Example sentences of "then [vb past] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Desperately , desperately ill ! ’ she said , over her shoulder , then swooped down to the dishwasher , picked up a handful of plates , and marched off towards a cupboard . |
| 2 | In later stages , cottage and craft industries were moved into factories , which then led on to the development of ‘ machinofacture ’ ( mechanised production ) through technological innovation . |
| 3 | I laid the sturdy Ministry of Defence plastic mug on the sand and then hopped round to the front of my tent to bring out my dirty washing . |
| 4 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 5 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 6 | In the end , she threw her pencil across the room in frustration , then paced over to the window . |
| 7 | He drank water from the pitcher , then staggered over to the basin on the table and thrust his head into it , the chill water making him gasp . |
| 8 | He paused for a while to compose himself then staggered down to the porter 's lodge . |
| 9 | He then moved forward to the person on the ground and handcuffed his hands behind his back . |
| 10 | Of that boy being moved , and hidden in the cupboard in the washroom in Belmodes , then moved again to the house in Mouncy Street . |
| 11 | Charsky poured himself a glass of apple juice , then wandered back to the bedroom to finish dressing . |
| 12 | He stared down at the Hoflin farm , then clumped back to the car . |
| 13 | We then cycled uphill to the town of Rosebush with its deserted slate quarries . |
| 14 | Her body was lifted from the coffin and carried through the dusk across the open fields that then came up to the hospital , to Ferry Beach . |
| 15 | Put the boat into the boat-house and made the doors fast , then came up to the house . |
| 16 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |
| 17 | ‘ I read Middle Eastern Languages , and spent a year in Turkey after Oxford , then came back to the Museum . |
| 18 | I had a few words with him , then came back to the shop . ’ |
| 19 | He rose from his chair , walked to the window , looked out , then came back to the table . |
| 20 | How could he make his drawings saleable , he asked angrily — and then came abruptly to the point . |
| 21 | I 'll be as careful as I can , ’ she promised , then hastened back to the dining-room . |
| 22 | I followed the police car back to base and made a short statement about finding Toby , and then drove over to the hospital . |
| 23 | Miller dropped him at the main administration then drove on to the vehicle pool and , he said , some food and shut-eye . |
| 24 | Carrington looked at Talbot and shook his head , then dropped down to the sea-bed in front of the nose cone . |
| 25 | Blake apparently broke one of the cast-iron sections of the frame , creating a space through which he could crawl , and then dropped down to the ground below , a distance of 22 feet , which was broken by the roof of a covered passageway . |
| 26 | I went from group to group apologizing , and then telephoned up to the lady 's room . |
| 27 | He flourished the bloody sword at them in a mocking salute , then trotted back to the road . |
| 28 | He moved around to the back of the house , and then ducked in to the laneway that ran behind it . |
| 29 | He shuddered , then turned back to the boy . |
| 30 | Myeloski nodded , then turned back to the girl . |