Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [coord] then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BURGLAR stole a hi-fi from a house in Sunderland and then ordered a taxi to take it home . |
| 2 | The exhibition continues until 3 January in Brighton and then transfers to York City Art Gallery from 23 January until 7 March . |
| 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 | Thus laden , I rode the 20 miles to Picton and caught the ferry ; stayed overnight in Wellington and then took the train to Auckland — no problems in putting the bike aboard ; and this journey lived up to expectations and surpassed them ; the scenery through the ‘ King Country ’ in autumn is quite unrivalled , and again looks like a superb area for a cycle tour . |
| 5 | Birth records have been obtained for the 42 children with cancer diagnosed up to the age of 4 years throughout Cumbria during 1984–90 in order to investigate the possibility that some of these children had been born in Seascale and then moved , but in fact only the child resident in Seascale at diagnosis was also domiciled there at birth . |
| 6 | You need one of those slave-driving old studio bosses if you ask me , not a sensitive graduate who went into movies because he liked the clouds in Antonioni and then turned himself into a nouvelle vague Deutscher all hot for Truthspiel . |
| 7 | It sounds slightly improbable that my right hon. Friend will be called to a meaningful debate on Scottish constitutional matters in the near future , but will he assure Conservative Members that were he to be so he is fully aware that people in England would take it amiss if any proposition were seriously entertained which allowed Scottish Members to decide matters in Scotland and then to have a say in English matters in England ? |
| 8 | Portugal , with star winger Paulo Futre back in the side after being dropped , will have been encouraged by Italy 's recent poor form which saw them held to a goalless draw in Scotland and then struggle to overcome Malta 2-1 . |
| 9 | Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay in 1947 , went to school in England and then studied at Cambridge . |
| 10 | In 1974 I was at the National Theatre doing Shakespeare with Sir John Gielgud and whenever there was a play it was in repertory form , so another play came on and I had five days off , so I 'd fly to Toronto , have a three day ‘ loon ’ in Canada and then come back . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He began early , in Bangkok and then Dubai , had a week 's work-out with David Leadbetter in Orlando and then followed it with four straight tournaments coming into the Masters . |
| 14 | May 14 Baker holds talks with King Hussein in Jordan and then travels overland to East Jerusalem where he meets with a three-member Palestinian delegation headed by Husseini . |
| 15 | He was always punctilious ; she did not have a diary ; today must be the day she had thought so far off when he had proposed meeting Kit and Astrid in Paris and then taking all of them out for lunch . |
| 16 | One major difference in the auction business between America and Britain is the amount of travelling that one does : in one week one may do an ‘ appraisal day ’ ( the equivalent of the British Antiques Road Show ) in Pennsylvania and then go on to look at a dinner service in Baltimore . |
| 17 | He greeted Corbett warmly , ensured that the garron was safely returned to its stable in Inverkeithing and then rowed Corbett out across the Forth . |
| 18 | Subsequently , and very shortly after having written that letter , the father sought legal advice in Australia and then took the steps which eventually led to the issue of this originating summons . |
| 19 | came to , asked for a briefing on what we did in Estonia and then said , can we give you seventy thousand pounds so you can spend on projects in Estonia , so they got seventy thousand pounds off your Government . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the hostages were to be transferred to a safe house in Cyprus and then spirited away by sea . |
| 21 | The idea was that I 'd go for a fortnight but when I got there she gave me the bum 's rush so I spent a couple of miserable days in France and then hared it back to England . |
| 22 | Apart from the inherent improbability that trained intelligence agents would simply add an armed suitcase bomb tagged for New York-JFK to a pile of international luggage waiting to be loaded in Luqa and then trust to luck that , unescorted , the bomb would get through the baggage-handling and security arrangements of two other major airports and be loaded aboard the target aircraft before the timer triggered an explosion , there remained the problem with the provenance and reliability of the Frankfurt baggage-list that was said to have identified the suitcase in the first place . |
| 23 | New Zealand 's victory — their first home Test win for three years — levelled the series at 1-1 after Australia won the first Test by an innings and 60 runs in Christchurch and then drew the second in Wellington . |
| 24 | Nor could he have returned to power without the machinations of devoted supporters who worked to foment unrest in Algeria and then to channel it in his favour . |
| 25 | He could fly on to Travis Air Force base in California and then take a helicopter to the Annenberg estate . |
| 26 | She 'd have been stuck in some noisy complex in Pollensa and then had to drive back to Palma to do his share of the work . |
| 27 | As soon as the passport came through , Coleman should wait for the first convenient lull in the fighting in Beirut and then leave immediately . |
| 28 | So where Bangladeshis spent periods of time in the United Kingdom interspersed with periods in Bangladesh and then brought their families to the United Kingdom , took temporary accommodation , and then applied to be treated as a homeless person , it was held that the local authority was entitled to refuse them . |
| 29 | This operation ( 1960 ) seriously delayed him , for it left one eye permanently damaged , and he was in the Purey-Cust nursing home by the minster in York and then had a convalescence of several weeks . |
| 30 | 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 . |