Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] then [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , from the top of the bank , Buckthorn flung himself headlong into the scuffle , knocked one of the guards flying with a kick from his back legs and then closed with the other . |
| 2 | The houses were subdivided by the Jews and then subdivided again by the Bengalis . |
| 3 | The Australians just needed three ends to take the third set with a 7-0 whitewash and then confined the New Zealanders to just three singles , one in the fourth set and two in the last , to complete a 1-7 , 7-6 , 7-0 , 7-1 , 7-2 win . |
| 4 | Three times last week cars were stolen by reckless drivers and then set on fire . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's A Game ’ , ‘ Money Honey ’ , ‘ Shang A Lang ’ and , um , a lot of padding from the Rollers ' post ‘ 77 career after they 'd been shot down in flames , plucked , shucked , gutted , roasted , eaten , shat out and buggered in the back of the neck and then locked in the attic with Mad Auntie Maude from Nottingham for two weeks by the ultimate manufactured band , the Sex Pistols . |
| 6 | The lead only stood until the end of the first half , however , as Mutineers ' Lyn Knowles was fouled shooting and then scored from the resulting penalty . |
| 7 | Conference rooms were equipped at great expense and then torn out as views on best practice changed ( Lee , et al. 1988 ) . |
| 8 | An infant suspected of having pyloric stenosis would usually be assessed by a house officer in the casualty department and then referred for a surgical consultation . |
| 9 | We went to another department and then returned to the shoe section where a different clerk was able , after 10 minutes , to find the shoes . |
| 10 | I went away and made tea and then sent off my Christmas cards , only not James 's . |
| 11 | Yeah well even if they came sort of late afternoon , turn up about fiveish and had a a bit of tea and then spent the evening with you that wo n't be too bad would it ? |
| 12 | Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate . |
| 13 | The Totteridges asserted that they had read till eleven on Friday and then gone to bed . |
| 14 | They would argue that the input should not be segmented into primitive units and then matched against the lexical representation . |
| 15 | He was handed over to local army units and then driven around in an armoured car for three days to prevent Securitate units discovering his whereabouts . |
| 16 | As is so often the case in Paisley 's career , the crucial step was taken by someone other than Paisley and then offered to Paisley as an opportunity the possibilities of which he could appreciate . |
| 17 | ‘ I still ca n't believe you , ’ he remarked , but he washed anyway and he dried himself on the piece of hessian and then spat on his hands and flattened his hair . |
| 18 | Arrival times were obtained by convolution of the pulses with an appropriate template and then corrected for the Earth 's motion using the JPL DE200 barycentric ephemeris . |
| 19 | This information is run through Home Office computers and then left on police computers . |
| 20 | He looked at me , calmly threw his jacket into the car and then launched into what I can only describe as the most unbelievable martial arts display I have ever seen . |
| 21 | During the war he joined the Police force and then worked at Telfers Pie Factory before opening his own business — the Wimbledon Health Food Stores , with his wife , Joan . |
| 22 | The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people . |
| 23 | The tissue was fixed using Brunnels primary fixative ( Laboratory Supplies and Instruments , Antrim , UK ) , processed by conventional methods and then embedded in paraffin . |
| 24 | WE met Therese and then unpacked and had tea . |
| 25 | The exhibition ‘ Al-Andalus : the art of Islamic Spain ’ was first shown at the Alhambra in Granada last spring and then moved to the Met over the summer . |
| 26 | A thin rubber rod is wound round a cylinder to create the shape of a spring and then frozen in this shape using liquid nitrogen . |
| 27 | He built a fortune in the construction industry and then moved to Highfields Stables in the village of Adstone just north of Banbury and took up training . |
| 28 | This was put through the confusion simulator and then used as input to the overlap program . |
| 29 | The idea of ‘ half-way ’ houses , where discharged patients lived for a year or eighteen months and then moved to ordinary independent living , became fashionable in the 1960s . |
| 30 | Some of the young calves are fattened on the farms but many are reared for a few months and then sold for fattening in central or eastern Britain . |