Example sentences of "then they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they checked the belongings . |
| 2 | One day then they discovered the old apple orchard , what does that mean ? |
| 3 | just then they saw the lights come hurtling back up the rough track towards them . |
| 4 | Then they saw the door open and Jonathan Ram stood on the threshold , knife raised . |
| 5 | They used it as a football for a bit — until it fell apart , then they saw the blood and got scared . |
| 6 | Then they saw the gun he was clutching down by his side , and they averted their eyes and hurried past . |
| 7 | Then they saw the reason . |
| 8 | But then they tumbled the following year , crashing by 31 per cent when measured against the price of manufactured goods . |
| 9 | And then they carried the remains across the fields to the Lady Kirkyard and that was past the school and I can remember us watching this procession going across the fields . |
| 10 | Then they crossed the bridge and entered Water Meadow , where Master stopped . |
| 11 | And then they blasted the centre out . |
| 12 | Then they pawed the ground like a circus pony , held their arms above their heads and twirled round like a gyroscope , and finally did a bumps-a-daisy only from the front instead of the back . |
| 13 | Michael followed him out and helped pile the waste branches into heaps for burning and then they stacked the scattered lengths of the firewood . |
| 14 | Then they replaced the nonfiction temporarily , as the volumes came to hand , and started on the second half . |
| 15 | And then they learnt the music later on some of them and |
| 16 | Then they heard the front door open . |
| 17 | A jay flew out of a nearby tree , startling them with its clattering wings , and then they heard the unmistakable sound of distant adult voices calling . |
| 18 | Then they heard the back door of the chapel being unlocked . |
| 19 | Then they heard the unexpected faint sound of a train , seemingly working hard , possibly on a short cut-off . |
| 20 | Just then they heard the sound of a heavy fall . |
| 21 | They threw the red Communist flag over the policeman , draped it over his cut and bleeding body , then they left the stadium by a side entrance . |
| 22 | Then they left the building muttering something about justice . |
| 23 | And then they left the then for the the younger birds . |
| 24 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 25 | But then they raised the target to 16 then to 18 and so on . |
| 26 | Then they lifted the wide metal pans of washing on to their heads and set off back to their villages , erect along white lanes , their clothes a bright flash of colour in the green landscape . |
| 27 | Then they had the first ‘ aided ’ flights — that was what they called them then ; the first skips ; some of the disasters , the ships that disappeared . |
| 28 | And then they had the adits coming down from the top . |
| 29 | It was just similar and then they had the little hall then and the farmers women all did it , the big farmers but the women did it . |
| 30 | And then they had the handles and the tassels and then the top there was a tin sort of plate . |