Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [conj] then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The road winds on to Arco de São Jorge and then goes in and round a deep ravine before it reaches Boaventura ( 65km ) . |
| 2 | Walter Legge liked to tell the story — I think as an example of both your musicianship and your tactical skills — that at the graduation class in Vienna you chose the Overture to Rossini 's Guillaume Tell and then sent everyone away except the cellos so you could show exactly what you could do with them in the opening bars of the piece . |
| 3 | I turned into Chiswell Street and then risked a look . |
| 4 | The Beatles sang : ‘ Let it be … ’ and had switched allegiance from the Maharishi to Mother Mary and then shocked the world by their final break-up , with John Lennon denouncing and renouncing all the Sixties had stood for , from Kennedy to the Beatles themselves . |
| 5 | At midnight they drank a toast to the New Year , joined hands to sing Auld Lang Syne and then returned to their cells . |
| 6 | It mounted the kerb , where it struck Miss Chui and then carried on to hit a fence and a lamp-post before coming to rest in the middle of Elmstead Road . |
| 7 | Between 1896 and 1902 Wolf did explore the possibility of co-operation with the Zionist leader Theodore Herzl but then moved sharply away from Zionism , which in his Encyclopaedia Britannica article he described as ‘ vitiated by its erroneous premises … the idea that anti-semitism is unconquerable ’ . |
| 8 | He 'd worked in Japan and married there , been bureau chief in South Africa and then taken over as the AP 's chief Middle East correspondent in Beirut . |
| 9 | Eazy-E 's attorney also says Sony engaged in money laundering by releasing productions by Dr Dre and then depositing ‘ the proceeds of the productions into an institution ’ . |
| 10 | HE insisted that the Church has never ruled that a priest should not have sex , only that he should not marry , ’ says Monika ( sic ) Kocanek by way of explaining how she ended up in bed with Fr Christopher O'Neill and then found herself pregnant . |
| 11 | Henry took the homage of the barons and knights of La Marche and then returned to Angers to celebrate Christmas . |
| 12 | The Cecil Cafe next door was run by Mr. Gray and then came The Goat public house , which after closure in 1927 became a hotch-potch of offices and workshops , used by small traders . |
| 13 | ‘ I was given a chauffeur-driven tour of Beverly Hills and then taken to the famous Sunset Marquee Hotel . ’ |
| 14 | SHARE prices in London shrugged off Monday 's sharp fall on Wall Street but then succumbed to fresh falls in New York late in the day . |
| 15 | They worked outward from the city to a point not far south of the Souk al-Gadira and then returned , thus making two sweeps of the river bank . |
| 16 | The strong-running midfielder burst through the middle on to Ray Houghton 's superb ball , rounded goalkeeper Bryan Gunn and then steadied himself to shoot from six yards . |
| 17 | At the Fine Art Society ( to 14 May ) , Gordon Cooke has organised an exhibition of Sutherland 's etchings from 1923 to 1938 , the formative period when he was influenced by Samuel Palmer and then began to forge his own style . |
| 18 | But true to the political contours of Lebanon and what is now Israel , I had to fly to Greece , then to Tel Aviv and then take a four-hour car journey to see it , a round-trip of almost a thousand miles . |
| 19 | Mrs Simpson can not leave Mr Simpson and then marry you . |
| 20 | ‘ I know , but she phoned for her results — she was surprised to get me , she seemed to have hoped you 'd be waiting by the phone — and when I told them you 'd gone , her mother took the phone and was in quite a tizz and had a word with Mr Fry and then said they 'd get the next plane home . |
| 21 | Also I mean er we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then picking it , instead of actually taking the whole thing because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been an exception in this entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much , er all three of you for coming points so clearly |
| 22 | They were to stand trial on charges of planning the death in 1976 of Orlando Letelier , a former ambassador to the United States and then Minister in the government of President Salvador Allende , and of Letelier 's secretary Ronnie Moffit [ see pp. 28273 ; 34989 ; 36097 ; July 38334-35 ] . |
| 23 | I noticed on your card she called him Daniel David and then behold he 's going to be just Daniel . |
| 24 | I can collect Miss Maynard from Liverpool Street and then drive us all down to Hillmarden together . ’ |
| 25 | When she returned to the house in late afternoon , Ellie 's determination to put a few pertinent questions to Mrs McMahon and then leave was thwarted — deliberately , probably — by Feargal , who was with his mother in the lounge . |
| 26 | We felt the same frustration when a British Oxfam worker , Peter Coleridge , was kidnapped in Beirut by Abu Nidal and then released within days , after pressure had been brought to bear by the aid agencies in Lebanon and Mustapha Saad . |
| 27 | Jack was a gingery Scottish communist normally domiciled in East Berlin but then teaching in Dar es Salaam . |
| 28 | She would stab de Raimes and then turn the blade on herself . |
| 29 | The next day I walked through a hazy , warm day up Gordale Scar to Seaty Hill and then followed the old monastic road of Mastiles Lane to Kilnsey in Wharfedale . |
| 30 | He was charged with the murder of Sara Hart and then escorted to Aylesbury Prison to await trial . |