Example sentences of "then they [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they returned to the destroyer . |
| 2 | Nothing much doing at the pond , they had set the rods up and were wandering around , looking for frogs and newts , then they returned to their rods ; nothing stirred , so around 10pm they decided to call it a day . |
| 3 | And then they returned to Rocamar , to their castle of dreams . |
| 4 | First she was on her own with Rose and some of the women , then they sent for the midwife , who did n't turn up , and only after that did they think to come for me . |
| 5 | Then they lay on the ground like two dead trees . |
| 6 | Then they lay like the spokes of a wheel around it and heard the sound of the river and the night fowl before drifting off to sleep . |
| 7 | Then they soared into the sky as one , to make flight north as a pair along the coast to Wrath . |
| 8 | Then they fell into each other 's arms . |
| 9 | Then they wrote on a piece of paper : For Mrs Ransome for her birthday , with our love , and put it inside the box . |
| 10 | Tenements were noisy and smelly , and then they left for New England . |
| 11 | Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath . |
| 12 | Then they looked at one another for a second and kissed passionately . |
| 13 | They looked at the rubbish , then they looked at each other . |
| 14 | Then they looked at each other . |
| 15 | Then they looked at each other and a silent flash of understanding passed between them . |
| 16 | Then they looked like new again . |
| 17 | look round the front room , then they looked round the , the garden . |
| 18 | Then they signed to Virgin and the Mighty Lemon Drops syndrome struck with a vengeance , ensuring that , up until ‘ Every Beat Of The Heart ’ meandered chartwards , policemen would n't even speak to The Railway Children let alone arrest them . |
| 19 | Then they went on their way , still enjoying the joke . |
| 20 | And they start on a Monday and they had it finished by Tuesday and then they start on Wednesday and Thursday and and then they went on Friday and Saturday . |
| 21 | Then they went to bed again and drank and loved two nights away and then they had a party and then they made a giant salad of mushrooms and tomatoes and sweetcorn and ham and avocado and lettuce and hibernated for a week . |
| 22 | Then they went to New York , and you feel it there the presence of many intellectual people . |
| 23 | And erm Joseph and Mary they went to Egypt or somewhere , yeah Egypt , and when they went erm and I think the angels called them to go cos they came to Egypt as well and then they went to . |
| 24 | Okay , so they got the base line measurement , thirty five percent people use them , then they went to a variable ratio er token economy system . |
| 25 | And then they went to the different islands and I remember this for when we were at the hotel me brother and me went across , well me was on it too we were all young then . |
| 26 | These three just come and then they went to Wales . |
| 27 | to see them at the Dinosaurs Alive and then they went to the museum . |
| 28 | And then they went to Harwich . |
| 29 | and there was a little Triumph Herald sign on that , bolted through , that was to cover the weld look , and that was smashing and then they went through all this welding job and I , when he lifted the bonnet up the engineer had a look at it , I said , oh I said is this bolted on ? |
| 30 | Then they went into another tank of clean water and from there into an oven to dry . |