Example sentences of "then [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then I met a man . |
| 2 | Then I discovered a section on sailing vessels and decided that travelling the world by schooner was going to be my main occupation post-release . |
| 3 | Then I discovered a button missing from the shirt I had planned to wear . |
| 4 | Then I knit a rouleau strip to attach to the sides of the cone so that it can be hung up . |
| 5 | I parried most of them until we got to their door , then I put a finger to my lips and shushed them . |
| 6 | Then I had a phone call yesterday from my daughter herself ! |
| 7 | And then I had a go at him . |
| 8 | Then I had a call from my agent saying that Warren had fired me . |
| 9 | I settled a few things in the bathroom there and then I had a wash , I 've had a wash and did all the about quarter to eleven . |
| 10 | Then I had a mini-mohican . |
| 11 | I was thinking about it yesterday , I suppose — and then I had a dream last night . |
| 12 | So , in the example you 're referring to , I had like a title and then I had a sub-title and further details and another sub- title and further details , and then I had a total line |
| 13 | Then I had a stroke of luck . |
| 14 | As of right then I had a start on the police . |
| 15 | Then I had a piece of toast . |
| 16 | Even then I had a premonition of danger , of menace . |
| 17 | ‘ We had left it late to try for children , and then I had a miscarriage , ’ says Veronica . |
| 18 | Then I had a feeling of uneasiness . |
| 19 | Then I had a snack and watched telly . ’ |
| 20 | In the back of one of my homemade guitars I used a bit of thin foam , rolled up tight , to hold a battery in place ; then I had a brainwave to use a piece of this and lay it across the springs , between them and the rear plate . |
| 21 | Then I had a baby every year after that until I had five girls and three boys . |
| 22 | Then I had a boyfriend and I went to stay with him . |
| 23 | Then I had a letter from the social security . |
| 24 | and that was for that , then I had a letter back to say that we were having , there was too much money coming in a week for me to draw unemployment and then they , then a few days later I had this double page letter a big one that says you are entitled to no prescription help , X amount of pounds after erm eighty pounds per glasses you are responsible for the first eighty pound , we say that you can afford to pay that , so much on your teeth , if you 're visiting somebody in prison then you exceed a certain amount of mileage you can only get it if you exceed more than twenty five pound incurring , then I thought oh blow it , forget it , and I never done it , that all come to then , that 's why I wanted a ten of your wage , wage slips you remember now ? |
| 25 | I did hairdressing for five years and then I had a job as a manicurist at Claridges . |
| 26 | Then I became a vagrant and travelled far and nowhere ; now I have come back to be near Callanish again , though quite where I shall go I do n't know . |
| 27 | Then I became a Maoist . |
| 28 | Then I felt a fool and decided to leave it and mind my own business . |
| 29 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 30 | The rubber wheels of the chair she was pushing squeaked on the tiled floor as she passed behind me and then I felt a hand on my inner left thigh . |