Example sentences of "then she [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Then she consigned the letter to the wastepaper basket .
2 Then she lowers the paper cylinder and stands watching me again .
3 Then she recognised the ball was in her court .
4 Then she skimmed the familiar awful writing .
5 Then she blurted the thought out : ‘ D' you know I 've never thought of you as really English .
6 Then she touched the Thing .
7 Then she posted the envelope into the assistant 's container .
8 These she slipped in her pocket , then she tidied the stuff away .
9 Then she lifted the receiver while still holding out her other hand for the dog to lick .
10 Every now and then she feels the urge to do something exciting and out of character ; people are never quite sure what to expect from her .
11 Then she realised the regular banging noise was someone knocking .
12 Then she balanced the bottle on the log , and went to the greenhouse .
13 Then she heaved the pails out of the trough and carried them into the dairy , pouring some of the milk carefully into wide pans for the cream to rise .
14 Then she seized the offering in her hands and began to eat .
15 Then she ruffled the parakeet 's crest and watched it peck a sunflower seed .
16 Then she dragged the body to the workbench and pushed it into the cupboard , head first .
17 She paused a moment , looking worriedly across at the main entrance , and then she crossed the road .
18 We did take a plant into her on the Saturday before she died , and then she died the following Saturday er and she .
19 And then she recalled the words Emilia Frere had spoken : You have not known a man … you have not suffered at their nakedness .
20 And then she recalled the time when she 'd just started her training , and one of her friends had fallen madly in love with a houseman , a rather conceited young man named Stewart .
21 Somehow then she recalled the couple of business cards which Cara had given her and , in the hope that the woman might take her card to the master of the house , she dived into her bag and extracted one from her wallet and extended it to the woman .
22 Then she pushes the blanket off and stands up .
23 Then she brushed the recollection aside firmly by turning again to the typewriter .
24 She livened things up considerably , but then she had the most interesting part — by turns urgent , sinister and weird , against the clarinet 's rather bland melodiousness and the pianist 's all-purpose provision of harmony and counterpoint .
25 She looked good in the soft light , he was thinking , but then she had the kind of face that you did n't need to flatter .
26 And then she had the worry about Nona . ’
27 And then she had the stirrings of an idea .
28 Then she had the severest strain put on the control of her newly awakened ear-boxing predilection when his mouth twitched at the corners and it seemed , for a moment , that her sarcasm had amused him .
29 Then she had the dreadful feeling that he was not going to answer her anyway , for he said nothing .
30 They 're pulling , then she had the , the erm you know she got a phone for Christmas , we gave , we gave her a
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