Example sentences of "then [noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davy and then Faraday turned out to be brilliant lecturers , holding large audiences for courses on scientific topics , each lecture being illustrated by experiments , often of a spectacular kind : Davy made a model volcano filled with potassium , and poured water into it ; and Faraday flung the fire irons and then the coal-scuttle to a large electromagnet overhead . |
| 2 | Half a dozen men started forward to obey Burun 's shouted command , but then Kiku came out of the yurt door . |
| 3 | But then Sunderland came up with a new offer and Liverpool launched a fresh diplomatic offensive . |
| 4 | But just then Lisa looked up from the basket whose handle she was binding with ribbon , and laughed . |
| 5 | ‘ Then Orient came in for me and I could not have been happier with the way things worked out . ’ |
| 6 | This was the reverse face of German culture that underlay the barbaric treatment that Prussia and then Germany meted out to the peoples of the east . |
| 7 | Jonathan Davis put Widnes further ahead with a penalty early in the second half and then Goulding darted over with Davis converting . |
| 8 | Then Adams hit out at the dismissal of defenceman Mike Ware , saying : ‘ We 're told Mike went for a Fife player — he never hit him . |
| 9 | But then Molly grew up to be serious and , what was worse , she grew up to be big . |
| 10 | Then Travis moved on to his back , drawing her with him to rest her head in the angle of his shoulder . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ? |
| 12 | No answer , then Spencer passed out for a few seconds , only to wake to the pungent smell of burning and the sharp realisation that he must now get out of the thing . |
| 13 | Then Alexei turned back to her . |
| 14 | ‘ But I was fortunate because then Stoddard took over as a professionally run and profitable company and I 've spent 11 happy years with them . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
| 16 | Then Stephen walked on towards the open French windows , and Kate walked beside him . |
| 17 | Sophie nodded slowly , then Helen came up to the table . |
| 18 | And then Grainne sat up in the bed , and thought : in my position now , what would Dierdriu have done ? |
| 19 | And then Wayne climbed out onto the cruiser 's deck , and they let the subject drop , and Wayne was left standing there glancing from one to the other , damned sure that something was going on here , and equally damned if he could tell what it was . |
| 20 | Just then Lily shouted up from the basement to complain that the kitchen range was smoking again . |
| 21 | And then Abuelo came out of the cottage , dressed in a light grey suit , with a carnation in his buttonhole . |
| 22 | And then Sylvia came in with apologies and that perennially green hat , and we lowered the lights while she recited De Musset 's ‘ Nuit de Mai ’ . |
| 23 | It took only a few minutes to run to the kitchen and request Agnes Diggory to take Lady Merchiston 's luncheon tray straight upstairs when it was ready , and then Theda passed out of the house into the early warmth of a sunny April day , Hector charging ahead . |
| 24 | Then Rokovssky went back to the subject of the man and woman who lived in Newington Butts . |
| 25 | Then Withel stepped out of the shadows and tripped him up . |
| 26 | Then Perot bowed out of the race in mid-July , hailing a ‘ revitalised ’ Democratic Party on the same day as Clinton formally accepted his party 's nomination at the Democratic National Convention in New York City . |
| 27 | Then Sergia turned back to me , her smile regrettably fading . |
| 28 | Then Irvine broke through from the halfway line to make the score 3–3 . |
| 29 | Jenny went on quickly and then Sara moved out of hearing . |
| 30 | Just then Tobermory looked out of the window and saw the doctor 's big yellow cat crossing the garden . |