Example sentences of "then [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked down miserably , and then wiped them away . |
| 2 | Spat on it , then wiped it again . |
| 3 | Vernage then stabbed him again and Sergeant King was dead on arrival at Hospital . |
| 4 | He told her how much he had missed her while he was away skiing and then asked her simply to marry him . |
| 5 | The waitress added up the modest sum , and then asked them regretfully if they were leaving the district for good . |
| 6 | The Captain filled in the space where Maxwell might have thought he had to apologize , and then asked him quickly : ‘ What did you do in the north of Italy in January ? |
| 7 | He tilted his head to one side , then straightened it again . |
| 8 | Merrill opened it , scanned it quickly , then passed it across to Luke , her heart sinking . |
| 9 | He then met her afterwards and signed a record for her . |
| 10 | Leave it here and then got it here for shopping here . |
| 11 | He then got it there , he then takes that tape and plays another tape he makes a ? |
| 12 | Then laid me gently in bed . |
| 13 | Burun studied the wine flask absently , then laid it aside . |
| 14 | She shook her head ; then jerked it backwards , indicating the scullery , as she added in a much lower tone , ‘ They 're not really my aunt and uncle . |
| 15 | For a moment that bordered on eternity , Fran stared at the throbbing centre of her hand , then snatched it away and scrambled from the car , uncaring what interpretation he put on her haste . |
| 16 | The head moved slowly , taking in the dusky lengths of the wood-ride in both directions , and then fixed them once more with its fierce , terrible stare . |
| 17 | He put his hands together , palm to palm , then drew them slowly apart . |
| 18 | He put one hand over his mouth , then drew it slowly down over his throat onto his chest . |
| 19 | She looked down at it as though it belonged to somebody else , then drew it slowly out . |
| 20 | Bertie kissed it , then drew it aside . |
| 21 | ‘ When that failed I stuffed my right hand down its throat to stop it biting and then smacked it twice between the eyes with my left . ’ |
| 22 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 23 | He took a group of young boys and monitored their play , divided them into three groups and showed each group one of three scenarios and then monitored them again . |
| 24 | just say , you can take a poem home and learn it and then recite at the next lesson and then used it just |
| 25 | He pointed the torch beam at the forest floor , which was littered with pieces of fallen bark , dried leaves and twigs , then moved it slowly towards a hole at the base of a tree trunk . |
| 26 | The Department of Employment reinstated my benefits ( joy ! ) and then stopped them again . |
| 27 | He stared at the paper for a moment then crumpled it angrily into a ball and tossed it into a corner . |
| 28 | ask them for another go , of course she left it till she had the results and then told me so I 'm writing now to the |
| 29 | He hesitated , and then told her frankly that he was interested from a financial point of view . |
| 30 | He held out his bowl for a second helping , then ate it rapidly , spilling some on his robe . |