Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [conj] then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in one experiment rats were exposed throughout infancy to the music of either Mozart or Schoenberg and then given musical preference tests in adulthood ( with the result that animals brought up on Mozart showed a definite preference for that music , whereas the Schoenberg-reared group gave no indication of a hankering after the familiar music ! ) . |
| 2 | As is so often the case in Paisley 's career , the crucial step was taken by someone other than Paisley and then offered to Paisley as an opportunity the possibilities of which he could appreciate . |
| 3 | Try the sophisticated cocktail bars like Nouveau 7 and Tartaya and then move onto the Breezie or Plantation discos for some serious dancing . |
| 4 | Dermot looked round briefly at Patsy and Ellie and then said something to his two brothers which made all three of them laugh . |
| 5 | Or to jeer at the discredited Baltic Communists who rode in behind the thugs , proclaimed themselves in charge in Lithuania and Latvia and then scuttled for cover . |
| 6 | He was engineering superintendent for Magnus and Clyde and then lead mechanical engineer for Miller commissioning prior to his Wytch Farm assignment . |
| 7 | ‘ Why did she go from As and Bs and then down to Cs and Ds and then to steady As . ’ |
| 8 | Or , for that matter , what good is it to the teacher who has to keep up with the ins and outs of teaching reading and who needs to diagnose the difficulties of Jason , Amil and Della and then advise a colleague on how to help them ? |
| 9 | He lifted his sword and slashed , one , two , three , at the men between him and Siward and then found himself hurtling beyond him , pushed by the momentum of his own men screaming behind and on either side . |
| 10 | He was in France for six weeks in August and September and then had another two or three weeks staying with friends in the North of England and Scotland . |
| 11 | Right , and Templepatrick and then sign for Antrim then R T on left . |
| 12 | Before that though , we 're going to get a huge fretsaw and cut along the borders of Essex and Suffolk and then saw down from The Wash to meet the other line . |
| 13 | It will haul a special train over the S & C Settle and Carlisle and then retire to the National Railway Museum in York . |
| 14 | I studied homoeopathy in both Glasgow and London and then started a part-time appointment at the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital , taking over in addition a small general practice . |
| 15 | Thomas , 16 , took a massive overdose of painkillers and Pernod and then wrote a letter leaving everything he owned to her — including his footballer of the year trophy . |
| 16 | Then followed a string of airlines : Crusader Airways as ZS-DDV in April 1950 ; BEA as G-AJXL then G-AMGD from October 1950 ; then Autair , Continental Air Services , Air Links , Skyways , Autair again ( but this time in Rhodesia as VP-YTT ) ; National Airways as ZS-EKK , Swazi Air as 3D-AAV , Comair as ZS-IWL ; Ethiopian Air Lines as ET-AIA and then Comair as ZS-EKK . |
| 17 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 18 | The South India Railway was to be built as far as Ramaswaram and then connected to Ceylon by embankments and bridges . |
| 19 | I followed the Awash as far as Bilen and then turned eastwards across the desert to Afdam on the railway . |
| 20 | Therefore , unless hiking with considerable fortitude , the only way to approximate their journey is to take the normal road up as far as Invermoriston and then continue on its south-western fork , the A887 , and in time it becomes the road — or so I presume — ; Johnson and Boswell travelled , the one cut by General Wade , straight across the rising land and emerging a little over half-way along the present road through Glenmoriston . |