Example sentences of "then his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gillian offered Ray a pack of Marlboro Lights ; he released her hand , took one and lit her cigarette , then his . |
| 2 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 3 | Then his face fell . |
| 4 | It is often at these times that the glider becomes stalled without the pilot noticing , and then his instincts are bound to be automatic as the nose and wing drops . |
| 5 | Young Donald leaned his long-barrelled small-shot gun in the corner by the door and then his face darkened over . |
| 6 | Sometimes they were a little lifeless , not with lethargy or simple weariness ( they could be that , but then his whole body-language ‘ drooped ’ accordingly ) , but with a specific withdrawn quality which , when taken with a certain passivity of the face , can be hard and unyielding : betokening a concern — even a resentment — in being examined in that particular way . |
| 7 | Then his eye chanced on a sheet headed ‘ The Sparrows ’ . |
| 8 | And then his grandfather died , and Leonard was faced with other traumas : his mother 's remarriage and its unhappy dissolution . |
| 9 | In one form of the myth he was killed and dismembered , but then his head floated . |
| 10 | From then his career was hard graft : succeeding Brian Sellers as Yorkshire 's captain he had to rebuild the side which , although talented , never managed more than a shared title ; he won his England place on merit before succeeding Wally Hammond as captain when he had to face Don Bradman 's Australia . |
| 11 | Then his horses contracted a virus . |
| 12 | His depressions , then his elations , his cursing , and his generosity . |
| 13 | We do not know what Eric Abbott said but he was Ramsey 's second superior at Lincoln Theological College and then his best man at the wedding . |
| 14 | Charlie Chaplin lies down , his body disappears from view , then his head . |
| 15 | His hand felt rigid , and then his thumb moved delicately . |
| 16 | Then his son , Sam , weighed 2 lb . |
| 17 | In due course the parents are relieved when he begins to ‘ miss ’ his two o'clock and then his six o'clock feeds . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps — , then his face changed . |
| 19 | Then his father was off on another tack . |
| 20 | By then his eyes and hands were swelling , he was feeling nauseous and could not lie down at night because of the pain in his back . |
| 21 | By then his eyes and hands were swelling , he was feeling nauseous and could not lie down at night because of the pain in his back . |
| 22 | But he must worry that if his wife does not succeed in the party elections scheduled for March , then his own authority will be badly diminished . |
| 23 | Since then his disenchantment with the West appears to have grown . |
| 24 | Since then his authority has ebbed alarmingly anyway . |
| 25 | His Dad would be back from work soon , then his Mum . |
| 26 | Then his feet were on the stairs and he was walking down the narrow , dark steps , which twisted sharply to the right . |
| 27 | Then his common sense took over . |
| 28 | However fine the grave is for Sarah , if it is not his , then his status will not change at all . |
| 29 | Then his smile became a sheepish grin and his shoulders hunched in a giggle . |
| 30 | He remembered the exultation of that dazzle , and then the disappointment , and then the despair , and then his own voice gabbling numbers , and then the oblivion . |