Example sentences of "[conj] then he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob , Bob , for a bit and he done a few miles on it and then he sold it to somebody else in the garage . |
| 2 | I told him not to be silly and then he stabbed me . |
| 3 | For a long time he held the photograph , fingering it gently , careful not to mark it , and then he pinned it to the cork-board on the wall . |
| 4 | And this how li , this is how God spreads the gospel , this is how he spreads his message through his people through using his pe , using in the very best sense of the word , he does n't make use of us he involves us in his work , and so , he saves us , he satisfies us and then he sends us forth , and he does that with this woman . |
| 5 | And then he heard something else which utterly horrified him . |
| 6 | His Mum went to open it and then he heard it close again . |
| 7 | And then he heard it — the thick , heavy thud of a big fieldgun far in the distance . |
| 8 | ‘ They lived together in Red Hall and then he went his way and she went hers . |
| 9 | I thought that was , that was a really good line in that cook thief his wife their lover film where he went , he said something about she 's great except she will keep popping to the John and then he went she 's got a bladder like a leaky marrow |
| 10 | And then he told him clever , amusing stories about the women that he himself had loved . |
| 11 | He gave me a sort of world-weary look — and then he told me . |
| 12 | I found some brandy and it steadied him a bit … and then he told me he 'd been to Angy 's flat and found her dead . ’ |
| 13 | And then he told me a hilarious story about the way in which the chairman of the committee , I 'm not sure quite what particular branch in the world he 'd come from but he was looking at the figures , I suppose it was an accountant looking at the , the figures saying now why is it that the amount spent on district nurses has gone up ? |
| 14 | Brom not Brompton Barracks , Barracks , and I saw him there first of all and then he told me they were going send me to Tidworth . |
| 15 | The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky . |
| 16 | And then he knew what it was that had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 17 | The sting was no longer there and then he knew he had to make the confession which would herald the end for them . |
| 18 | One came round and sold me sheets and then he offered me a loan . |
| 19 | Miloš used these funds to buy estates from the Turks , and then he transferred them either into his own hands or into those of his Serbian friends . |
| 20 | They bought out , this company have bought out a new tile and he said they 're looking for a sort of nice house to have as a sort of a show house and then he thinks he 'll get them for nothing . |
| 21 | And then he blew it all at the last minute with that interference . |
| 22 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 23 | For an extraordinary moment , because of the faint frown he gave , Meredith thought he was n't sure , and then he recovered his poise . |
| 24 | And then he asked her , ‘ And what about you ? ’ |
| 25 | And then he asked me , he said , Well , have you read that notice on the board about er scholarships ? |
| 26 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 27 | And then he asked me out in the end . |
| 28 | and then he asked me then and erm , he did n't know whether to ask me or not , well he knew , he knew more or less I 'd say yes anyway , cos I more , I 'd already said yes , but not to his face , so but he did n't know whether to because Henry fancied me |
| 29 | And then he lowered his head , and breathed out . |
| 30 | She gave a little , nervous laugh , and then he lowered his head , and was kissing her , his lips moving lingeringly over hers , his tongue tracing patterns on her lips , probing the yielding softness of her mouth . |