Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb past] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked round the room , then I looked again at the old man . |
| 2 | Then I looked again at the passenger opposite me . |
| 3 | Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room . |
| 4 | Then I looked closer at the clock . |
| 5 | Then I looked back at the table . |
| 6 | Then I called in at the Vecchio Reccione near Stringfellows for a glass of Valpolicella and a bread stick . |
| 7 | Then she looked around at the men on offer , braying nightclub fools mostly , and decided that , even without racing commitments and pain , she would be planning to leave early . |
| 8 | Then she looked across at the silent lawyer . |
| 9 | And then she looked back at the bed and saw the naked longing in his eyes , and something that was better than desire and that was more enduring than passion broke within her , and she moved forward , and said , ‘ Oh , my dear love ’ |
| 10 | Then she settled down at the dining-room table with her book purchases , which she had picked at random from the shelves of Tollemarche 's only book store and from the racks of one of the cigar stores . |
| 11 | ' I was objecting that , whatever you thought of Reagan , the United States was the archetypal democracy ; Mr Healey was remarking how very few people bothered to vote there at all , only one in five of the eligible voters having been enough to elect Bush ; and then we arrived obliquely at the part played in politics by exhaustion . |
| 12 | They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars . |
| 13 | Then it moved away at a brisk trot , the small and incredibly ugly imp that was perching on its lid watching the scenery with interest . |
| 14 | They sat in silence for a while , then he looked meaningfully at the whisky bottle . |
| 15 | A log jam at Barashevo , as if this forgotten end of the world was a metropolis of movement and then he looked again at the huddle of prisoners separated from him by two lines of uniformed guards . |
| 16 | He looked across the fire at Lennie 's anguished face , and then he looked ashamedly at the flames . |
| 17 | And then he looked up at the front window . |
| 18 | Then he looked up at the Trunchbull , then at the tall stringy cook with her lemon-juice mouth . |
| 19 | Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement . |
| 20 | Then he looked up at the black smoke which came from the Forfarshire 's funnel . |
| 21 | He enjoyed his meal , and then he looked up at the waiter , smiled and said , ‘ I have n't got any money , you know . |
| 22 | Then he looked up at the sky , and saw the plane just before it went behind a cloud on its way to Port au Prince airport . |
| 23 | Then he looked up at the portrait of Sir Humphrey Agnew and smiled . |
| 24 | Then he looked round at the roses climbing the old red walls , the pink and white flowers on the fruit trees , and the birds and the butterflies everywhere . |
| 25 | Then he looked down at the enormous cake . |
| 26 | Then he looked back at the teacher . |
| 27 | Then he looked back at the T'ang , standing there , pouring a second bowl for his father . |
| 28 | Then he looked back at the hole in the ground . |
| 29 | Then he looked specifically at the effect of the results of the three month or si six month cystoscopies , but they did note that only those pa only those patients who had recurrence in the first year went on to progressive stage . |
| 30 | Then he stared down at the floor , gathering together the threads of the day . |