Example sentences of "[coord] then [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved to London , becoming a law clerk and then confidential man of business to Sir Robert Rich , second Earl of Warwick [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | At one of these the Bishop of Ostia recalled the highlights of the evening when ‘ fifty reputable whores , not common but the kind called courtesans , supped … and after supper they danced about with the servants and others in the place , first in their clothes and then nude … chestnuts were strewn about and naked courtesans on hands and feet gathered them up , wriggling in and out among the candelabra … |
| 3 | Back on the white(ish) stuff , John Welford made the second ascent of Simon Nadin 's 1987 testpiece Gonads giving it F8a+ , and then red-pointed Out of my Tree at Raven Tor as a warm down . |
| 4 | Pies and then frozen stuff , Bird 's Eye , we used to deal with . |
| 5 | Their recent odds have been slashed from 5-2 to 7-4 and then 6-4 yesterday . |
| 6 | And then Duvall-stood forward , placed the barrel of the automatic on the back of Frye 's head … and blew his brains out . |
| 7 | All histological material , both from the first cystoscopy and the second cystoscopy , was sent both to the local pathologist and then representative sections sent to the reference pathologist . |
| 8 | Well we used to er get Jersey potatoes and things like that and then new potatoes . |
| 9 | She was followed by another , and then another , and then many . |
| 10 | The policeman 's note had promised action some time during the next two or three days , which could no doubt be split into a fraction of a second for a data check to establish that Sampson was a worthy and responsible citizen and neither a pervert nor a dangerous lefty , and then many hours of waiting in a paper tray to be shunted and shuffled and finally put into an envelope . |
| 11 | And then two human torsos appeared in the distance . |
| 12 | He won two novice hurdles by wide margins in his first campaign , and then two novice chases the following winter before running away with the County Hurdle at Cheltenham from a field which included the smart mare Travel Mystery . |
| 13 | From here , a turn down to the left leads to High Birkwith and then two miles of uneventful tarmac , heading south to the starting point of the walk at Horton . |
| 14 | But because of the history of secondary education as clerkly and classical , suitable for future members of the ‘ learned professions ’ , the division was encapsulated in the division between three , and then two , types of school . |
| 15 | There were voices outside and then two heavily-built Algerians came striding in , each wearing an astrakhan hat and a sheepskin car-coat . |
| 16 | Ahead there was marriage to a man I dearly love , the birth of a daughter and then two sons , and a full and happy family life . |
| 17 | I was filming Neighbours five days a week and then two or three nights a week we were gigging . ’ |
| 18 | Running well in the race , just behind Regazzoni , first Hunt 's engine faded for three seconds , stranding him behind Depailler , and then two laps later , when he was trying to overtake Depailler on the outside , Depailler moved over and blew Hunt into the wall . |
| 19 | Once again , start with the largest flowers and place one at the top and one at the bottom of the design , and then two staggered in the middle . |
| 20 | We scored an away goal and then two at home , and I feel perhaps we should have done a bit better . ’ |
| 21 | We went from one corner of the country to another and we stayed in palaces and magnificent hotels and played in beautiful little theatres , and then two weeks later , we 'd be in a dark bungalow with cockroaches and snakes in the loo , where they had desks tied together with string for a stage . |
| 22 | These were followed by two more , whoosh whoosh , and then two more , whoosh whoosh , and they must surely be coming , Little Billy told himself , from the two nose-holes of some galloping panting beast that had smelled him out and was coming after him . |
| 23 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 24 | Six years ago he added two home-made diesel shunters to the operation and then two years ago embarked on an even more ambitious project … two narrow gauge steam loco 's designed from scratch , for the line . |
| 25 | ‘ That meant we had to send two trains up in the morning and bring them back and then two more in the afternoon and bring them back . |
| 26 | The old man did n't turn up for a week , and then two weeks and then three weeks and everybody was fairly in despair . |
| 27 | Six rounds after these three attack , two more will appear 12 yards from the arch , and then two more each three rounds thereafter . |
| 28 | On the following Tuesday he had tickets for the much-acclaimed Lear at the National , and then two days later a seat in the stalls for the revival of Turandot at the Coliseum . |
| 29 | Many of his public obligations were thoroughly familiar — on 12 May , for example , he gave an address at the University of Sheffield and then two weeks later received the Dante Gold Medal at the Italian Institute — but other duties were more painful to perform . |
| 30 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |