Example sentences of "then had [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of Tyneside is at least as old as the middle of the nineteenth century when modern industrial interests combined with local radical politicians to wrest control of the river from the city of Newcastle which until then had exercised a medieval monopoly . |
| 2 | Indeed , it was something of a typically topsy-turvy but none the less gritty performance from Durie , who missed a match point at 5-3 and then had to wait an hour to complete the encounter after rain fell at the end of the ninth game . |
| 3 | He dismissively described how this man had ‘ come in , taken the material provided , and then had written a childish and critical book on the police , out of which he got a Ph.D . ’ |
| 4 | We then had to drive the machine back and unload the rented van . |
| 5 | They then had to hitch a lift back to the cars . |
| 6 | We were given 10 minutes to prepare , then had to give an interview of 2 minutes . |
| 7 | With the help of his father , John built the Nautilus , 38ft long and one of the earliest boats to be driven by a screw propeller , and it outpaced all the steamers which followed the University Boat Race between Putney and Mortlake , which by then had become an annual event in the spring of each year . |
| 8 | Silvia had stuck to her promises for the first couple of days , but then had followed a catalogue of excuses and cancelled lessons that had left Ronni feeling angry and on edge . |
| 9 | Filming stopped the entire unit decamped for lunch , and then had to abandon the scene as the tide had gone out and the puffer dropped from its previous position at the pier . |
| 10 | The more resentful and unforgiving Willie Morgan , was taken to court and then had to terminate a lucrative six year contract after only nine months . |
| 11 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |
| 12 | Then had come the visit from a middle-aged man with a grey face . |
| 13 | Then had come the only question Bess Halidon was ever to ask about the incident . |
| 14 | And then had come the awful perception that Helen too was vulnerable ; he had seen her exposed , humiliated , disappointed . |
| 15 | The eunuch had made a cursory search and then had reported the matter to Prince Narouz . |
| 16 | The client then had to ring a different number . |
| 17 | I then had to have a hysterectomy . |
| 18 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 19 | He graduated from Valdese High School , studied chemistry at Wake-Forest University in North Carolina and then had to face a hard choice between his parents ' wishes that he return to work in the family businesses and his own strong interest in chemistry . |
| 20 | Brian then had to face the full force of the Sutherland-Anderson fact-finding machine on his own . |
| 21 | With both Leith and Sebastian in agreement about the flat , they then had to face the fact that although the inheritance from their grandfather was considerable it was nowhere near enough to buy the flat outright . |
| 22 | Men who were drunk at market were put in these cells till sober , and then had to pay a penny to get out . |
| 23 | A policeman then had to bring the traffic in all three lanes to a standstill while the motorist and his passenger crossed to safety . |
| 24 | Chesarynth washed , stuffed her torn and dirty hospital gown into the recycling chute and stole another , even brushed her hair ( she checked again ; no tower growing through her skull yet ) and then had to find a place to hide the dead leaves and twigs that had cascaded from the tangles . |
| 25 | It had spread over the jungle and then had devoured the marshland . |
| 26 | She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress . |
| 27 | Mr Kerr had stepped in and overpowered the accused , who then had pulled a knife and stabbed him repeatedly . |