Example sentences of "then [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said ‘ tell me more ’ , then revealed himself as the reviewer of the DOE proposal and only later suggested that we collaborate … |
| 2 | She crossed the carpet and handed him his whisky , then seated herself in the armchair opposite him , smoothing her slim skirt over her knees . |
| 3 | The trooper climbed reluctantly over the handrail and then lowered himself onto the supporting props below . |
| 4 | I took off my rings and jewellery and put them in my handbag then lowered myself over the cliff edge . |
| 5 | She grabbed the chairback , her head thick with drugged sleep , then lowered herself to the floor and sat there cross-legged . |
| 6 | Loosely linked to it were the emerging environmentalist movements ( the link being forged by a deep suspicion of advanced technology which had raised the spectre of nuclear holocaust and then manifested itself in the devastation inflicted on Vietnam ) . |
| 7 | Re then described himself as the creator and related his names of Khepri at sunrise , Re at noon and Atum at sunset . |
| 8 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
| 9 | The accent then moved itself onto the first syllable ( ‘ ga rrage ’ ) , and now the pronunciation is sometimes changed to ‘ garridge ’ . |
| 10 | The car left the road , smashed through an 8ft garden wall and then buried itself in the house , on a busy corner of a housing estate at Matson in Gloucester . |
| 11 | There is a tradition at Borwick regarding the gallery , that in the days when there was anxiety over Border raids and the beacons were prepared ready for alarm , the women drove the cattle from the fields to the courtyard , which at that time was grassed , and the barmkin ( a grassy enclosure ) , and then stationed themselves on the gallery to spin and watch . |
| 12 | She shivered , then stirred herself in the water . |
| 13 | She then busied herself around the room , the implication quite clear : I was to drink up and get out as quickly as I could . |
| 14 | The boy looked up at the plane , then threw himself to the ground . |
| 15 | They came with their ideals , found idyllic peace in the countryside , where a man could hardly fail to notice God in the quietness ; said their prayers in one of the fairest little parish churches in all the land ; reacted against , and then threw themselves into the orderliness of quasi-monastic life ; and studied what they wanted , and thought about truth . |
| 16 | Some mythic elements seem to be transformations of this cult practice , for example the episode where the young goddess Britomartis leaps into the sea to escape the clutches of Minos , or the contest at Aptera between Muses and Sirens which ended in the defeat of the Sirens , who then threw themselves into the sea . |
| 17 | She began to yell furiously , then threw herself on the ground , red-faced with rage , stamping her feet and screwing up her eyes . |
| 18 | And feeling them , he had stopped swimming , thrown a wordless curse at the sky , then surrendered himself to the black cold beneath the surface of the moat . |
| 19 | The barbarian pulled himself to his feet and slung his treasure bags into a sack that hung from the saddle , then hauled himself onto the beast 's back . |
| 20 | She then concealed herself in the shadows between the two towers , thus to survey the scene and decide on her best approach . |
| 21 | He gave his brother a quick glance , then arranged himself in the most comfortable-looking chair in the room . |
| 22 | The mother 's face crumpled up and withered , then corrected itself to the expression of one who is in the right . |
| 23 | Daak spent a few minutes kicking the remains of the pilot out of the front of the cockpit , and then settled himself into the pilot 's bucket seat and swivelled lazily from side to side , waiting for the women . |
| 24 | She went upstairs to change after luncheon and then took herself to the chair by her bedroom hearth , and said she should want nothing further , all afternoon . |
| 25 | ‘ A Diet Cola if you have it , ’ Bernard replied then eased himself onto the stool beside Rosie . |
| 26 | That evening , she waited until Charlie was in his office and then presented herself in the doorway . |
| 27 | Frederick was exceedingly persistent in his efforts to subdue the Lombard cities ; and cooperation came unnaturally to them ; they were used to fighting among themselves , so that some even then allied themselves with the emperor . |
| 28 | The young CA apprentice travelled from London to Paris and then put himself in the hands of the International Brigades organisation for the final leg of his journey to Spain . |
| 29 | Kosi and Lars exchanged brief looks and then launched themselves after the girl . |
| 30 | Maxim instinctively smiled at him , then despised himself for the silly band-of-brother-soldiers stuff . |