Example sentences of "then [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharpe blew the Prince 's whore a kiss , then rode to find a crossroads . |
| 2 | I must explain here that , as neither Nigel nor I had religion , I had arranged the two speakers and then planned to say a few words myself , to thank everyone , in and out of sight . |
| 3 | When the FBI then proposed to kidnap a fugitive US financier , Robert Vesco , from the Bahamas , the Justice Department produced a legal opinion blocking the plan . |
| 4 | ‘ I just do , ’ she started and then stopped to draw a deep breath . |
| 5 | She looked up at the rook 's nest and the grey sky beyond , then bent to pick a clump of white winter aconites to take home to Josh . |
| 6 | We then tried to rent a garage ( long and thin and hence more the shape of a church ! ) but this fell through too . |
| 7 | He said Mr Hawthorne then tried to grab a bowl but Mills , 18 , knocked it out of his hand . |
| 8 | According to the defendants ' version of events , a women had approached Khmara for help , claiming that a man had attacked her ; Khmara and his companions then tried to make a citizen 's arrest on the man , unaware that he was a KGB officer . |
| 9 | Follow the sequence : humans are made in the image of God , given dominion , and then told to follow a vegetarian diet ( Gen. 1:29 ) . |
| 10 | Showing a striker 's awareness , Irvine controlled the ball with his back to goal and then swivelled to send a low , diagonal shot past Woods . |
| 11 | Ben jumped ashore and tied the rowboat up to the small , wooden jetty , then turned to give a hand to Peng Yu-wei who stood there , cradling a sleeping Meg in one arm . |
| 12 | Robins coolly beat Hallworth then turned to watch a flock of blue shirts besiege the linesman to no avail . |
| 13 | The stranger held out her hand with a brief unseeing glance , then turned to resume a conversation . |
| 14 | The Romanov family were marched into the basement of a house then turned to face a dozen executioners jostling in the doorway for room to shoot . |
| 15 | At once , she picked up the gold key from the table , unlocked the little door into the garden , and then began to eat a piece of mushroom . |
| 16 | They then began to play a game which involved tearing pieces off the aircraft and hurtling them at each other . |
| 17 | For six months he was a sub-editor , but then began to write a column for the paper called ‘ By the Way ’ . |
| 18 | I cut down a big tree , and then began to make a long hole in it . |
| 19 | Instead he examined the book containing future reservations , then began to study a pile of accounts . |
| 20 | In 1936 a patient , thought to be suffering from schizophrenia , was found to have abnormal activity in the EEG and then discovered to have a cerebral tumour . |
| 21 | Angered by the incident , Blower demanded a written apology and then threatened to take a writ out against McAvennie . |
| 22 | Mr Onyett said : ‘ Marla Ware then started to produce a series of complaints against me , and my relationship with Erica Wheeler started to deteriorate . |
| 23 | Taff and I watched fascinated as they set up their equipment , then started to dig a slit trench . |
| 24 | The name 's Barn — ’ Harry hesitated , then decided to risk a lie . |
| 25 | Tom then decided to join a club which admits women ( not all of them do ) and snooker has become a shared interest . |
| 26 | I then decided to have a work-out on the weights . |
| 27 | at first tried to compete by introducing its own motor bus services , but then managed to conclude a non-competing agreement with the UndergrounD Group , so a new tramway holding company was set up , in which both would hold shares . |
| 28 | After an exchange of pleasantries , I then proceeded to outline a plan . |
| 29 | He then proceeded to draw a circle of diameter I metre on a flat piece of ground . |
| 30 | Budyko then proceeded to attempt a physio-geographical zonation of the earth and his approach has subsequently been developed by systems in which energy and moisture regimes are related to vegetation types ( e.g. Grigor'yev , 1961 ) , to genetic soil types ( e.g. Gerasimov , 1961 ) and later to geomorphic zonality ( Ye Grishankov , 1973 ) . |