Example sentences of "then [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke then records a story about Jesus visiting the capital city for the feast of Passover at the age of twelve . |
| 2 | This is accomplished by first differentiating the freewheeling current signal and then using a comparator to find the time instants at which there is 110 change of current . |
| 3 | Such considerations lead to the idea that the way non-words are read is by first dividing them up into their graphemes ( CHOOPH-CH + OO + PH or SLOATCH — S + L + OA + TCH ) and then using a table of grapheme-phoneme correspondence rules to find the appropriate phoneme for each grapheme . |
| 4 | McDermott takes off the top of a zombie 's head with a shovel — done with a trick shovel by reversing the action , then using a dummy in long shot . |
| 5 | If you produce a pie chart of each week 's figures for Ms X and a histogram of the figures for Mr Y , then using a template is much more efficient . |
| 6 | Gore then devised a plan to burn down the house , destroying any forensic evidence he might have left behind . |
| 7 | The other , the other weakness it possibly turned up is that , my experience is that , unless something bad there , the press do n't really want to do anything about it , if you 're just trying to sell your wares and say how good you are , and then hide a bit behind , I mean they 'll turn around anyway the circle , must be something . |
| 8 | The budget-holder ( i.e. the person who is responsible for cost control against budgeted work content ) then produces a budget in the agreed format . |
| 9 | In this area he builds first a small depression by removing mouthfuls of sand and then produces a nest from weeds which are coated with a sticky substance so that they can be moulded with his snout . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Bell Resources is a crucial element in the deal , since Mr Bond planned to sell it his Australian brewing interests — including Castlemaine XXXX — and then launch a bid for the enlarged group with the backing of Lion Nathan . |
| 12 | On 20 March 1989 papers were served on him and he then consulted a solicitor for the first time . |
| 13 | He then consulted a notebook . |
| 14 | She said , ‘ Wallace Ellwood is the most evil person I 've ever met , ’ then wiped a hand across her face as if his name had fouled her mouth . |
| 15 | Everything needing a temporary home found its way into the stable and then became a permanency . |
| 16 | This delightful timber-framed listed building was once the medieval home of six priests , and then became a rectory , which it remained until 1840 . |
| 17 | In 1941 he qualified as a parachutist and then became a founder member of the Indian Airborne Unit : he was Brigade Major of 50 Brigade , then commanded 152 Battalion , and later 77 Indian Parachute Brigade . |
| 18 | Her importer , E. Palmguist , then became a founder member of the Norwegian Rottweiler Club which was founded in 1933 . |
| 19 | The kitchen then became a hive of industry , with the fat being cut up and rendered for lard , kept in a big earthenware pot . |
| 20 | It is at this point that the historical link between the novel and the written text began to be lost sight of ; the highly unrealistic convention of the omniscient third person narrator then became a realist norm . |
| 21 | The book which he wrote was circulated to the English universities and he then became a member of a mission to Italy to press the divorce on the Pope . |
| 22 | The term then became a nonsense . |
| 23 | The bone which in lizards conducts sound from the ear-drum to the inner ear originated as the hind border of a gill slit in a fish , and then became a strut bracing the jaw articulation to the skull , before it acquired its present function . |
| 24 | She became a teacher at Lowood , as you did , and then became a governess in the house of a certain Mr Rochester . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In 1898 he worked for some months in Naples on the evolution of small sharks , and then became a demonstrator in the natural history department of St Andrews University . |
| 27 | It then became a committee affair , with monthly meetings starting in February . |
| 28 | It then became a part of Lewisham , but obtained a separate entity as an Urban District on the 15 May 1900 . |
| 29 | Originally a concert hall in which Liszt played and Dickens read , Cork 's Assembly Rooms then became a cinema . |
| 30 | a funny thing the , the chappy who you know erm was in the Neighbours and then became a pop star and all the rest |