Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb past] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I screamed and screamed , and could not stop . |
| 2 | Then I skidded and slanted through into Public Baths Surf . |
| 3 | Then I fell and banged my knee-cap on a stone and it 's pretty stiff now . |
| 4 | Then I fainted and fell to the floor . |
| 5 | I wanted to make sure they were long enough , and I went and started at Christmas , and I , er , this is so gross , and I just felt the scummiest thing , it was sort of , it 's not exactly how you wan na feel just before you get married , and then I went and had my legs shaved er waxed . |
| 6 | ‘ Spewed me ring up all night , then I went and rode me bike into that mooring rope over there , ’ he indicated further up the dock . |
| 7 | And then I went and showed her all forms , all these form things that they 've got I were letting her read it . |
| 8 | I listened to her and the sisters and then I went and picked up Orlando from school . |
| 9 | worried about them being so far as they 've the only child , and talked them into come down and live with us , so then I applied and got a move to just after it was built , which was a four bedroom house . |
| 10 | Then I laughed and explained that he meant ‘ Frankly speaking ’ . |
| 11 | Then I washed and dried the two beer-mugs and the three vases , and put them back in their normal places , as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 12 | I drove twenty yards ahead so that the bus would not be blocking my way when it stopped at the bus stop , then I stopped and looked back . |
| 13 | Then I turned and ran back . |
| 14 | I watched the distant cloud from the explosion drift away over the firth , dispersing , then I turned and ran as fast as I could for the house . |
| 15 | I bought myself a mug of tea at the counter in order to pay for something for a change , then I sat and waited for Kathleen . |
| 16 | And then I sat and watched everyone very closely , and after a while I saw Finn chewing and chewing , and then he swallowed it . ’ |
| 17 | Then I stood and drooped everything ; my head , ears , tail . |
| 18 | ‘ If you was anyone else , I 'd say , get divorced , but you did that once and then you went and got married again . |
| 19 | then you went and forgot did n't ya ? |
| 20 | Then you went and set your blanket on fire one night and the fire engine out did n't you ? |
| 21 | And then you went and danced with that Lout — and with Herman . |
| 22 | The objections , we did n't re did n't really get the i you were doing that first of all and then you paused and started again |
| 23 | Her lips parted , hesitantly , beneath his , then she stiffened and pulled away . |
| 24 | Then she laughed , then she stooped and took my hand . |
| 25 | But then she realized that laid out before her was a flat surface . |
| 26 | Then she went and took a quick shower . |
| 27 | Then she went and spoiled everything by behaving as if pissed , lurching backwards and forwards till she ended up hanging upside down from my finger , gripping so tightly she almost drew blood . |
| 28 | And then she went and wrote it down , she goes , here are . |
| 29 | Then she went and turned off the light . |
| 30 | She removed it with her fingers , then she went and turned off the kitchen light and sat slowly swinging . |