Example sentences of "then they [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trucks thumped heavily past , one by one , with slow inevitable movement , as she stood insignificantly trapped between the jolting black waggons and the hedge ; then they curved away towards the coppice where the withered oak leaves dropped noiselessly , while the birds , pulling at the scarlet hips beside the track , made off into the dusk that had already crept into the spinney ( 4 ) . |
| 2 | Then they seem to take on a mind of their own , then they become positively malignant ! ’ |
| 3 | I think it depends what members of society we 're talking about , right , if people are educated and they have a way forward to improve their understanding , then they become less and less involved with a |
| 4 | Then they exploded noisily into the air right in front of you , wheeled round in great , sweeping circles , crying their alarm calls , and settled again when you had passed . |
| 5 | Then they sprang up joyfully and strangely , well away to the south in a part of the forest where they rarely were , so far as to be almost out of sight from the crown of an old dying beech where she and Allen were often perched like birds . |
| 6 | Then they speak out of the silence bringing their insights to the person . |
| 7 | And then they fall down and die and they give a signal er they scream and they pick something up . |
| 8 | If Snotlings find themselves themselves further than 12″ away from a unit of Orcs or Goblins , and if they can not move to within 12″ of a unit during that movement phase , then they mill around in a confused mass . |
| 9 | Then they end up like her . |
| 10 | And then they sent back for the you know the , the ones that had been there before . |
| 11 | Well that 's something to do with they 're working this Saturday and then they break up a bit earlier or something . |
| 12 | then they knew when a missile was coming in |
| 13 | had a number of people police were dealing with murder , then they knew straight away . |
| 14 | Then they lay down in the snow , and fell asleep , and never woke up again . |
| 15 | So they took it back to Wyvis Hall and hung it up again and then they lay out on the terrace in the sun , eating rump steak and potato crisps and drinking Hirondelle rose . |
| 16 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 17 | Then they sailed further on , to the fabled Costa Smeralda , one of the most luxurious resorts in all the world . |
| 18 | If the benefits they will receive , multiplied by the likelihood of their personal contribution making the decisive difference , exceed the costs of joining , then they sign up . |
| 19 | The one who goes f fi Who 's going to go second goes out so that he does n't hear anything and erm and then they change over er after thirty minutes . |
| 20 | They follow the drive , heat from the cracked tarmac rising in their faces , then they turn off along the path , dry grass scratching her legs . |
| 21 | Then they burned down a factory and forty-nine other houses . |
| 22 | Then they waited patiently for me to try hitting one . |
| 23 | And then they slide down the leaf and into the water . |
| 24 | and then they 've either got to replace the van |
| 25 | And if they only want twenty-four hours then they 've already made the appointment to hand it over . |
| 26 | Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again . |
| 27 | But then they 've always got the threat of er er er I mean at the moment there really is n't that threat is there ? |
| 28 | Then they form up into single file with as many as fifty in a column , each animal touching the rear end of the one ahead with its stick-like antennae , and set off briskly across the sandy sea floor , heading for deeper water . |
| 29 | Then they roam aimlessly about , frightened and confused , trying to get back . |
| 30 | And then they put up a big tent in the Beside the school where you went out for your supper er it was that . |