Example sentences of "[conj] then [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With slow wrinkling his stiff face relaxed now and then into a feminine tender smile . |
| 2 | Should your goals be made smaller and then into a longer list ? |
| 3 | These principles can be projected into a third dimension to describe complex volumes ; and then into a time dimension , as in the cinema and television . |
| 4 | Puff pastry goes on top and then into a very hot oven . |
| 5 | Gate B — pursuing his current job in computer sales — led on to a tarmac road , and then into a grey housing estate , ending in a cul-de-sac . |
| 6 | Willie followed him next door into a chemist 's shop and then into a grocery shop . |
| 7 | Hazel and Fiver went a short way above ground and then into a wide open hole in a sand patch and so down , by various runs , until they were thirty feet into the wood , among the roots of an oak . |
| 8 | Ultimately , however , the beavers ' lake , like any other , will fill with sediment and turn first into a swamp and then into a level green grassland . |
| 9 | At first she went all over the place , this way and that , and then into a spin . |
| 10 | ICI Chlor-Chemicals takes salt solution from its brine fields and turns it first into chlorine and then into a host of downstream products . |
| 11 | I started to wander again , in and out of second-hand bookshops , and then into an amusement arcade . |
| 12 | This time the researchers have looked for steps in the decay chain of a B meson , in which the b quark converts first into a c quark and then into an s quark ; this means that the B meson decays into a charmed D meson , and then a strange K meson . |
| 13 | This is done by inserting a special plastic tube into a limb artery , threading it to the heart and then into an affected coronary artery , manoeuvring it so that the tip is just past the narrowed section . |
| 14 | Go along this for about 50 yards , then turn off right and drop down towards the wall and then towards a big double metal gate ahead . |
| 15 | Manzù 's girl is thus described by Trier first as an artefact , and then as a person ; his terms of reference are the characteristics of two other sculptors . |
| 16 | Instead he went to work for Famous Players-Lasky , first as a subtitle writer and then as a screenwriter . |
| 17 | Dorothy saw wartime service in the Woman 's Land Army , first in the timer corps and then as a tractor driver . |
| 18 | It was at the latter that Fleischmann worked , initially as a fellow sponsored by Ia , the major chemical company , and then as a lecturer . |
| 19 | And so did Lynne 's stage career — first as a singer and then as a comedienne . |
| 20 | What is indisputable is that as an undergraduate and then as a research worker for Child Poverty Action Group , far from regarding such evidence as ‘ defeatist talk ’ you not only accepted it but added to it . |
| 21 | It has an illustrious past , first as a grand private mansion and then as a hotel and has been visited by many crowned heads of Europe and many great literary figures such as the poets Milton , Shelley and Keats . |
| 22 | Take a day off now and then as a reward . |
| 23 | Middlesbrough developed in the middle of the nineteenth century as a coal port and then as a major centre of steel and chemical production . |
| 24 | This fall in oil production jolted the process of economic management , particularly since the leadership had become accustomed to a high level of revenues after the OPEC price increases , first during the campaign to this end in the early 1970s and then as a by-product of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 25 | Apart from a ten year break to raise a family and one other short break , Jean has also worked continuously , mostly as a Spool Setter and then as a Colour Counter , calculating the percentage and number of colours used in each new design . |
| 26 | And then as a quick check , just a rough check . |
| 27 | The £4.5million Beach End complex , which will seat 6,000 , has been named in honour of the Aberdeen chairman who has been associated with the club for 60 years , first as a player and then as a director . |
| 28 | P.S. They cook good western food here , and I am enjoying it now and then as a change from Chinese . |
| 29 | He wrote a cross against Gareth 's name , and then as an afterthought , a question mark also . |
| 30 | While children are notoriously prone to insert small objects into their ears or noses , the dawn of adult sexual awakening heralds a second phase of insertion in both males and females , at first in an exploratory fashion and then as an adjunct to masturbation or to heighten sexual pleasure . |