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Usage examples of "and then".
She staggers away from her car and toward Old Doc's house nevertheless, blood pouring down her neck and soaking the left side of her blouse, her hair briefly burning in the rain (he sees this, he sees everything), and then for a moment she turns in Johnny's direction and looks at him with her one remaining eye and the lightning flashes, filling that eye with fire.
It'll be gone in another ten or fifteen seconds, he knows, driven to earth and then washed away by the pounding rain, but for the time being it's still there, as if to keep him from even trying to believe it was all just a hallucination .
He checks the rearview again and catches sight of something bright red up on Bear Street beyond the Josephson place a van, it looks like, parked just beyond the southwestern corner of the intersection and then swoops his Schwinn back across the street again, this time to 247, the Wyler place.
She paused, wondering where it had come from, and then realized: Richard Wilson must have left his things there when her father had ordered him out of the house.
Collie looked at the boy lying facedown and dead on his lawn, his clothes already damp from the lawn sprinkler (and the papers that had spilled out of his carrysack turning a soggy gray), and then at the van.
He'll deliver the Shopper on to the porch with his usual hard flip, and then if the crazy ex-cop doesn't come charging out the front door, foaming at the mouth and glaring at him with stoned PCP eyes, maybe waving his service pistol or a machete or something Gary will go across to the E-Z Stop for a soda to celebrate another successful negotiation of his route: Anderson Avenue to Columbus Broad, Columbus Broad to Bear Street, Bear Street to Poplar Street.
Bayley zoomed in on the license plate, and then the vehicle was gone, receding into the mass of traffic.
They'd be released on bail, and then, if they were involved in something bigger as he suspected they were, they might well disappear.
He walked out into the hallway, turned to close his apartment door, and then checked himself.
He thinks of adding Except that I think Mrs Wyler's standing in her door back there with her shirt off and then doesn't.
Dave tosses the Frisbee to Susi Geller and then takes the Shopper when Gary flips it to him.
His attention is focused on one thing and one thing only: delivering the crazy ex-copper's Shopper and then getting away unscathed.
I didn't know they could do that, he thought, and then: What kind of van is that, anyway?
The black man glanced to the left and saw the red van was gone it had just disappeared behind the trees which screened the part of Hyacinth Street which ran east of Poplar and then bent over, hands on knees, gasping for breath.
He had managed to quit for almost ten years before the bastards downtown had first shown him the door and then run him through it.