Example sentences of "he then " in BNC.

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1 They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet .
2 Quickly she folded her arms round him then just as quickly pulled back to inspect his swollen nose and mouth .
3 He pointed to his seat and urged anyone interested to contact him then and there .
4 This is according to Angela , who was still married to him then , and still close to him .
5 I replied that if colleagues agreed with him then we could forget about the whole review .
6 His wife liked to keep track of him then .
7 The act of blessing and the dawn brought him then to his physical and spiritual senses .
8 And what could they do to him then ?
9 ‘ He turned down the part I offered him then — which was the best thing he ever did .
10 I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek .
11 She would have liked to have kissed him then , but could n't because they were in the street .
12 Louis-Napoleon 's enemies frequently accused him then and later of being without principles or ideals .
13 She turned her face up to him then .
14 ‘ Oh dear , where shall I find him then ? ’
15 Around the middle he started to string the birdies together and there was no holding him then .
16 If he beat him then , at birth , he might do it again .
17 Why was she with him then ?
18 Let's leave him then . ’
19 He waited until the guard was opposite him then he stepped deliberately over the warning rail and climbed slowly up the wire .
20 It came back to him then : the shooting flames , the moaning of a cow in terror , the booted foot swinging into his face .
21 him Then the teaset — Said plenty
22 I did n't take much notice of him then .
23 He felt tired , slightly drunk and frightened ; if an assassin was hunting him then the dark runnels of Edinburgh at night would only provide fresh opportunities .
24 I did not like him then and he did not like me .
25 It burst from him then , the thing he really cared about .
26 It struck him then how long a year it had been .
27 She knew he was remembering the last time they had drunk Martinis together and what she had said to him then .
28 If she had told him then , or even when the man had reappeared in her life at Helmsley she would now be on firmer ground .
29 She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole .
30 But if a player becomes available and Kenny wants him then that 's never a problem to me . ’
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