Example sentences of "then he [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a full bomb load , but managed to level the plane long enough for his crew to bail out , then he managed to steer it away from the town and crash into a nearby field . |
| 2 | For a moment he searched her face , looking for something , and then he seemed to find it , whatever he was searching for , for with a half-smile , his eyes still open and fixed on her face , he entered her . |
| 3 | And then he said try it again and she rang and she asked , she said had the cheques come . |
| 4 | Then he had spoilt it by saying that his reasons for leaving Australia had been personal , and she had assumed he had been involved in a similar situation to that with Jennifer . |
| 5 | Back then he had sounded so certain — so sure of things — but even then he had questioned it , at some deeper level . |
| 6 | First he had mocked it , then he had joined it , and now he represented it . |
| 7 | He never expressed any special wish to own a Mercedes until he could afford one : then he had to have it , and it had to be bright red . |
| 8 | He goes , call it , call it Ma call it Martin X and then he says call it Nigger . |
| 9 | Then he began to find it impossible to withdraw his mind from a vision of this house empty , and of the rooms he would be returning to . |
| 10 | Only painters would find this featureless landscape interesting , but if Max Liebermann and Mauve — to name only two — had found it worthwhile , then he wanted to see it . |
| 11 | Then he decided to treat it as a joke and giggled . |
| 12 | And then he 's made it , horror shy , homeward bound . |
| 13 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |