Example sentences of "then [pron] [adv] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I could n't see anything , er because there was a lot of cloud , and then I just heard this sort of bang , and then it was just silent . |
| 2 | and then I never ate all mine , and the kids never ate all theirs , so I thought well I get the frozen ones and just get one out each time for Tony stick it in the oven half hour before . |
| 3 | " Then I really got cracking and said " We 've got to do something " . " |
| 4 | Then I only borrowed twenty odd thousand cos I got a forty odd percent discount off the price of the house anyway . |
| 5 | And then you just got another pair and you put another pair like that until you had five . |
| 6 | Then you simply made some casual remark about being an errand-boy for Peter . ’ |
| 7 | And so usually at the end of the day you you reversed your procedure and went back to the stalls and took the lines down and cleared up for the butchers and what have you , and then you usually got some meat , or perhaps some vegetables , and various things . |
| 8 | Yeah , but then you still got six wages to pay out , have n't ya . |
| 9 | If you had joined at Paris , then you received a ticket back there ; if , however , you had joined at Marseilles , then you only got fifteen francs to get you down the line from Aubagne . |
| 10 | Then she carefully nicked another hole in her red fishnet stockings and , once on the pavement , readjusted the seams so they were nicely crooked . |
| 11 | Then she pointedly spent several minutes talking to him . |
| 12 | For a few minutes the prisoner enjoyed the game , but then she suddenly felt wet and sat up . |
| 13 | Then she gradually became aware that something was very wrong . |
| 14 | To Julia 's eye she seemed to wear no powder or lipstick , but then she hardly needed any . |
| 15 | I was told to sign three cards and then they just dumped this bag on the counter , and I could see the rope inside . |
| 16 | Then they unaccountably scorned three easy points , when Llanelli 's centres strayed offside , by deciding to tap a penalty . |
| 17 | Then they unaccountably scorned three easy points , when Llanelli 's centres strayed offside , by deciding to tap a penalty . |
| 18 | Then they utterly destroyed all in the city , both men and women , young and old , oxen , sheep , and asses , with the edge of the sword … |
| 19 | Then it just got worse and worse . |
| 20 | Roy Bailey made his Palace debut at the age of just 17 years , but he only became our regular goalkeeper after his spell of National Service had ended early in 1953 , and then it soon became clear that Roy was a goalkeeper of the highest quality , even though he was performing in a Palace side that was almost invariably struggling . |
| 21 | He heard Sammy give an excited bark from the front room and then it immediately sounded muffled . |
| 22 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
| 23 | The first few weeks were okay , but then it really got boring and I just moped about . |
| 24 | He could n't help feeling sorry for the chap , but then he also felt sorry for Liza . |
| 25 | He started playing with my hair and then he just got worse . |
| 26 | But then he quickly grew stronger , and every day told his rescuers how grateful he was . |
| 27 | Then he always made sure that she climaxed before he entered her . |
| 28 | Then he subsequently moved one person from the ground floor onto the first floor , which meant that he did require a fire certificate . |