Example sentences of "then she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So then she cut through the dining room and into the lounge , where she found him sitting in front of the big Sony TV . |
| 2 | She sees she sees to the cats and then she stays in the see you 've got ta keep him company |
| 3 | Mavis stands in the book shop writing the name and the things down you see and then she goes to the library , she has n't been out properly yet with her knee has she ? |
| 4 | Then she crept into the kitchen , stole an envelope and a stamp from the kitchen drawer , and ran to the corner to mail her letter before she could change her mind . |
| 5 | She nodded dismissively at Joe , who glared and stamped back to the pigs , and then she came into the milking house and leaned against the far wall , looking across at Jinny . |
| 6 | Mother answered , then she came into the sitting-room and announced , ‘ Clare 's coming home . ’ |
| 7 | I said ju , I said to him then she came on the phone I was o ages on the phone and she said er I said you just take it as if it 's a day off and |
| 8 | Then she came to the conclusion that it might make things easier . |
| 9 | Then she went into the cottage and closed the door and I came out of hiding . |
| 10 | Then she went to the sink and filled it with lukewarm water and made the water frothy with soap-powder . |
| 11 | After she arrived home , she went to the bathroom for a quick wash and then she went to the kitchen to make a sandwich for the next morning at the factory . |
| 12 | Then she went to the prison to see Sarah . |
| 13 | Then she went down the stairs , collected her satchel and left the house by Phoebe 's front door . |
| 14 | Then she darted to the Jonquil … |
| 15 | And then she glanced at the window ; the darkness outside was complete . |
| 16 | Then she continued in the sort of I'll-be-reasonable-if-you'll-be-reasonable tones adopted by the Russian government to , say , the Lithuanians . |
| 17 | Then she ran from the cloakroom , down the narrow dark passage and out into the night . |
| 18 | And then she said on the , she said I looked at houses like this she said |
| 19 | Then she passed into the square , tessellated hall with its stone fireplace , the hall which , on winter nights , seemed to echo faintly with the childish voices of Victorian rectors ' children and which , for Meg , had always held a faintly ecclesiastical smell . |
| 20 | Then she stared at the picture for a full minute . |
| 21 | Alexandra thought of calling her back , explaining that Mrs Chamberlin might regret her kind invitation to dine with them on Christmas Day if Alexandra were to upstage the Rectory family in such a way , but then she reflected on the goodness of Mrs Chamberlin 's heart and the necessity of living up to at least some of Lyddy 's expectations of her . |
| 22 | Then she stamped up the stairs . |
| 23 | Then she flopped on the sofa to sort through the letters . |
| 24 | Cocooned in an ivory tower of antique furniture and unfinished jigsaw puzzles , she spends an inordinate amount of time doing simple things like pouring hot water into a teapot ; then she gets on the telephone to her friends and either hangs up just as they reach the receiver or asks them if they would n't mind coming round to tea and picking up some skate from the fishmonger on the way . |
| 25 | Then she gets in the back bedroom , we got a mirror at the back there what was took off one the dressing tables , and she sits and looks at herself in there and she keeps going like that |
| 26 | Then she dawdled through the mews where the milk-horses were shod , and the blacksmith made new railings to put in front of the houses . |
| 27 | ‘ I could have done without this , ’ she said , and then she got into the truck . |
| 28 | Then she got into the bed and waited for him . |
| 29 | And then she told of the particularly treacherous winter that they had had to endure . |
| 30 | But then she seemed in the end she she picked it up . |