Example sentences of "then [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man did n't need telling twice , and as the boy began to follow him , Connor suddenly remembered : at some time during the evening , when the saloon till ran short of change , he had put in some silver of his own and taken out a fiver — then stuffed it in a pewter tankard on the shelf for safekeeping . |
| 2 | Northfield School Billingham , made 81 for six then skittled Our Lady and St Bede 's Stockton , for 40 , Stephen Collier taking three for six . |
| 3 | She shuddered then gritted her teeth , forcing down the pain she felt . |
| 4 | To deny herself equally , she acknowledged bitterly , still painfully aware of her body 's aching need for fulfilment as she pulled the straps of her dress up over her shoulders and then zipped it up swiftly . |
| 5 | Meanwhile her friend walked as far as the bike , then rode it to the point where he met Lorna , who then rode further while he walked … and so on . |
| 6 | Mungo grinned , and then checked himself , not wanting to upset Jack . |
| 7 | When his pain became very severe , he prayed to God for his release , but then checked himself : ‘ It is not fit for me to prescribe when thou wilt , what thou wilt , when thou wilt . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ What about you ? ’ he said , then checked himself . |
| 9 | Springfield made as though to answer , then checked himself with a quick glance in Pam 's direction . |
| 10 | Frantically she rooted round , then checked her pockets without success . |
| 11 | Henry thought about his father-in-law 's funeral , as he placed the Chicken Thallium in the oven , and then checked his watch again . |
| 12 | Dalgliesh began rapidly but methodically to clear his desk , then checked his murder bag . |
| 13 | He was taken back to the ward on his bed and staff nurse then checked his condition . |
| 14 | His son Kieran then succeeded him and retained his seat there until 1989 when he did not seek re-election . |
| 15 | He looked down miserably , and then wiped them away . |
| 16 | She gave a tiny giggle as a little dollop of cream adhered to the tip of her nose ; she removed it with one finger , licked the pinky , then wiped her nose with her napkin , glancing round the restaurant through the confusing topography of slats and uprights of the seats and screens , apparently worried that this minor lapse in hand-mouth coordination was being critically observed by any of the surrounding middle-class matrons , perhaps with a view to passing on the scandalous morsel to their opposite numbers in Gallanach and having mother black-balled from the local bridge club . |
| 17 | Mr Slipper shook the Bookman 's hand , then wiped it clean on his hanky . |
| 18 | Spat on it , then wiped it again . |
| 19 | He then wiped his hanky clean on another hanky . |
| 20 | I smeared the red stuff over the top of the main beam which crosses from one I-girder to the other on the tower , then wiped my small wound with an antiseptic tissue from one of my bags . |
| 21 | S but what they say is part of his managerial status demanded him having a company car to which I was given one as well but in effect that then became his wife 's because he was still banned for drink driving . |
| 22 | Nicholas appointed him to the State Council and the Committee of Ministers and then made him chairman , in 1842 , of the committee which supervised the construction of the railway between St Petersburg and Moscow . |
| 23 | They forced him to draw money from a cash machine and then made him drive to his home in Moulton where they threatened his parents with a kitchen knife . |
| 24 | Mothers shaved the heads of their daughters and then made them undress to take cold baths in public on the Hill of Calvary . |
| 25 | He tensed , then made himself relax . |
| 26 | Out of nerves and hero worship , he had three double Scotches before setting out and two more on the way , and then made himself self-destructively late by going into a greengrocer 's to buy some mint to chew so as to disperse the Scotch . |
| 27 | Jonas poured them both a small measure of brandy , handed one to Paige , then made himself comfortable again , eyes watchful . |
| 28 | I was hungry but had to wait while he fiddled with a saucepan and then made me endure the smell of the meat coming from it . |
| 29 | The intern cleaned me up then made me lie on a trolley in a curtained cubicle . |
| 30 | Cos it was Kelly that like , said , yeah , you 're my best friend , do you know what I mean , and then made me say Kelly 's my best friend , do you know what I mean ? |