Example sentences of "then he [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he painted a completely different picture of the plant today … ‘ the new buildings are transforming Sellafield 's appearance . |
| 2 | Then he met a man who had a goose for sale . |
| 3 | A brief pause followed , then he asked a question . |
| 4 | He drank my drink because I said something about all the money he was always flashing around and then he made a dirty crack about … |
| 5 | Then he made a question mark away to the right on the same line . |
| 6 | It looks as if there was an opinion on high to leave Galileo alone , but then he made a mistake . |
| 7 | Then he made a sign to Sikes to tell Nancy to leave the room . |
| 8 | Then he made a big concession . |
| 9 | And then he made a troubled face . |
| 10 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 11 | Then he made an effort in another direction and tried to rehearse the future — not Monday but the future that lay farther ahead . |
| 12 | Where the defendant 's entry is by authority of law as opposed to the plaintiff 's authority and the defendant subsequently abuses that right , then he becomes a trespasser ab initio ( from the moment of entry ) ( Six Carpenters Case ( 1610 ) 8 Co Rep 146A ) . |
| 13 | Giant-fiend of a hundred hands , with a shower of arrowy death-pangs he transpierced me , and then he became a wolf , and lay a-gnawing at my bones ! |
| 14 | He acquired a small capital by scavenging and became a pedlar ; then he became a partner in a ship ; and his skill as a sailor and his fondness for travel took him to Scotland and Italy , to Denmark and Flanders . |
| 15 | First he went to St Andrew 's in Scotland , then to Rome ; then he engaged in regular trading between England and Scotland for a while ; then he became a professional sailor . |
| 16 | Then he became an agent . |
| 17 | Then he felt a new movement . |
| 18 | Then he felt a cloth being held against the wound . |
| 19 | Then he felt a tiny prick in his arm , and the pain , the faces , the roaring , all began to recede , and he floated away into a warm , restful darkness . |
| 20 | Then he caused a shock on the club and home front by switching to Glentoran . |
| 21 | He was educated at Lincoln until his mother 's death in 1845 and then he attended a boarding-school in Kibworth , Leicestershire ( 1845–6 ) . |
| 22 | Then he scratched a shallow nest in the earth and slept . |
| 23 | Then he developed a foot infection after running at Ascot . ’ |
| 24 | Just then he saw a familiar shape pass the window on its way to the rear door , heard the tap-tapping of high-heeled shoes on the flags outside . |
| 25 | Then he saw a stone fall , glance off a crag and hit Corti on the head . |
| 26 | But then he saw a servant he had that day badly mutilated , also pointing . |
| 27 | And then he saw a face he recognized . |
| 28 | Just then he saw a small boat moving out to sea , towards a ship . |
| 29 | And then he saw a very wonderful thing . |
| 30 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |