Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] and then [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 2 | And then of course and then when we used to go to pictures in afternoon Saturday afternoons when we was little . |
| 3 | And of course and then when we got older , when we got in us teens , we used to have to help us mother with the cleaning . |
| 4 | Unless of course we have a significantly increased level of erm of post and then that changes the scenario quite again . |
| 5 | His true capacities are tested , first as he battles with the rest of the crew against a fire in the cargo of coal and then as one of the holding crew on the tanker Arno , found badly holed and abandoned and taken into tow . |
| 6 | The English-language feature film came of age in the 1930s first because of its singularity as a piece of entertainment and then because it prompted responses which were important in defining cultural positions generally . |
| 7 | Therefore the said Justice Depute by the mouth of Duncan McIlvory Dempster of Court adjudged and ordained the above named to be taken upon the twelfth day of this instant month of June being Monday next to the ordinary place of execution and then and there be hanged upon a Gibbet till he die the death and his right hand to cut off and to be affixed to the most conspicuous place of the tollbooth of Killvorow in Ila there to continue till it rot or wear away , and ordained his moveables to be confiscated . |
| 8 | At the police station , she said , she was told first that she would be charged with assault and then that she would be charged with disorderly behaviour . |
| 9 | Yeah well they were supposed to be in flat and then when they 're cut it out you supposed , their supposed to turn it over |
| 10 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |