Example sentences of "then we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we spent the evening listening to the music of the young people 's party by the Roman Catholics in their Hall opposite . |
| 2 | " Yes , he had supper here and then we spent the evening playing cards . " |
| 3 | Then we spent five minutes blowing cigar smoke at each other , until Stok said , ‘ Lenin did n't smoke , hated flowers , never had a soft chair in his office , had only the simplest food , liked reading Turgenev and always had his watch fifteen minutes slow . |
| 4 | From then we spent many nights in the air raid shelter . |
| 5 | we had a hundred and twenty , were , were , and a , and a drink and that and then we spent fifteen quid did n't we ? |
| 6 | But then we made a sort of left turn with ‘ Tusk ’ , which dumbfounded a lot of people , not just the record company who obviously wanted the market , but a certain amount of the public who were expecting something that they 'd already labelled and were comfortable with . |
| 7 | Helped him dress , then we made tea and toast . |
| 8 | We made some changes and they worked and then we made some changes that did not work . |
| 9 | • The world 's only ‘ racing ’ car with indicators and door-locks , the TWR-developed Jaguar XJR-15 , may be driveable on public roads even more easily then we thought . |
| 10 | And then we thought what a great idea for a book . |
| 11 | Then we thought it was up and coming but a little quiet . |
| 12 | By then we thought our bluff had succeeded and after another five miles meeting enemy units on the move , we decided that enough was enough . |
| 13 | Then we thought we should nip over the next craggy bit to get a better view . |
| 14 | Jock Bruce-Gardyne and Nigel Lawson quote ‘ a senior member ’ of the committee summing up its conclusion thus : ‘ even then we thought it was going to ruin us ; but also that you ca n't control the march of science ’ . |
| 15 | We did use black paper , but it looked terrible and attracted graffiti , so then we thought of fine art . |
| 16 | ‘ And then we thought , well maybe we can bluff our way through when people start reading into it . ’ |
| 17 | Then we thought of David 's ‘ Death of Marat ’ , because , in my opinion , that painting contains the idea of the artist putting his own life on the line . |
| 18 | Then we thought it might have been something criminal — but Joe is clever enough to steer clear of anything illegal , the last think he needs is investigation by the police . |
| 19 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 20 | They show that " things are happening much more quickly then we thought " , according to Cindy Lee Van Dover , the head of the research team . |
| 21 | Alright they do n't want to go to Chesterfield then we thought they could come here , look after the house , look after the house the same as we 'd look after it , and Val said this |
| 22 | Then we left . |
| 23 | Then we left the Hominid Room and its lifeless fossils and walked together out of the Museum . |
| 24 | Then we left the shop . |
| 25 | She put on a coat , took down her walking cane which hung behind the door and then we left . |
| 26 | Then we left , through the old city gates , skirting its wall as we hastened along alleyways and runnels down to the river quayside at East Watergate . |
| 27 | Then we barricaded ourselves in , piled our mattresses against the cell door . |
| 28 | Then we continued northward , past Yeats ' Drumcliff and Mountbatten 's Classybawn Castle out on its headland . |
| 29 | And then we continued the ‘ love feast ’ by moving into the homes of the villagers , eating sumptuous food , drinking wine and singing songs . |
| 30 | ‘ Harry ’ — impossibly yet further darkness had dawned on the total blackness of George 's conscience — ‘ then we led them to her . |