Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 And then everyone raised their glasses in a spontaneous salute to the happy couple , to the perfect English village , to exotic foreign ladies , to the belle cuisine , to love , to life and above all , of course , to great detectives and their creator .
2 David says : ‘ After it finished , 18 of us from the course decided to carry on meeting but then everyone went their separate ways .
3 Then I grew it out
4 then I grew it out and then it was all brittle still so I had it cut .
5 So then I crossed it out and put Geneva .
6 ‘ He 'd been avoiding me , I knew he had , then I met him and he said it was time to finish , ’ Maureen wept .
7 I must admit I was getting a trifle worried but then I met them .
8 Then I met your father and we moved to the town .
9 Then I met my husband and was sure I 'd fallen in love with him because he cared so much .
10 Madness , of course , but then I met my husband .
11 And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known .
12 I was engaged to be married once , an engagement that was a mistake and I was lucky to get out of without too much trouble and then I met you and that is the sum total of my ‘ sexual demands ’ as you put it .
13 Then I brought it back and went out again with a blank canvas and that also is finished .
14 Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on .
15 Then I injured my knee , and during the time I had off to get my knee better , I discovered that there was life outside the ballet .
16 then I pedalled myself blue in the face on the Exercise Machine .
17 Then I discovered something small , but anomalous .
18 Then I discovered he could n't read music .
19 Then I discovered you were with the chief , being ticked off , ’ he said mischievously .
20 I touched a hair away from his lower lip , kissed the place where it had been , then I left him .
21 And er then I left them in forty six and went back to me first love , and er it was a little self contained union .
22 And then I left my brolly at the chemist 's , and had to go back for it … ’
23 Then I sent it to him .
24 Then I had nothing to do until my call on Inspector Redpath at noon .
25 And then I had it — specialising in aerial photography .
26 It was then I had my first taste of prison .
27 Then I had my great idea !
28 And , then I had my dinner in the night time .
29 Then I said what I can do — organise , put twenty-four hours in a day and I 'm energetic .
30 And then I said we were coming to Sarah 's , so she sends you her love .
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