Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A horrible damp stifling smell then filled his lungs . |
| 2 | Hair was permed with Bain de Terre Acid Wave for Bleached Hair then left to dry naturally . |
| 3 | Tense each part then let it go , experiencing a wonderful sensation of release . |
| 4 | A little luck then comes your way . |
| 5 | Each segment then has a basic cost rate for a standard spot , in each of the time lengths allowed . |
| 6 | If you 're not prepared to sign that contract then forget it . |
| 7 | The traditional patterns of social organisation with their emphasis on hierarchical differentiation then become a major obstacle to the most efficient use of the technology . |
| 8 | Far away we can hear the noise of the wind forcing its way up some narrow gully then bursting free to hurl itself across the plateau we crossed yesterday . |
| 9 | Scheibler is also exhibiting two major watercolours by Joe Zucker , born in Chicago in 1941 and resident in East Hampton : ‘ Backdrops ’ , meaning sketches for his works , in which Zucker , a ‘ painter without a brush ’ , uses woollen socks , gloves , or a ski-mask to apply globs of paint on wood , the calligraphic effect then overlaid with networks of cables . |
| 10 | In those days guests would retire to an antechamber after the main meal for a banquet of blancmange — neither term then meant what they do today . |
| 11 | A higher income still was achieved in the first four years of Elizabeth , but the feudal revenue then fell back to between £12,000 and £14,000 per annum until 1598 , when an upward movement began once more . |
| 12 | ( a ) less than the difference between the total vote then credited to the continuing candidate with the lowest recorded vote and the vote of the candidate with the next lowest recorded vote ; or |
| 13 | Each side then loses something if there is an attempt to meet at a mid-point . |
| 14 | If this is another trick then stop , ’ she pleaded , her defences laid waste . |
| 15 | Another story then takes over . |
| 16 | Lou Macari signed a three year contract with Celtic this afternoon then told Scotland Today he would walk away if he could n't bring success to the club in that time . |
| 17 | playing golf this morning having a posh lunch and then playing golf this afternoon then having a buffet supper with prize giving . |
| 18 | British Rail then said that the accident was ‘ caused by a fault in the assembly of one of the bogie 's wheelsets ’ . |
| 19 | Another discussant then stated that community economic development grows from economic and social need and a history of deprivation within a community . |
| 20 | You have a view on a public loo then give us a ring , rather seedy unfriendly dirty smelling of urine places if you want my own public opinion . |
| 21 | Applying an external alternating magnetic field then causes the implanted ceramic to heat up . |
| 22 | There is a oh I I take it he 's got ta go for another assessment then has he for |
| 23 | Bracken House , the former home of the Financial Times , became the first candidate and English Heritage then submitted some 70 recommendations to the Department of the Environment ; these included Bankside . |
| 24 | The German countess then began to speak , but I was at this point , for some reason I do not recollect , obliged to leave the drawing room for an extended period . |
| 25 | The quality of a cultural practice then becomes a matter of its effect , in the moment of its impact . |
| 26 | This encoding then becomes a signal to the speaker 's articulatory organs , and he vocalises an utterance of the proper phonetic shape . |
| 27 | Sorrels in general were used by the Greeks and Romans for medicinal purposes , and had some medicinal as well as culinary application in mediaeval Britain , but the English sorrel then used ( R. acetosa ) was replaced for culinary purposes by the French version and has been so used until the preset day . |
| 28 | Go round this side then stands there holding her tummy You can see it ca n't you . |
| 29 | This messenger-RNA then carries the code into the cytoplasm where the protein is synthesized . |
| 30 | Since there is also other well known evidence collected by Sachs , Kirkpatrick , Zaslaw and others from L'Affilard , Pajot , la Chapelle , Marguet , Quantz , Pasquali , Choquel , Engramelle et al. , indicating that from 1717 to 1775 minuets were danced both fast and slow , anywhere between MM 53 and 80 per bar , is it really likely that it was only during the 1780s that musicians of the time just happened to slow down the minuet , playing only the bottom side of minuet tempos and not the top side then to speed up again afterwards by the 1790s and 1800s ? |