Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [adv] [conj] then " in BNC.

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1 She squints at me again and then looks round the shop for summat .
2 ‘ I can only do it when we 're in the middle of a conversation and you look at me speculatively and then say something anodyne in a voice that is so deliberately empty of judgment I can practically feel the strength of will you are exerting to keep it so , ’ said David with the hint of a laugh in his deep voice .
3 She looked at me slyly and then sighed .
4 He looked at me warily and then nodded .
5 I think what you and I ought to do is sit down we ought to list the pros and cons and problems of and look at them afresh and then maybe talk to Tom anyway .
6 For a second he looked at her intently and then walked over to stand and search her face with dark eyes .
7 He looked at her keenly and then stood up .
8 Glancing up at her uneasily and then back to the document in front of him he read that Nora Elizabeth Fanshawe , by profession a teacher , had been born in London in 1945 , had black hair , brown eyes and was five feet nine inches tall with no distinguishing marks .
9 Mahmoud looked at him intently and then suddenly relaxed .
10 She looked at him quickly and then stared out of the window .
11 I looked at it vaguely and then with more attention , remembering the thing that had sung past my ear .
12 But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave .
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