Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] [pron] with the " in BNC.
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1 | There have been a few moments during the making of Aspel and Company which have aged me considerably — but then I comfort myself with the thought that life would be very dull without any crises to get the heart racing . |
2 | If there are criticisms then I accept them with the same magnanimity which Martin claims I do not possess . |
3 | I met him at Aunt Alicia 's because he rented half the house , and then I helped him with the horses . |
4 | Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him . |
5 | ‘ You think you buy into somewhere crime can not reach and then it hits you with the worst kind . ’ |
6 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
7 | Then he hit me with the butt of his gun and the next thing I remember is coming round to find my colleagues crouched anxiously beside me . |