Example sentences of "then he [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he scooped up the bat , swept it back into the drawer , and composed himself at his chair . |
| 2 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 3 | Then he crossed out the sentence , savagely . |
| 4 | Some years later , in a draft version of " The Three Voices of Poetry " , he wrote that the last three quartets were patriotic poems ; then he crossed out the remark . |
| 5 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 6 | I phoned Debby to get Steven 's phone number to get him to leave out the microphone and the amplifier and then he brought up the microphone and did n't bring up the amplifier . |
| 7 | Then he ran up the rope of the alarm bell . |
| 8 | Then he ran down the wooden stair , through the house , out to the lower lawn . |
| 9 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 10 | So how did the work out because as far as I know the the riveter got the cash and then he divvied up the money between |
| 11 | Then he searched out the little hard protruding button that was the energy of her sex , he stabbed at it with his tongue , felt her respond quickly , then urgently . |
| 12 | Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died . |
| 13 | Then he screwed up the bag and threw it about two feet away . |
| 14 | Then he set off the expense of having a debtor arrested in this way , which failed to produce payment of the debt against the sums he recovered . |
| 15 | Then he pointed up the slope . |
| 16 | Then he switched on the torch and splashed through the puddle in the concrete to the shed . |
| 17 | Hugh drove neatly into the straw-covered shelter as though he were coming to rest in a multi-storey car park ; then he switched off the engine and opened his door . |
| 18 | Then he pulled down the oven door , smelt the sweet , fatty smell of the meat and knew that it was probably this very fact that accounted for his decision to go through with the business . |
| 19 | Then he pulled down the sheet , which was all the bedclothes she had needed on that warm night , and she lay naked before him . |
| 20 | and then he appeared up the top there . |
| 21 | Then he walks up the aisle in the centre of the classroom , shooting at the students lying beneath the desks . |
| 22 | He was just saying : Tweed is somewhere ahead of us but in this fog — Then he let out the most chilling yell — Ahhhhhhh — and the link went blank . ’ |
| 23 | Get help , ’ and then he scrambled up the bank and raced like a wild thing , screaming now , ‘ Bernard ! |
| 24 | Then he put down the knife and took the sticky thing in his fingers and started very slowly to eat it . |
| 25 | Then he put down the phone and glanced once more at the fingerprints beneath the microscope . |
| 26 | ’ Then he put down the phone before the number could be traced . |
| 27 | He stood without moving for a few minutes and then he put out the light . |
| 28 | ‘ See that ? ’ he said , and then he held up The Hook . |
| 29 | Then he turned back the top sheet and blankets . |
| 30 | But then he picked up the rubbish bag and slung it over his shoulder . |