Example sentences of "then she [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she stiffened in shocked disbelief , the Campari bottle poised precariously over her glass . |
| 2 | Then she added for good measure , ‘ I do n't know what you want to talk to me about , do I ? ’ |
| 3 | Then she added with sudden firmness , ‘ But after that I shall go home . |
| 4 | ‘ Mrs Wright asked if I wanted a lift home , then she went to that house , the one in the photograph . ’ |
| 5 | And then she went in one day and she knew she 'd had a thousand and said can I extend it ? |
| 6 | For a moment she could n't believe she had actually struck , then she stared in horrified fascination at the dark red stain spreading diagonally across de Raimes ' belly and down to his thigh . |
| 7 | Then she laughed with sudden pleasure . |
| 8 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 9 | Then she began on another tack . |
| 10 | Then she thought with simple and hard resolve : It is time to get married . |
| 11 | Then she thought about those other long low huts she 'd seen in the fenced-off meadow beyond St Michael and All Angels . |
| 12 | Then she looked at Sabine . |
| 13 | In the title role , Anne Dawson remained passive until error and madness set in near the end ; then she sang with increased energy , and spun her lines with great beauty . |
| 14 | And then she hid inside this cow ! |
| 15 | Then she undressed with due care for her dress , unbelievably crisp after its night of stress . |
| 16 | Then she retreated in bleak anguish to her bedroom , and sat hunched in the window-seat , looking out over the soft rolling lawns and distant Cotswold hills , dimly aware that her single most painful desire was that her mother were still alive , so she could pour out the secret desolation to the one person who 'd have understood … |
| 17 | And then she collapsed in one of the bedrooms . ’ |