Example sentences of "[coord] then as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try saying big glass as you would say big game and then as you would say big deal . |
| 2 | In the novel itself we meet the Russian people , the folk , only once , and then as inflictors of suffering , in Raskolnikov 's half-dream ( which is also half-memory ) of a little mare being tortured and finally clubbed to death by drunken peasants . |
| 3 | Jack heard him whistling , ‘ Mabel dear , listen here ’ under the stars and then as the shadow was absorbed and lost in the many tree shadows , the whistle too faded and there was no sound but the gentle chatter of the stream , the Kingsbrook that flowed everlastingly over its bed of thin round stones . |
| 4 | England began slowly , and then as Gatting and Gooch were accelerating they both fell in quick succession . |
| 5 | Oz edged carefully down the slope , crouching every now and then as he reached a little bilberry bush . |
| 6 | Lamond was talking to some people and then as he was leaving he came by me and said , ‘ But , you know , it was n't all as beautiful as you might imagine ! ’ |
| 7 | She explains : ‘ I take a very deep breath before I get on the plane and then as soon as I am on board I get out all my make-up and put it on the table in front of me and spend hours putting it on . |
| 8 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |
| 9 | Of course , he also had to be ready with a word or two of encouragement now and then as well . |
| 10 | Every organism continues to grow till it has reached its peak and then as its growth stops , deterioration sets in . |
| 11 | Finally , on an in-breath , let the hands come in and then as you breathe out , let the arms float down to your sides . |
| 12 | Her cries of ‘ Look , that 's my mum , ’ are greeted by a stunned silence and then as one the phlegmatic Londoners rise from their seats and … rush from the compartment ! |
| 13 | ‘ Friar Tuck told me of you , ’ he said ; and then as though it might be a password to their confidence he added : ‘ He told me that you hunt the unicorn . ’ |
| 14 | Her jaw is removed , and then as the disease spreads she loses an eye . |
| 15 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
| 16 | They considered the saleability of a washstand , a swinging mirror , a flowered pottery basin and jug , and then as they descended by the back stairs , the plates in dull red and dark blue and gold glaze that hung on the wall there and might , from the hieroglyphs on their backs , possibly be Chinese and perhaps valuable . |
| 17 | The excess moisture vapour in the air condenses into droplets of water , and these are deposited on the cold surface , first as a fine film that mists up the glass , and then as more moisture is deposited , the droplets combine to form rivulets that run down the surface to form those tell-tale pools of water on window sills and the like , sometimes ruining decoration , and causing window sills and frames to rot and rust . |
| 18 | If we wish to reflect on the nature of the body we must in succession examine the body first as being-for-itself and then as being-for-others . |
| 19 | They all insist on the centrality of Jesus , but incline then to explain that centrality in terms of something more general or universal , which is thought of as exemplified in him , and then as spreading out from him and moving on through history . |
| 20 | The scene was set for a movie genius but what was important for the history of the movies was that the genius who emerged to push the medium and the industry into a new era was a self-educated romantic whose values and ideas had not been provided by any distinctive intellectual tradition or urban political party but rather had emerged first out of his Southern , rural , Methodist past and then as he had drifted through a rapidly changing America . |
| 21 | It grew in two ways : initially , as more people got TV sets , and then as programme hours increased . |
| 22 | Both Margaret Thatcher and James Callaghan , for instance , had worked their way up through the structure of party ; they had spent a lifetime in politics and had served long periods of apprenticeship , first as backbenchers and then as junior ministers , ministers and shadow cabinet members . |
| 23 | Dismissed from the Albertina because of his German nationality , he then worked for the Graphische Sammlung , Munich , until 1971 as a curator and then as director . |
| 24 | His true capacities are tested , first as he battles with the rest of the crew against a fire in the cargo of coal and then as one of the holding crew on the tanker Arno , found badly holed and abandoned and taken into tow . |
| 25 | ‘ Scroungers ’ did exist , irresistibly when many were poor and charity was to be had sometimes merely for attending a church service ; and then as now there was a flourishing mythology of great sums inveigled from charity by shrewd layabouts . |
| 26 | We drove down the Angel Bank skirting Ludlow , and then as we turned into Corvedale the sun came out and it cleared … |
| 27 | Similarly , the course of improvement from infectious illnesses accompanied by fever has been commonly held to be intimately connected with sleeping , so that a fever typically " breaks " during the night , while the temperature reaches a maximal high , and then as it reverts to near-normal the patient falls into a deep restorative sleep . |
| 28 | And then as we were running out Silver said to Cowslip , " Surely you 're coming ? " |
| 29 | And then as you know , no statement our , our Christian truth can never be encapsulated in any one statement . |
| 30 | It is not an over-simplification to describe the industrial experience of the inter-war years in terms of moth balling until about 1936 and then as hell-for-leather toward war . |