Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun] [conj] then the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be wonderful to let go and throw the teapot across the room , and then the milk jug and then the sugar — lump by lump — at the family Hulsby and at Mitzi . |
| 2 | The neck , the lower stand , the loose ornament on the ropework cage and then the ropework , with the exception of the lower loops , were cast separately . |
| 3 | the battery you put one lead on the battery for the light bulb and then the other |
| 4 | The side strips and then the starter strip are nailed into place |
| 5 | But I remember after having resigned , sitting in the front in the band 's Commer van — there 'd be the driver , the engine cover and then the passenger seat , and you had to take turns sitting on the engine cover . |
| 6 | It 's really exag it 's really exaggerated , they really make erm , I can make all the country folk showed as real louts most of the people in the pub Tony and then the servants are really stupid and then |
| 7 | in the hopper whup and then the rest is in the field . |
| 8 | rule quickly by helping us to abolish the community charge and then the package will disappear altogether . |
| 9 | There 's er three sizes now , that we 're down to , the seven O one O , the seven O two O which are the drum bearings and then the seven two O five which is the lead screw bearing . |
| 10 | Well there 's a lot of there 's the land stations which are near towns or and then there 's the isl there were the island stations and then the rock stations . |
| 11 | Convictions could be appealed , not to any judicial authority , but to the government agent and then the Governor . |
| 12 | It was inevitable — and should have been obvious to the kinds of forecasting brains that IBM could afford — that the open systems movement would spread up from the desktop to infect first the minicomputer world and then the mainframe . |
| 13 | His short-lived journalistic career encompassed the Highland News and then the Cumbernauld News , but after making no headway he swapped it for being a press officer with the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive . |
| 14 | They must walk out through the camp gate and cross the road and the railway line and then the file will enter the compound of the Factory . |
| 15 | The tender had to be accepted by the housing corporation and then the builders had a summer holiday ! |
| 16 | William says that he wants to win and then hopefully look towards the world championship and then the next Europeans … it 's been a good year so far so he hopes it ends like that anyway |
| 17 | Henry passed the horseradish sauce and then the gravy to the Major 's wife . |
| 18 | Karen says that next year she hopes to go to the commonwealth games and then the Olympics in Atlanta . |
| 19 | Davy and then Faraday turned out to be brilliant lecturers , holding large audiences for courses on scientific topics , each lecture being illustrated by experiments , often of a spectacular kind : Davy made a model volcano filled with potassium , and poured water into it ; and Faraday flung the fire irons and then the coal-scuttle to a large electromagnet overhead . |
| 20 | the booklet choices and then the discussion can get going but the careers officer for half an hour . |