Example sentences of "then her " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then at two or three after midnight , a stack of dishes in the sink promising her a greasy good morning , Martin would feel drunkenly randy and she fought first her tiredness then her ( unreasonable ? ) anger when the next evening was the same . |
| 2 | Then her rolling eye caught the edge of the contact sheet — by her bed all the time . |
| 3 | but then her anger seemed to have woken her and she continued , ‘ I know you went to a lot of trouble over the meal , but my brother 's sexual proclivities are n't any of your business , or mine either . ’ |
| 4 | This was first apparent in The Quest ( 1943 ) where the arabesques danced in many ways became the movement through which Una ( danced by Margot Fonteyn ) expressed the emotions aroused when she is assailed by the four false Knights and then her joy when rescued by St. George . |
| 5 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 6 | Then her husband Jean-Marie went round to Mr Laroche 's house and shot him dead . |
| 7 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
| 8 | And even then her flesh would not give up its alien growth without a struggle . |
| 9 | Then her eyes fell briefly on the painting her grandmother had given her . |
| 10 | Then her married sister arrived at the house with news of her real reason for going each evening to the post office . |
| 11 | Then her original mentor found her a machine to buy . |
| 12 | Her dad died , then her uncle went off with someone else . |
| 13 | Then her fair , tough face appeared on the screen . |
| 14 | She reached down to take off Dot 's shoes , then her socks , one long , one not so long , one greyish white , the other a different kind of fawnish white . |
| 15 | Maybe her arms , then her legs , her hair , her arms , her fingers , her thumbs till there would be nothing left of her for Gloria to find . |
| 16 | And then her poor face melted like a candle into nothing and how I cried at what I had done to make her lose all her features . ’ |
| 17 | She had always taken a long time over her toilet : a review of her clothes ; a long-drawn-out bath ; massage ; manicure ; then her hair and make-up . |
| 18 | Any second now she would be thrown out into the water , then her hand would — |
| 19 | He heard the bolt slide from the attic door , then her tread on the stairs and the muffle of voices as she reached the upper room . |
| 20 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 21 | ‘ With what ? ’ the hag asks drily , and then her face creases into a sly smile . |
| 22 | Then her second child was born and shortly after that her father died . |
| 23 | If , on top of this , her income dries up because of her husband 's death , if she did n't have a paid job and her husband was not insured , then her losses begin to mount up . |
| 24 | Then her status as a functioning person is well and truly threatened and she is bereft of much beside the loss of her husband . |
| 25 | He studied the hand , then her face for a couple of seconds as if mildly amazed that she should wish to touch him . |
| 26 | Then her lower lip started to tremble . |
| 27 | A spokesman for Hampshire police said : ‘ It seems Mrs Soper died and then her husband passed away a short time later . |
| 28 | In the 17 years since then her handicap dropped from 4 to 3 but is now 5 ! |
| 29 | Pet 's shoulders disappeared , then her neck was swallowed up . |
| 30 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |