Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] then a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have written very carefully descriptive material of what is really happening in the experiment and then a very succinct set of instructions — do this , do that , turn the left hand knob . |
| 2 | There is no serious dissent from the general proposition that we should have a system which combines a thorough examination of all individual claims , a clear exposition of the criteria against which they are being assessed , all proper speed and then a clear decision , whether positive or negative , and an effective right of appeal before removal for those whose claims have been rejected . |
| 3 | He watched the emotions play over her young face ; the stir of anger , the hint of disappointment and then a smile settled , hesitant , ravishing in its innocence . |
| 4 | when he was an Advocate and then a QC and Kate Mitchell , who works for Christies , because David succeeded her father , after his death , as Professor of European Governmental Studies before he , David , was recently promoted to the EC Judiciary . |
| 5 | During the 19th century , however , it fell on hard times , and was turned first into a warehouse and then a restaurant . |
| 6 | A big erm pitcher full of tea and then a basket tied on my back with the sandwiches and and the cake of scone my mother used to back more often . |
| 7 | Thieves broke into a garage at a house in Low Green , Great Ayton , and got into a Porsche car and then a BMW car and stole a £271 radio/cassette stereo from the BMW . |
| 8 | Oh yeah , it 's got a group of pleats and then a gap and then a group of pleats , mm . |
| 9 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 10 | The bruise was a dull , greenish sickle of shadow just under the cheek-bone and then a comma of purple on the side of the nose , as if Culley had been wearing ill-fitting glasses . |
| 11 | Do a range protect on that same range and then a range erase of that same range . |
| 12 | At last , jamming a fist and then a boot between rock and shrunken ice , I fingered a flake and heaved myself a cheval onto a sunlit stance , metres from the summit . |
| 13 | Revealing exceptional dexterity , he progressed rapidly to employment with a silversmith and then a bijoutier . |
| 14 | A week 's good work and then a week of drought , wrote Harsnet . |
| 15 | The thunder started as she reached the gate , a great crash and then a long roll of drums . |
| 16 | If the one we crossed this time was a steep climb and then a pleasant sweep into a warm green valley , and not the mountains of the moon , I was the better pleased , because although it was different it was also wonderful , and because I felt instinctively that the heights must be earned . |
| 17 | The first property company had gone into liquidation and it had been sold to a second and then a third . |
| 18 | Below it was a second and then a third such stone . |
| 19 | Leave to harden for about 24 hours before , if a very professional finish is required , applying a second and then a third thin coat . |
| 20 | When I asked him what for he gave a sad sigh and then a sort of bitter grin and looked me in the eye and said , ‘ Sexual harassment . ’ |
| 21 | ’ There was a long sigh and then a sobbing , and so desolate and so hopeless was the sound that the three listening minds were splintered with anguish . |
| 22 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |
| 23 | Actually , on stage it 's also mixed because I put one Fender cab on top and a Marshall cab on the bottom and then a Marshall cab on top and a Fender cab on the bottom . |
| 24 | and all curly at the top and all curly at the bottom and then a big bow be tied round the bottom . |
| 25 | In my own drama teaching I rarely use games with a class that I know well , but when I 'm working with a class that I 've not met before I often begin the session with a short concentration exercise and then a simple game . |
| 26 | There was an annexe beyond the corridor with two windows — blackened , impossible to decipher- and then a single door . |
| 27 | As they lay on the floor , he went at Pascoe with knees and elbows , everything uncoordinated , getting a blow in to the cheekbone and then a knee close enough to the groin to make Pascoe panic . |
| 28 | For the powerful winger , who became a Boro promotion hero and then a £1.3 million Blackburn buy in the summer , the homecoming was just too much . |
| 29 | Gorbachev , visiting Lithuania in January 1990 , had unexpectedly promised that legislation would be introduced allowing republics to become fully independent ; but the law on secession , approved on 3 April 1990 , specified a two-thirds majority in a referendum on the issue and then a transitional period of up to five years in which territorial , property and other issues would be resolved . |
| 30 | Some of us remember the old days when the NI was gloriously unpredictable — one month a short story taking up the whole magazine , the next a cartoon issue and then a bit later a fold-out world map . |