Example sentences of "[coord] then [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved to London , becoming a law clerk and then confidential man of business to Sir Robert Rich , second Earl of Warwick [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | Pies and then frozen stuff , Bird 's Eye , we used to deal with . |
| 3 | He won two novice hurdles by wide margins in his first campaign , and then two novice chases the following winter before running away with the County Hurdle at Cheltenham from a field which included the smart mare Travel Mystery . |
| 4 | Just around the corner to the right and then first right and — ‘ |
| 5 | When I got home , I would buy a new computer and explore first DesignaKnit and then other software packages . |
| 6 | Topic , we had the right to choose topic , and then one girl |
| 7 | The bar of The Wheel Tapper filled up and then one night emptied completely : Woodstock had eventually found its way to the local cinema . |
| 8 | And then one night , one bright and starlit night , a true free dragon came by to pay a call . |
| 9 | He seemed to be doing fine and then one night I found him cold and dying . |
| 10 | And then one night , your father came home . |
| 11 | ‘ And then one night , ’ said Raynor , his eyes unreadable now , ‘ one night there was a great banquet for Samain , and that was the night that Medoc first came to Tara . |
| 12 | well what we do is that we we all know each-other 's hand- writing so we borrow each-other 's pens and like last night I did all of maths prep and he , we 'll both remember that , and then one night when I 'm like under a lot of pressure to do some prep , he 'll like return the favour |
| 13 | Every five years after the age of fifty or fifty five , I ca n't remember quite which , and then one year after the age of , after sixty five . |
| 14 | Laura took a step forward and then one back . |
| 15 | So for the rest of the month I was in charge of wages , piece rates , training , negotiations and all the rest of it , and then one day a month I was regularly calling on the same customers in Bloomsbury and I was collecting money , selling the goods and so on , which I think was a very important part of my continued training . |
| 16 | And then one day it awoke . |
| 17 | In the beginning he would always win and then one day , inevitably I suppose , I beat him . |
| 18 | Life goes on tediously , nothing happens for months , and then one day everything , and I mean everything , goes fucking wild and berserk . |
| 19 | It became a standing joke that we would eventually work together , and then one day it became serious . |
| 20 | We used to write songs together and then one day he wanted to get rid of me … |
| 21 | At any rate , everything on Plenty was going swingingly ; and then one day Capella spoke . |
| 22 | They review this possibility annually and he explained that when they have identified children who will go back they let them go into mainstream school for at first a morning and then one day a week . |
| 23 | And then one day they killed together … |
| 24 | And then one day I got a letter from Miss Wooler 's school . |
| 25 | And then one day he 'd come home early and found her in bed with someone else . |
| 26 | And then one day Montague addressed the company . |
| 27 | But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse . |
| 28 | And then one day , in some exotic city and years hence , he 'd hear the sound of hundreds of tiny feet accelerating down the road behind him … |
| 29 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 30 | Babur also understands the mild-mannered little men who tolerate their wives ' infidelities for twenty years and then one day they simply leap across the room and strangle her and saw her head off with the breadknife and put her bit by bit down the rubbish disposal , serves the fucking slut right , the sloppy slag trollop . |