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Example sentences for "being then"

  • Two days later, being then in ward in this stronghold, he finds caution in ten thousand merks that on being relieved from ward he will repair to Edinburgh and keep ward there until set free.

  • He is mentioned in Domesday Book in 1078 as being then in possession of his father's estates.

  • The broad ships with flat bottoms being then full of chinks must be mended.

  • In April 1886, he being then seventy-seven, it held out during a speech of nearly four hours in length.

  • A short time after Brother Werner, the first Prior, was absolved from his office, this John Huesden was chosen the second Prior of the House, being then in the twenty-eighth year of his age.

  • I mentioned my intentions to Lord de Versely, and was pressed to stay until the following Saturday, it being then Tuesday.

  • Mr Culpepper struck out two-thirds of the articles, and desired the remainder to be ready on the Friday morning, it being then Wednesday.

  • We tried to land upon a third islet, it being then sunset; but a surrounding bank of soft mud making the islet inaccessible, we rowed on upwards, and landed with difficulty on the west shore before it became quite dark.

  • At 8h 45', being then in 5 fathoms, Booby Isle bore, N.

  • Cranstoun, being then safe in France, would not so commit himself.

  • Purpose, and the Remainder she remitted to me, being then in Scotland.

  • To this I made no reply, as Lord Mark Kerr at that instant came into the garden; Mr. Cranstoun and I being then at his house.

  • They even eat the seals which we had cast into the river, after they had lain fourteen days, being then full of maggots, and stinking most intolerably.

  • Being then examined, a few large crystals were found covered over with a dense solution; the whole had the innocuous odour of Labarraque’s fluid, and the fluid the usual acrid, biting taste.

  • Being then left to cool, a large quantity of well-crystallized bi-carbonate of potash is obtained.

  • Though conscious, being then in his seventy-eighth year, that he stood on the threshold of human life, he sought no relaxation from duty, no exemption from its performance.

  • But neither they nor their king being then able to hold out the Scots and Picts, which dailie made hauocke of their countrie; the said Vortiger in the third yeare of his reigne (which was the 63.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being about; being admitted; being allowed; being alone; being answered; being baptized; being born; being buried; being come; being confined; being deprived; being engaged; being entirely; being interpreted; being just; being nearly; being now; being pressed; being regarded; being sick; being subject; being understood; being very; being what; being written; personal religion