Example sentences of "then he [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Then he was swinging out of it , feeling the blood retreat from his head , sensing the ground reach up for his wheels : twisting to see the flag , before he went up and waited his turn to do it over again .
2 Then he was sent off for charging him .
3 Then he was turning back to Jeff and Silvia .
4 Kathleen injected the painkiller , and then he was wheeled off for X-rays .
5 Then he was thrown back across the table , sprawling beneath the lights like an unwilling patient .
6 And then he was going on about how he was gon na get into it and then he , I told him what , it did n't come out or something .
7 so , and then he was going on about the work he 's doing on the
8 Then he was striding off towards the design-room , a subdued and anxious Lisa at his heels .
9 The Lycée was to hold this self-determined spirit for only two years then he was taken on by Balmain , at that time one of the grandest of French designers .
10 Then he was hauling back on the control column and edging in on Woolley as the flight hurtled up in a long recovery from its dive .
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