Example sentences of "[vb past] then [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , I still see many of the images I created then reproduced in other countries . |
| 2 | Most people would n't — what can be more tantalising than a secret mentioned then withheld ? |
| 3 | Beneath his pale and archetypally reserved exterior something burned and melted , hardened then softened . |
| 4 | Returning about tea time , he 'd then gone out once more to deliver some computer disks for another project he was running in Heanor . |
| 5 | Yeah but if we 'd then gone in to re-present |
| 6 | He 'd then had to drive back down to Harlow again the following morning to sort out further problems with the system . |
| 7 | Some , they said had been declared unroadworthy by the Department of Transport who 'd then banned then from the roads and others were needed as evidence of alleged offences . |
| 8 | ‘ Please , feel free , ’ Mobuto replied then turned to Whitlock . |
| 9 | ‘ Never seen him before , ’ Doyle replied then held open the door for Bernard . |
| 10 | Kruger grinned then moved to the railing where he watched two female joggers passing beneath him , their bronzed legs moving in rhythmic unison . |
| 11 | After gluing , the curved members were cut to shape on the band saw then finished with the spokeshave . |
| 12 | The youth laughed then spat on the ground . |
| 13 | James attacked then hit by train |
| 14 | Delicate chicken breast , for example , steamed then caramelised under a grill , is served in a bowl of perfectly cooked white coco beans . |
| 15 | A drill press could be used , pressure applied then locked in position . |
| 16 | Emily hesitated then moved to the scrubbed table and sat down abruptly , her legs shaking so badly it seemed they would n't support her . |
| 17 | The High 's record company remixed then re-released their first single Box Set Go to considerable success , even though they were n't exactly bowled over by the idea . |
| 18 | What we drank then tasted like sulphur and ox blood ; it set fire to your tonsils . ’ |
| 19 | Ollie had then built up the impression that he actually had a right to all these advantages and was , therefore , a very important dog in the pack — not important enough to challenge the humans , but able to get their attention when he wanted it , and to defend his position against Stan . |
| 20 | In announcing the appointment Bush described Card , a former state legislator in Massachusetts , as " a friend of many years " , who had served in Bush 's campaign teams in the presidential elections of 1980 and 1988 , had then served for three years as deputy Chief of Staff to the controversial John Sununu , but had maintained a reputation for managerial efficiency and diplomacy . |
| 21 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |
| 22 | The victim had then chased the boy and caught him , before realising that he had been shot in the arm , which once more suggests that it can not have been a terribly powerful weapon . |
| 23 | Thus in a case in 1969 , where the 10-year-old child born in England of Spanish parents had been very unhappy during the seventeen months he had spent with them in Spain , and had then lived happily for several years with foster parents and their six children in England , the court refused to make an order that care and control should be granted to the parents , one of whom was in poor health . |
| 24 | She remembered , following the man 's visit , that she had sat dumb with rage , and had then rushed upstairs to his room , and every article belonging to him , even to his razor strop , she had brought down and thrown into the yard for the Saturday morning onslaught . |
| 25 | He had enjoyed being able to tell Sunil all about it at lunch , though he had been a little worried by the way Sunil had then gazed at Gooseneck throughout the meal with evident hero-worship . |
| 26 | Mary had been looked after by a nanny until the age of seven and had then stayed intermittently with elderly relatives . |
| 27 | Aggie had then sought the services of a good ratcatcher . |
| 28 | He had then sought to usurp him by demanding an EC inquiry into French 's affairs and by getting himself , though contrary to Rule as a non-sailor , elected as Delegate to the 1911 Annual General Meeting with a demand that he should be made Glasgow secretary in French 's place , only breaking away when he was not permitted to attend . |
| 29 | The US administration , under pressure from Congress , had then sought the ending of the Soviet economic blockade against Lithuania . |
| 30 | The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives judiciary committee called on July 10 for the appointment of a special prosecutor ( independent counsel ) to investigate the possibility that senior members of the Bush administration had contravened the law in providing military assistance to Iraq in the period prior to its invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , and had then sought to conceal the evidence through a cover-up . |