in place with a glue gun . |
| 18 | Eugene Forster paused , raised one of his bushy eyebrows , then slowly and deliberately , with the wisdom of previous experience , finished the whisky , drew one last time on the cigar then plunged it with a hiss into the water , before he took the ‘ phone . |
| 19 | He clawed at the broken wheel that first dragged him across , then pinned him to the road . |
| 20 | After pushing our boats over into the water , we then righted them by putting all our weight on the centreboards where they poked out of the bottom of the boat . |
| 21 | He then asked her for another £46,500 , claiming he needed the money to secure the bonds , and paid that , too , into his account . |
| 22 | He then asked me about my sexual habits , to which I replied that I was heterosexual . |
| 23 | We then asked them to already booked . |
| 24 | He ignored me until forced to ask a professional query , and then asked it of my cap . |
| 25 | He scratched under his bag wig , knocking it askew , then straightened it in a fussy way , all the time fidgeting in his seat as if the bugs were biting there too . |
| 26 | He then led them into the Catherine Palace , once more brandishing his authority whenever an official came forward to stop them . |
| 27 | Another guard frisked him expertly then led him up the steps into the house . |
| 28 | He calmed the animal , quickly inspected it , then led it to a second , checked this animal too for wounds and led it to Wynne-Jones . |
| 29 | Gy François then led us to the village 's chimpanzee sanctuary , a small grass-covered shelter where rice is regularly laid on a few very old-looking chimpanzee skulls . |
| 30 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |