Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] then [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A horrible damp stifling smell then filled his lungs . |
| 2 | Fearful of the growing possibilities of default , the US monetary authorities then pulled sharply on the reins by insisting on tougher capital/asset ratios . |
| 3 | Hair was permed with Bain de Terre Acid Wave for Bleached Hair then left to dry naturally . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | British Rail then said that the accident was ‘ caused by a fault in the assembly of one of the bogie 's wheelsets ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | British courts then disapplied the Act ; after several appeals , the European Court ruled that this suspension was valid , and the 1988 Act was overruled in 1991 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The main aim of British units then became to prevent these crossing the River Drau . |
| 10 | And yeah , wet dream then did n't you ? |
| 11 | got to the old mill then did you ? |
| 12 | Sergeant Murphy and four accompanying gardai then took the men 's names and addresses . |
| 13 | That was certainly the case until the early 1980s , but British miners then started to lose their jobs to imports . |
| 14 | My right hon. Friend then said : ’ I understand that in this instance Dr. Beer 's request was considered at some length by an assessment panel of six which included the District Chair , Chief Executive and District Director of Public Health . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman then said that he was thinking of municipalising water . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman then implied that it was difficult for people to obtain certificates because of the cost of obtaining the qualifications . |
| 17 | The German guns then opened up but not to the same extent . |
| 18 | British Airways then flew me free of charge to Paris , where the Niger authorities gave me permission to cross their territory . |
| 19 | That commercial television then proved to be popular is beside the point . |
| 20 | One way of raising loans was to go to the market , paying interest at the high rates then demanded . |
| 21 | yeah , they did n't have rubber bullets then did they , they had the old |
| 22 | In fact , the British inventor P. J. Packman took the idea a stage further ; he developed a cutter for V-shaped grooves , rather than the U-shaped grooves then considered normal , so he got a deeper groove at the same time . |
| 23 | Nearby ewes then ran away , followed by lambs that scampered after their mothers . |
| 24 | The 13-year-old pupil at Alsop High School then grabbed hold of Jade and pulled her to the side of the boat even though he is not a strong swimmer himself . |
| 25 | She turned right into the High Street then jumped from the cycle and began pushing it up an alleyway on her left which led into the stables cum car park at the rear of the Berkeley Chase Hotel . |
| 26 | Some of Mr Sharif 's infuriated followers then kidnapped the secretary of the provincial assembly , Chaudry Habibullah . |
| 27 | Jenner 's stiff and stilted prose then went on to describe how the ‘ model ’ — the first of a number — had been allowed to recover before the serrated plates of a Kocher clamp had been placed around its tail . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , public interest then began to fall off and the sing was suspended from 1866 until 1894 , except for a special event to raise funds for new public baths for Holmfirth in 1887 . |
| 29 | The received wisdom was that the Foreign Office then rescued her … |
| 30 | A shaggy red monster catapulted from the interior , appeared briefly in the narrow passage then emerged at about fifty miles an hour from the other end with portions of his lordship 's creation dangling from its horns and neck . |