Example sentences of "and then [prep] his own " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the successive phases of his career — at Gainsborough , Gaumont-British and then at his own Ealing Studios — he was to show that his talent lay in finding the most talented people available , giving them the best context to work in , inspiring and stimulating their efforts and intervening where necessary to ensure that the best possible film came out of the production process . |
| 2 | In 1929 he went into management with Lady Mary Wyndham [ q.v. ] and then on his own . |
| 3 | His most important contract ( first with another carpenter , John Ball , and then on his own ) was for the deepening and wharfing of the Fleet ditch , an enormous task which employed 200 men , took two and a half years to finish ( 1672–4 ) , and brought him a gift of plate worth £200 from the City on its efficient completion . |
| 4 | A large assembly of bishops and priests declared that Lothar lacked " the knowledge of how to govern the state " , and had fled " by a just Judgement of God , first from the battle-field and then from his own realm " . |
| 5 | The originator of this research was the maverick James McConnell , at Ann Arbor , Michigan , who in a series of papers during the 1960s , first in conventional scientific journals and then in his own publication , the exotically named Worm-Runners Digest , reported experiments in which flatworms , trained by pairing light with electric shock , were chopped up and other , ‘ naïve ’ ( that is , untrained ) worms allowed to cannibalize them . |