Choose the correct option to fill the blank.
No sooner did the thief see the public ______ he ran away.

then

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and

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but

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than

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Solution

The correct option is D than
The sentence is talking about the time when the thief ran away. The sentence begins with 'No sooner' which is a part of a correlative conjunction. Conjunctions which are used in pairs are called correlative conjunctions. Examples are 'No sooner..than'; 'not only...but also'; 'Neither...nor' etc. Therefore, the correct sentence will use the word 'than.'
"No sooner did the thief see the public THAN he ran away."
Options A, B and C are all conjunctions, but they cannot be used along with 'no sooner' to complete the sentence meaningfully.

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