Example sentences of "[noun pl] then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pondered his words then glanced at the pay phone in the corner of the bar . |
| 2 | She pondered his words then got to her feet . |
| 3 | If you recognise such words then explore the sentences around them . |
| 4 | The pagans then got ready for battle , but in vain against the people of God . |
| 5 | erm carrots then do n't we ? |
| 6 | Following a visit to Washington by Taylor-Morgan in early 1990 , talks resumed with the IMF , aimed at negotiating the introduction of an IMF programme from September and the restoration of financing eligibility , which had been suspended in April 1988 due to arrears then totalling US$55,000,000 [ see p. 36754 ] . |
| 7 | Some entrepreneurial showmen then decided they would try to make money out of his popularity and they caught him with the hope of transporting him to London to put on display . |
| 8 | The source of the apparent opposition between these two styles then becomes evident . |
| 9 | Although the centrally devised programme which all elementary schools then followed was not abolished until 1926 , the freedom given to state school teachers to devise their own methodology to suit the school 's particular needs was a radical innovation . |
| 10 | If there is no particular justification for these categories , and they appear to be somewhat arbitrary , what faith can schools then have in them as a basis for review ? |
| 11 | The bats then erupted from their roosts like all the demons of hell , screaming , whirling and excreting partly digested fruit over the full length and height of the ship . |
| 12 | A series of complex activation steps then occurs which changes the state of the target cells . |
| 13 | Pakistan scored a paltry 139 all out in 47.4 overs and the Kiwis then charged to 140-4 with 7.2 overs to spare . |
| 14 | Unlike most of the other 2,000 pension funds then operating in America , the GM fund did not principally invest in the company 's own shares nor limit itself to fixed-income securities . |
| 15 | He took a couple of paces then stopped , twisting round . |
| 16 | As soon as you can walk well , try some very gentle jogging , running a few paces then walking . |
| 17 | The administering of specialised intravenous solutions then forms the next phase of the procedure , where similarity to embalming techniques is most pronounced . |
| 18 | If representations depend on single units then changes in single cell electrical activity or overall metabolic activity can be fairly easily related to the function of the systems concerned ( Barlow 1985 ) . |
| 19 | The main aim of British units then became to prevent these crossing the River Drau . |
| 20 | However , students of this process have pointed out that these new organizations then face problems about there relationships to older agencies . |
| 21 | Two police cars then arrived and shortly afterwards they broke into the pub . |
| 22 | The cars then travelled south on the A1 before turning off for Ripon . |
| 23 | He seemed to be fighting with himself as he lay there , banging his fist to his head , clenching up his legs then shooting them out straight . |
| 24 | He won his first gold medal , plus two silvers and two bronzes then learned he had been named Darlington 's young sports-winner of the month in the award scheme aided by the North of England Building Society . |
| 25 | Believers then follow the practice of the person who stubs his foot on a stone and looks upwards with the cry , ‘ Oh God ! ’ as if hoping for some sympathetic supernatural spectator to be looking down on what is happening . |
| 26 | The baiters then used a hand-held detector to trace the movements underground . |
| 27 | Primarily , it proved to be no faster than contemporary piston engined fighters then flying , it was a poor gun platform due to a tendency to ‘ snake ’ while in flight and its range suffered from high fuel consumption . |
| 28 | Six fighters then passed over but made no attempt to strafe . |
| 29 | The two fighters then stand at attention awaiting instructions to begin . |
| 30 | Upon noticing this curious coincidence , the gentlemen then gained an ambition to visit the three villages in question — in honour , as it were , of the music hall artistes . |