Example sentences of "way [conj] then the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean oh use to run it length ways and then the width is fixed is n't it ? |
| 2 | Then the alley curved sharply , first one way and then the other , and it seemed to Frankie that he would be trapped in that sinister place for ever . |
| 3 | These engaged with a toothed wheel ( driven by a weight suspended from a drum ) which pushed the verge first one way and then the other , causing the foliot to oscillate . |
| 4 | He , as a rag doll , contorted , controlled by invisible strings , jerked one way and then the other and the sewer filled up high , not a half-foot from the top of the walls , so that his tumble , when he fell into the swamp , it was more a plop than a splash . |
| 5 | Always aim to look first one way and then the other , move both head and shoulders together in the direction in which you want to look ; avoid turning the head . |
| 6 | Circle your hips slowly and rhythmically , first one way and then the other |
| 7 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
| 8 | This route follows the former Innocent Railway for part of the way and then the Niddrie Burn to Brunstane . |
| 9 | Wright 's second strike — surely a candidate for goal of the season — saw him turn Everton defender Matthew Jackson first one way and then the other before lofting the ball over the head of Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall in the 78th minute . |
| 10 | ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Again erm the game was to and fro , see-sawing one way and then the other , erm quite an exciting game to the uncommitted considering there were no goals scored erm in about the seventieth minute , Neil Sibble , he took the ball from the half way line on an individual run , but after beating two defenders his shot was well saved by Harding . |