Example sentences of "[noun sg] then [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 2 | The Works Brigade then returned to the purely domestic job of fire protection within the Works . |
| 3 | — a fear then forgotten but driven down into the subconscious ? |
| 4 | Hareston then passed through the female line for three generations to Alice de Hareston , who married John Wood . |
| 5 | Sorrels in general were used by the Greeks and Romans for medicinal purposes , and had some medicinal as well as culinary application in mediaeval Britain , but the English sorrel then used ( R. acetosa ) was replaced for culinary purposes by the French version and has been so used until the preset day . |
| 6 | The Association then decided to resort to direct action and staged an occupation of the administrative offices of three of the seven markets of San Salvador . |
| 7 | Her mother was still sleeping and Maureen hastily drank a cup of tea then returned to her ambulance . |
| 8 | 3 Play a game of football then put on your boots . |
| 9 | The priest then mingled with parishioners as they left church . |
| 10 | Gentle pipetting then released these cells leaving the remainder of the rudiment largely intact . |
| 11 | He called once more without result then advanced into the room . |
| 12 | The application was withdrawn and the drawing then acquired by the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , at £55,000 . |
| 13 | She disappeared back into her own compartment then returned with a glass of water and two paracetamol . |
| 14 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 15 | The delegation then moved on to South Cleveland Hospital . |
| 16 | The interview then moved on to the consideration of the Head of Department 's departmental work , but kept drifting back to his ambition for wider experience . |
| 17 | ( a ) less than the difference between the total vote then credited to the continuing candidate with the lowest recorded vote and the vote of the candidate with the next lowest recorded vote ; or |
| 18 | But it was a misreading to suppose that the vote then marked the high water mark on the issue . |
| 19 | Scheibler is also exhibiting two major watercolours by Joe Zucker , born in Chicago in 1941 and resident in East Hampton : ‘ Backdrops ’ , meaning sketches for his works , in which Zucker , a ‘ painter without a brush ’ , uses woollen socks , gloves , or a ski-mask to apply globs of paint on wood , the calligraphic effect then overlaid with networks of cables . |
| 20 | The applicant then applied to the High Court for judicial review of these decisions . |
| 21 | The huddle of noisy stalls in the back streets were a clamour of life and colour , selling diamanté , silk ribbons , radios , clothes , dead fish sliced up on cold slabs , snakes split down the middle , innards steaming on the bloodied stone floors , live birds in cages , killed with a hammer then plucked and sold , and thousand-year-old eggs streaked black and white with gaudy orange centres . |
| 22 | George fumbled out the little pinhole torch and watched as Maxim delicately smeared a film of shoe polish on the end of his key then probed ag in and immediately withdrew it to study the marks on the polish . |
| 23 | The defendant then selected one of them and then sold the set to that person for one penny . |
| 24 | The defendant then prepared and submitted to the manager of the shop , Mr. Gilberd , a list of goods to the value of £7,950 , telling him that the list represented a bona fide order placed by one Johal and asking him to authorise the supply of the goods against a building society cheque for that amount . |
| 25 | Initially delivered to the RAAF it was sold in 1946 to the Tasmanian Aero Club then passed to South Australia Aerial Spraying in 1954 as a crop duster . |
| 26 | The police restricted the parade to the Falls area and the organising committee then called it off so as to avoid compromising the principle of working-class unity . |
| 27 | The Central Committee then circulated to the Serbian Party a document which was to form the basis of compulsory discussions in all party organizations , with the accompanying demand that there should be a ‘ differentiation ’ . |
| 28 | Gatting in particular had had a good series , batting well and leading the team excellently ; with the first Test then drawn under his leadership , how different the rest of the summer might have been had he not invited the famous barmaid to his room . |
| 29 | The dynamic campaign then waged under his command during the late summer of 1936 drew him into the spotlight as Nationalist Spain 's most successful general . |
| 30 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |