Example sentences of "then [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I then asked him to comment on the extent to which recommendations to the Senior Management Team contained in the report appeared to have been implemented . |
| 2 | Mr McNally then asked him to indicate to the court any evidence which arose out of the two interviews held yesterday . |
| 3 | After they reached two thousand feet , the instructor showed her how to fly level ; he then encouraged her to experiment with the stick , manoeuvring the plane m every direction . |
| 4 | But the almost mesmeric brilliance of Severiano Ballesteros first of all broke down what had appeared to be insurmountable barriers and then allowed him to charge through the gaps , devastating anything in his path . |
| 5 | John Morgan , her former driver , says Stompie died in Mrs Mandela 's Soweto home , that she led the assault on him and other youths with a sjambok ( rhino hide whip ) and then ordered him to dispose of the body . |
| 6 | Martin had pulled himself up to his feet now and he held on to the back of the chair as he nodded at her , then watched her go towards the door . |
| 7 | It also gave Apple its first opening into the corporate PC market , many companies bought Macintosh systems solely for desktop publishing and then watched them spread throughout the organisation . |
| 8 | They cut its supports , then saw it crash through the floor they were on … and two more … and hit the ground with such a clatter that security men half a mile away alerted police . |
| 9 | The woman busied herself in the kitchen and produced a plate piled high like a cairn with potatoes , and a huge pot of tea , and then resumed her knitting by the fire opposite her husband . |
| 10 | Only then did he return to the newspaper . |
| 11 | To his dismay , she wept and only then did he hear of the plan with which she had gone to Mrs Browning . |
| 12 | ‘ Shit , ’ he said to the empty room , and then left it to chew on the idea . |