Example sentences of "[pron] then [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I then produced a master stroke . |
| 2 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |
| 3 | I then had a choice of going to either Cambridge or Stansted to take on fuel ready for the transit to the airshow the following day . |
| 4 | I then had a responsibility as the team leader to ensure that the rest of the house was secure and that none of the other units were having any problems . |
| 5 | I then had a party with all my new colleagues . |
| 6 | I then got a phone call in the middle of the night — I always get phone calls in the middle of the night from David . |
| 7 | Mr Hallam said : ‘ I then felt a kick in the face . |
| 8 | I then used a fingertip roughly to blend and spread them for a hazier and more subtle finish . |
| 9 | I then gave a message to his secretary personal assistant and was told no the letter I receive was that I should n't go through something third hand you do n't see what the other side is . |
| 10 | I then attached a ring to this line and connected it to Dawn 's leash . |
| 11 | I then did a physical which they made me run a mile and a half , did press ups , sit ups , which I passed . |
| 12 | For at seven o'clock in the morning of 20 August in that year , the inscription has it , just as the citadel was about to fall to the besiegers , a white cross was seen in the sky ‘ above and to the right of the town ’ , which then became a crucifix whose crown turned encouragingly ( for the French ) into a royal fleur-de-lis . |
| 13 | The rising was put down and so was the castle , which then became a source of building materials , a man-made quarry . |
| 14 | Instead his theory of social determination transformed the Kantian ‘ a priori ’ , the human capacity to reason , which then filled a role similar to Mannheim 's presuppositions available to social being . |
| 15 | She then ate a prawn fried in flour and egg , saying : ‘ I like that I had that last night . ’ |
| 16 | She then made a claim of unfair dismissal . |
| 17 | She then signed a form provided by the hospital , which was neither read nor explained to her , signifying her refusal of consent to blood transfusions . |
| 18 | She then got a factory job , earning between £30 and £40 , for four months . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ Unfortunately she then married a man who emotionally abandoned her as well . ’ |
| 20 | She then tried a government training course in shorthand and typing but , lacking confidence , ended up as a filing clerk . |
| 21 | The discussion groups ( Appendix II , section 5 ) show how easily a change for the worse in someone 's circumstances can lead to debt troubles : the man in hospital after an accident at work , who then had a breakdown , while overdue credit instalments mounted up to over £100 and led to a court summons ; the family who owed £30 a week on furniture and carpet instalments for their new flat — eventually taken to court after a series of lost jobs ; or ( Appendix III ) the previously secure young widow whose money troubles started when her husband died — although an understanding bank wrote off the outstanding balance on a car loan , a furniture firm refused to accept the reduced instalments which were all that she could afford . |
| 22 | The latter writes that he was a muderris in Bursa who then became a kadi , at which point Molla Fenari went to study under Kara Hoca in Iznik . |
| 23 | A tap-penalty try by Ian Campbell , who then kicked a penalty , put Bishops 7–0 ahead but the visitors scored a try before half-time to make it 7–4 . |
| 24 | Gower flicked Waqar to leg to raise the 300 , but Hick now went , yorked absolutely , almost embarrassingly , by Mr Younis , who then fired a yorker into Lewis 's boot . |
| 25 | It was a mightily relieved French who then issued a press statement to this effect . |
| 26 | In the second half , the play was very even erm Barry Cooper away on the left , he slipped the ball to Jason Allen who scored number three , Leach had to save a high shot from Nigel Chambers who then conceded a corner doing so , the nearest as they came to scoring , and looked down just at that stage . |
| 27 | Reality itself then became a construct of knowing and being known , and of living with the alternative possibility . |
| 28 | We then went a stage further and to share the technology established joint teams for each of these major areas , so that er the specification while it was under Dasa 's leadership , it was actually done by a joint team which involved expertise from British Aerospace and the other three and er therefore at that time the whole Eurofighter consortium was confident that they were making the best use of the available expertise across the four partner companies , each bringing to the table , their own so that they could go forward on a confident basis . |
| 29 | We then took a trip to the seaside on a cold , grey November day to meet the council and other interested bodies . |
| 30 | But we then took a view about , about future years because in a sense we 've always been , obviously had to provide for the er , year impression . |