Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] then a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could hear Sorley thumping around inside and then a distinctive whine and a sort of humming stutter . |
| 2 | The band was down below and then a loft , a long wooden just like a dance hall up above and they just did that and they just they had tables set and then they removed them for the dances . |
| 3 | ( Tramp art is an old American form of folk art in which small pieces of wood are laid together and then a plaster cast taken . ) |
| 4 | ‘ Just once more and then a wound , an injury . |
| 5 | But because I was in like really really tight tights , er like and then a pair of ski pants over the top er , my whole leg was like , you know , sort of soaked in and this bloke was there going , hee , that 's pretty impressive and I was like , I 'm not going to let him know I was crying and like got up and went to the top of the slope and I carried on skiing for about an extra half an hour , but like when I got home , and I just took off , my whole leg started , feet swelling as I took the like , the tight like leggings off . |
| 6 | There were tough qualifying conditions in the heats : the first in each heat automatically and then a number of the fastest losers . |
| 7 | ‘ They did n't see anything because they were working in their little tent , ’ she went on , ‘ but they did hear someone hurrying past and then a car starting up a little way away . |
| 8 | Every now and then a straggling two-dimensional township , with its sign : BLOGGSVILLE CITY LIMIT . |
| 9 | Even when the tholoid is shrouded in mist and invisible , as it often is in the afternoon , the dry clattering continues , with every now and then a much larger collapse taking place . |
| 10 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |
| 11 | She moved to the door and glanced back , warming to her mother , it was not often she expressed affection or even concern , she was a hard woman who had lived a difficult life but now and then a little softness crept into Win Morgan 's eyes that betrayed the real woman beneath the stern exterior . |
| 12 | It was not that each child was continually talking but every now and then a child would speak to his neighbour or another would leave his place quietly and walk over to another child to speak with him . |
| 13 | In the distance Louise could hear the music from the rave and every now and then a shrill cry broke the night . |
| 14 | The sounds of the party were faint here , and now and then a few bars of melody drifted toward us . |
| 15 | Now and then a circulating pirate might come face to face with a Familo thug , and there would be some ritual snarling and glaring . |
| 16 | Now and then a door slammed , sending metallic echoes rolling along the corridors . |
| 17 | Even so , the air was full of spray and every now and then a drift of spume , like soap suds , whipped past on the wind . |
| 18 | Now and then a fine drizzle of sulphuric acid droplets may fall , plus other cloud particles , and the occasional thunderstorm high overhead can give a heavier rain . |
| 19 | Occasionally he heard the distant sound of traffic on the main road ; now and then a dog barked somewhere in the village . |
| 20 | Every now and then a dad would swagger in and talk to her with reverence but also with a certain courtly gaiety . |
| 21 | Every now and then a new game appears which sends the press wild with appraisal and is usually followed with a roaring applause at the ECTS annual awards ceremony . |
| 22 | Every now and then a jack pike would rupture the tranquillity as it marauded the easy pickings . |
| 23 | These birds , with now and then a solitary Rhynchops and frigate bird ( Tachypeles aquilus ) , were all of the feathered race that I observed in these heated latitudes , a part of the voyage which always hang heavily upon those destined to visit these distant regions ; by me , however , it was not so much felt , the monotony being relieved by the occasional occurrence of a whale , whose huge body rolled lazily by ; by a shoal of porpoises , which sometimes perform most amusing evolutions , throwing themselves completely out of the water , or gliding through it with astonishing velocity ; or by the occasional flight of the beautiful flying fish , when endeavouring to escape from the impetuous rush of the bonito or albacore . |
| 24 | At this time of night the street was quiet : the occasional car , and now and then a group of rowdy youths asserting their masculinity like stags in rut . |
| 25 | People will tell you there 's normality here and there is , but every now and then an abnormal thing happens which is quite horrific . |
| 26 | But my instructions for the lads have always been that if you go to a job for a lady particularly and then a man comes along and starts to get stroppy , you 'll have to explain to the lady you may have to leave it temporarily and go back . |
| 27 | What I 'd like to do is have an industry day then and then a parent 's invitation to see what the kids had done and a quick feedback . |
| 28 | Taking over the monastic premises , there and then a hurried council of war was called . |
| 29 | It 's a you do a two and half hour stretch there and then a two and a half hours stretch back it 's a |
| 30 | Two twelfths from there and then an extra twelfth how many have we got ? |