Example sentences of "then [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Station Officer Alan Bridle , from Canning Place 's Green Watch , said : ‘ When we arrived I got up on to the roof and then lowered myself down into the centre . |
| 2 | She bent quickly to kiss her father , then let herself out into the shadowy hall , and made for the wide , oak-panelled stairs . |
| 3 | Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ? |
| 4 | Bathsheba walked up and down , crying and whispering to herself , then threw herself down by the road , exhausted . |
| 5 | She spread them out , then settled herself down on the sleeping-bag beside the fire to comb her hair dry . |
| 6 | ‘ If there was anything that caught his ear , he would tell everyone to be quiet and listen , and then fling himself about to the music . |
| 7 | The moment passed and I slowed quickly , dropping to a trot as I approached the Bomb Circle , almost staggering into it , then flinging myself on to the sand inside to lie panting , heaving , gasping , staring at the grey sky and invisible drizzle , spread-eagled in the centre of the rocks . |
| 8 | Here Cornelius fed the motor car with the best petrol that money could buy and then took himself up to the restaurant to join Tuppe . |
| 9 | Lydia put a mug of tea in front of her master and then took herself off to the dairy , where she and Martha unashamedly listened at the door . |
| 10 | ‘ Milk , no sugar , ’ Graham said to Sabrina then eased himself on to the couch beside Kolchinsky . |
| 11 | Paula was just 16 , when her boyfriend , whose name was not given , went to his probation officer then gave himself up to the police . |
| 12 | He offered her the only chair then set himself down on the edge of the bed , facing her . |
| 13 | He did a double stint of exercise until he was clammy with globules of sweat and then sluiced himself over from the two cold jugs of water Christine had brought him up after breakfast . |
| 14 | I got out of bed gah ! — and then picked myself up off the floor . |