Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] and then [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Eventually the scheme could cover much of Scotland and then spread to England , ’ said Hugh . |
| 2 | Why had Richard first of all defended Châteauroux against Philip and then ridden away in his company ? |
| 3 | Indeed , Smith ( 1975 , 288 ) suggests that the school originated in Colchester and then transferred to Verulamium , although the similarity of an early pavement at Colchester ( the Cupids mosaic ) to what would be a considerably later one at Verulamium ( the Lion and Stag mosaic ) will make this difficult to substantiate . |
| 4 | Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay in 1947 , went to school in England and then studied at Cambridge . |
| 5 | After the Law Society Finals she served articles in private practice in Cambridge and then worked for a year as a litigation assistant in a branch office of a Suffolk firm in Mildenhall . |
| 6 | They were not activists in the movement — some of them might have been from the Moss and come to watch the barney — but all were sent to the jail in Inveraray and then taken to Edinburgh for prosecution . |
| 7 | After 1815 he first involved himself with the religious and social work of Thomas Chalmers [ q.v. ] in Glasgow and then moved to London where he initially promoted seamen 's charities and was an associate of the Evangelical Clapham sect . |
| 8 | Optimistic that they were on the right track , but aware that much still had to be done , first thing on the morning of Monday , 13 March Fleischmann sent a fax to Harwell and then talked on the phone the next day remarking that their information was incomplete , that they had much more to do before they would be confident enough and expressing irritation that they were being ‘ rushed into premature publication ’ . |
| 9 | The benefit should be paid from February to May , August to March and then ended as maximum number of payments have been made . |
| 10 | The Totteridges asserted that they had read till eleven on Friday and then gone to bed . |
| 11 | The RJO released Mann , 77 , in Beirut on Sept. 24 ; he was taken to Damascus and then flown to the UK . |
| 12 | The benefit should be paid from February to May , August to January and then ended due to expiry of benefit period . |
| 13 | Hankin moved on to Peterborough and then signed for Tommy Docherty at Wolves . |
| 14 | Bates took the decision on Sunday and then contacted former Chelsea defender Webb . |
| 15 | My friend says that George was only gone for five minutes , but when he returned from the toilet he said that he had been captured , flown to Venus and then forced to have sex with several beautiful Venusian lasses , who required his ‘ superior seed for the creation of a cosmic super race ’ . |
| 16 | Beyond that , the official Libyan theory rested mainly on the proposition that the suitcase containing the bomb had been sent unaccompanied on an Air Malta flight to Frankfurt , where , undetected by Pan Am 's inadequate security arrangements , it was loaded on to a feeder flight to London and then transferred to a third aircraft for the New York leg of the journey . |
| 17 | She turned to say something about this to Caspar and then stopped and listened , because now — yes , surely — there was the faint eerily beautiful singing of the sidh . |
| 18 | Telephone calls for the library might have a direct line so that these calls are not put down to Canterbury and then transferred again . |
| 19 | Educated at Eton and then sent to Europe to improve himself , he worked for a short time in various jobs in ‘ the city ’ before becoming an ADC to the Governor of Australia . |
| 20 | You know Irene and I had a holiday along there , we stayed at Frinton and then moved to Clacton . |
| 21 | He learned to fly on Caudrons at Hendon and then moved on to BE.2s . |
| 22 | That of the second piece is very similar to the smaller coin , a denarius struck at Rome , and indicates that it too was minted at Rome and then transported to Syria . |
| 23 | Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) . |
| 24 | The flask arrived at Felixstowe and then travelled by road to Dounreay . |
| 25 | Other candidates presented themselves : Brassard must know Miller 's End and he might have come to hate being bullied by Newley ; Yorick blamed Newley for his own failings , and was hysterical enough to kill on impulse ; Henry , having predicted Newley 's death , had a vested interest in ensuring that the prediction was fulfilled ; Zaza might have been seduced by Newley and then spurned |
| 26 | In the meantime , the injured driver and GAB workers were attended to by a first aider by GAB and then sent to hospital by ambulance . |