Example sentences of "then he [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he sort of pirouetted , still … er … holding himself , and then he fell over and rolled down the stairs . |
| 2 | ‘ Someone could have hit him and then he fell over and hit himself on the fender or the door-jamb or the bedpost — ’ |
| 3 | Then he fell again and crawled forward , trailing the wire through the grass with the broken peg snickering behind it . |
| 4 | Killion stood there hiccuping until Lambert threw wine over him ; then he woke up and went to the doorway and started calling out . |
| 5 | For a second the Duke 's eyes closed , then he straightened up and spoke very quietly . |
| 6 | Then he straightened suddenly and returned the paperweight to its place on his desk . |
| 7 | Then he looked up and for a moment he was so amazed that he forgot the misery . |
| 8 | Then he looked up and said , ‘ Celia , you do n't want to remain at Brentwoods for ever , do you , to have our child turn to some third party for its emotional and creature comforts , to get the odd pat on the head from a parent at six o'clock of an evening ? |
| 9 | Then he looked up and met Emily 's eyes . |
| 10 | Then he looked up and appealed to the tomb with a traditional boatman 's chant : " It is not our will that we sail past , O Father . |
| 11 | Then he looked up and saw the great rat . |
| 12 | Then he looked up and bit out thickly , ‘ The hell I will ! ’ |
| 13 | And as he 's driven up at the back then he looked up and he said you ca you could see daylight through it so it was , was n't blocked by anything . |
| 14 | He ran the trolley down to the corridor 's end and left it there for someone else to pick up and use , and then he doubled back and started to walk the distance to the locker room . |
| 15 | Then he walked past and went on down the stairs . |
| 16 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
| 17 | In the pictures I was ‘ seeing , ’ Lord Lucan was walking past the house — then he walked back and went in . |
| 18 | He pondered the question , as if she had posed it seriously , then he leant forward and whispered conspiratorially . |
| 19 | Then he leant forward and very gently kissed her . |
| 20 | ‘ Good night , Ruth , ’ he said , then he rolled over and went to sleep . |
| 21 | Then he points out that two enquiries by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and the Office of Fair Trading have cleared the oil companies of malpractice . |
| 22 | Then he ran out and left me crying on the kitchen floor . |
| 23 | Then he shifted impatiently and gestured to the drawing-room . |
| 24 | He says that to me and then he turns round and says that they were all taking the piss out of Gemma because she 's got thunder thighs and she has n't , that 's the whole point ! |
| 25 | And then he fucked off and left me and he did n't give me I di this , it really pisses me off the way that people like leave before you get round to taping the tapes that you liked , do you know what I mean ? |
| 26 | Ah he said he was go he promised that he was going to bring a new disk , and then he had n't and then he did this and I thought mm I 'm not going to get a new disk out of him now it 's out of warranty and at least it 's working now and |
| 27 | For what seemed an age he stood stock-still , his silvery-green eyes on her face , then he reached up and , feeling in the cavity , retrieved its contents . |
| 28 | Then he reached out and placed his hand on her hip . |
| 29 | Then he reached out and drew the hair back from where it had fallen across her face . |
| 30 | He looked at her for a long moment , and then he reached out and slid his hand under her hair , around the nape of her neck . |