Sentence examples for he promised then from inspiring English sources

Passenger pigeons would come first, he promised, then mammoths.

He promised then that the A's "cannot and will not continue indefinitely" at the Coliseum, their home since 1968.

If he could pull that off, he promised, then a Formula One team would be the next step.

But he promised then to address "legitimate concerns" of the health care industry, which feared that the rules would disrupt common practices of doctors and hospitals.

Schaefer was a first-class showman who in 1906 called a game-winning home run, then hit it to the exact spot he promised, then supposedly slid into every base, entertaining the crowd along the way.

He promised then that if charges were laid and the case went to court the truth would come out "when all the players are under oath .A court case may finally clarify why Mr Wright, who has been cleared of wrongdoing by the national police and has returned to the private sector, used his own money to pay Mr Duffy C$90,000.

So that was something they promised then.

I was amazed, at a meeting with Seif and some senior American diplomats, in 2008, to hear him describe as imminent the exact same plans he'd so described to me in 2005, without the slightest embarrassment that nothing he had promised then had even inched forward.

Perhaps it's a way of insulating himself from the insane ups and downs to which, as a minor popstar, he is subject: money is promised, then evaporates, he is dropped by labels, "undropped", then frozen out again.

If his post got 1,000 upvotes, Nolan promised, then he and Joy would go ahead and release the spoiler video.

All critics would be silenced, Hughes promised then, when he finally launched on private property outside the town of Amboy, Calif., on Saturday.