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 . |