Example sentences of "and then he [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And suddenly he remembered standing here , it was dark-green all around him , but the sky above was blue , the sun must 've been setting , it was quiet , just the creak of a tree , the whir of an insect 's wing , he 'd been standing motionless , as if in a trance , and then he heard a voice , his mother 's voice . |
| 2 | And then he heard a voice . |
| 3 | And then he heard a rustling sound . |
| 4 | And then he heard a sound he recognized . |
| 5 | He was educated at Lincoln until his mother 's death in 1845 and then he attended a boarding-school in Kibworth , Leicestershire ( 1845–6 ) . |
| 6 | Giant-fiend of a hundred hands , with a shower of arrowy death-pangs he transpierced me , and then he became a wolf , and lay a-gnawing at my bones ! |
| 7 | Boy smiled , and then winced slightly , because his lower lip was split , and then he took a sip of his beer and he smiled sweetly and said , In love . |
| 8 | Forester returned the billspike to the kitchen drawer and the receipts and guarantees to the gun case , and then he took a screwdriver from his canvas roll and unscrewed the cut end of the doorchain from the frame and slipped it into his pocket . |
| 9 | And then he took a step toward her , the dead flashlight still in his hand , and he said , ‘ I 'm sorry , you gave me a scare . |
| 10 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 11 | The first was the traditional Hobday and then he had a tie-back . |
| 12 | And then he had a job , they had a job for him you know , and of course I he did n't want to leave me , Well I said , You can go , I said , it 's alright if I 'm going to sell , I said , that would be alright . |
| 13 | And then he got a job in Tesco 's and stacked turkeys ? |
| 14 | And then he saw a face he recognized . |
| 15 | And then he takes a day off Bank Holidays . |
| 16 | Every now and then he lifted a finger off the wheel and pointed out some famous bridge or statue or museum . |
| 17 | Well , every now and then he has a bit . |
| 18 | Cos sometimes you see him a lot , and then he has a spell of not coming in do n't |
| 19 | and then he has a sleep for half an hour |
| 20 | And then he has a study that has a similar wall of reference set of shelves and then I guess that maybe his bedroom has of this , but it 's erm and such a nice guy , a pleasant kind of man . |
| 21 | Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help . |
| 22 | She imagined he was going to make a move towards her , but what he did was to hitch the child closer to him until his face was almost pressed against his own and then he smiled a smile that widened his full lips but , as she had seen before , did not separate his teeth . |
| 23 | And then he bought a computer to use in the house , nowhere else like , s it was still his house was his kingdom . |
| 24 | We talked about London and working in London , which was genial enough as the wine was poured , and then he put a spin on it . |
| 25 | I might have guessed , ’ and then he uttered a string of oaths , so oddly at variance with his usual smooth and civilised manner and appearance that Sally-Anne shivered and tried again to pull away from him , but he held her more tightly than ever . |
| 26 | And then he makes a value judgement . |