Example sentences of "then [pers pn] [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then I had been released to the Toko-ru on my own recognisance , that is an abject willingness to betray my comrades and help the malais in every way . |
| 2 | Fifteen years were to pass before I had a book published by Faber 's , but by then I had been launched by other publishing houses . |
| 3 | I had been in trouble before , but then I 'd been given probation and community work . |
| 4 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 5 | And then I said , then she 'd been bought a a hundred pound of leg waxing machine . |
| 6 | Rona was intensely practical in matters of charity , but then she 'd been brought up in a manse and was reading social studies . |
| 7 | Emma had a spell at a small , local Welsh school then she had been sent to one of London 's most exclusive girls ' preparatory schools , off Sloane Square . |
| 8 | Until then she had been tortured by fears that she might not recognise her son if she should see him . |
| 9 | Then she had been forced to leave when it was discovered that her real father was a white man . |
| 10 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 11 | I would have liked to wear it thirty years later when I travelled in the deserts of southern Arabia , but by then it had been lost . |
| 12 | Since then it had been discovered that one could be a parachutist and live . |
| 13 | Then it had been filled again , but this time there were no soft fruits from her native land . |
| 14 | But then it started being written about in magazines and newspapers in America and England , and the ‘ Voice of America ’ and West German radio did some broadcasts on it . |
| 15 | She was surprised by his hatred sometimes , but then he 'd been born there and grown up , while she was second-generation American . |
| 16 | Then he had been reprieved from an open-ended sentence of death by combat , and raised to a position of great prestige and power which also promised a life of action and danger well suited to his special talents . |
| 17 | Up to then he had been supported by the British Council , who now passed the buck to Bloomsbury House . |
| 18 | Since then he had been re-elected six times . |
| 19 | The smaller man was hit first , and then the taller man had seemed to move across to him , and then he had been hit . |
| 20 | Then he had been treated to a display of her marksmanship , involving both moving and stationary targets . |
| 21 | By then he had been transferred to the remnants of the British Battalion of the International Brigade . |
| 22 | Then he had been brought home , paralysed from the waist down , embittered and resentful . |
| 23 | By then he had been encouraged by the success of The Idea of a Christian Society ( 1940 ) though it is sobering to reflect that the sales , so he told me , were not much more than 6,000 copies . |
| 24 | He did n't mind admitting that he was attracted to Phil Prior , but then he had been attracted to many girls in the past . |
| 25 | Since then he had been attracted to several women , and discovered both the intoxicating pleasures offered by some of them and the speed with which fulfilled desire died . |
| 26 | Then he had been taken to a torture room , where he was told , ‘ it is in your interests to give up resistance and to co-operate . ’ |