Example sentences of "they then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They then bundled him out of the car and left him on the road . |
| 2 | They then support Swervedriver on all their dates . |
| 3 | They then support Swervedriver on all their dates . |
| 4 | They then haul the prey back to the shell and slowly engulf it . |
| 5 | They then count , but they must not say any number that is a multiple of seven or has a seven in it . |
| 6 | They then experienced little difficulty in deciding of what private morality consisted . |
| 7 | They then returned to Cherbourg and succeeded in entering the Harbour and dropping the torpedo , but the aircraft was hit and crashed at Bourbourg at 23.30 hrs . |
| 8 | They then returned to the Print Room , while guests went in to luncheon in the Great Hall . |
| 9 | They then returned to the offender 's home , but the victim left immediately and returned to her parents ' home . |
| 10 | They did so and informed their clients of what they had discovered ; they then returned the papers . |
| 11 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 12 | They then tend to slump rapidly until about the eighth year ( known as ‘ the years of depression ’ ) when the sward is considerably less productive than the original permanent pasture . |
| 13 | They then spent the rest of the lesson — the first part had taken twenty minutes — in writing an account of why Rome was settled where it was and comparing it with the legends that they knew concerning Rome . |
| 14 | I would far rather say , if I had the seven thousand pounds , say to both my daughters there you are dears , there 's the seven thousand pounds you decide how much of that you want for your wedding what is left over you keep , and it would be interesting to find out how much they then spent on their photographers , and on their cake , and the , the wedding cars etcetera . |
| 15 | They then sold the car to W , another dealer , who , although he inspected it , remained unaware that there was anything wrong with it . |
| 16 | They then argue that this means starting at a ‘ more basic level ’ by considering the following three sets of issues : |
| 17 | Medved 's own figures show that while weekly attendances fell to 17.5 million in 1969 , they then levelled off and the figure for 1991 was 18.9 million . |
| 18 | The bats just decided to smash me around the island , and for every bag of boundaries they hit they then made a mistake . |
| 19 | They then made two coded telephone warnings to Scotland Yard at 8pm claiming there were four bombs planted in a one-mile radius of the West End which were set to explode at about 8.30pm . |
| 20 | They then made their agreement , which can truly I think be said to have been made under compulsion , by the telex of June 28 , without prejudice to their rights . |
| 21 | They then made hard progress to 8s ( 40p ) over the next decade before enjoying a moment of relative prosperity in the last years of the war , reaching 12s ( 60p ) in 1814 . |
| 22 | They then took on the appearance of microspheres , behaving and looking like living cells . |
| 23 | They then took 30 minutes to an hour to settle again . |
| 24 | They then took two weeks ' holiday and , on their return , gave one week 's notice and left when this notice period expired . |
| 25 | ‘ They then took them across the pedestrian bridge over the Westlink and , to calm them down , told them they were in the university area . |
| 26 | They then took an Astra car but neighbours heard the car being broken into and alerted police . |
| 27 | They then tail off to a level which , for the majority of the manual working population , is less than that enjoyed in their early twenties . |
| 28 | This they did , and they then determined the nucleotide sequence of the gene , and thus the protein it codes for . |
| 29 | They then asked the board questions and a pointer on the board moved to either ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ to give them an answer . |
| 30 | They then seemed destined to suffer the same fate as Jack Handy 's firm : a sharp decline due to financial extravagance and a lack of closely controlled management . |