Example sentences of "then they [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they greased his leg before easing it out from between the railings . |
| 2 | Afterwards they had a wedding breakfast in the Escargot restaurant in Greek Street nearby whose proprietor was an unofficial father figure to my mother so far away from home , and then they sent my mother 's parents in Brittany a coded message via the free French radio : Marie is still eating snails and all is well . |
| 3 | When God blessed them , then they shared their blessing with others ; Paul had been a recipient of that sharing . |
| 4 | Of course then they change their attitude SWET said well alright we 'll put it right down there in the corner . |
| 5 | After they had finished with her , the soldiers stood over her corpse and urinated into her mouth ; then they left her body for the dogs . |
| 6 | Then they put his beard back on . |
| 7 | Then they sighted their quarry . |
| 8 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |
| 9 | And then they measure your acceleration . |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , well , just tell them they got two more days and then they get their boy back in a bag . |
| 11 | If , at the end of the year , you have used less power than they estimated , then they credit your overpayment to your next year 's account . |
| 12 | Then they made their way crouching along it , their feet splashing through muddy water . |
| 13 | David introduced her to the warden , then they made their way to the residents ' common-room where Rachel was given a rapturous welcome by her new friends , in particular by a young Down 's syndrome woman called Belinda whose delight at seeing her again was only too apparent . |
| 14 | Then they took her pay packet away ; they would give her only £5 and she had to go to her sisters and borrow money for her clothes and things . |
| 15 | Then they took your temperature . |
| 16 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 17 | And they 'd come along cattle there just contented as could be and then they got their supper and we 'd give them a wee while of light still to eat their supper . |
| 18 | And then they kept their language kept the language . |
| 19 | Then they tell their da . |
| 20 | Children tend to look around them , consider the rules , the firmness of the adult , how other children behave and what is expected of them ; then they adapt their behaviour accordingly . |
| 21 | And he got the pi and then held the pig and I never was at the actual killing but I know they did er Then they cut its throat you see ? |
| 22 | Then they make their ale from what they have collected , and those who do not come there to drink and do not give money at the foresters ' will are sorely punished at their pleas for dead wood , although the King has no demesne ; nor does anyone dare to brew when the foresters brew , or to sell ale so long as the foresters have any kind of ale to sell ; and this every forester does year by year to the great grievance of the country . |
| 23 | Then they did their bit for the tourism industry — by taking a break in Dorset and Hampshire . |
| 24 | First they shoot children fleeing from war … then they bomb their funeral |
| 25 | Cos they said they were gon na sell it then they changed their mind , they were gon na pull it down |
| 26 | The other exciting thing was the leeches er because the monsoon had n't finished there were lots of leeches around , and I 'd imagined these huge things that were going to suck me to death , but they 're actually little , like , just very very tiny little worms , about erm an inch long and very thin and what they do is they sit on leaves and things and as you walk by they get flicked on to your boots or your socks and then they wiggle their way in and they , you ca n't feel them there , but what they do is they suck your blood until they explode |
| 27 | In the same way many Christians drive their faith unfairly when they believe , and then they flog their faith unmercifully when they doubt . |
| 28 | I went down the Kentucky in the High Street the other day , I had just come out , I was just standing there , when these black kids come up and start jostling me and then they nicks my chicken and chips . |
| 29 | ‘ Then they want your blood and your kidneys as well , ’ said Otley . |
| 30 | If anyone thought she 'd go back to the laboratory and behave as if nothing had happened then they wanted their head examined . |