Example sentences of "then [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | They then agreed on a communiqué reaffirming " their commitment to contribute actively to a settlement of the other problems of the region " and inviting Aziz to Luxembourg . |
| 2 | Consultants were brought in to coach team leaders , themselves working members of the unit , who then passed on their new-found knowledge — the cascade concept . |
| 3 | Then strew on water and make the people drink . |
| 4 | The first meeting place was above a cafe in Newgate Street in the City of London , but this did not prove satisfactory and they then met on a weekly basis at another cafe near Marble Arch . |
| 5 | She married John Hymes , also of Chester , and then lived on a series of farms in this area and in Kent and Lincolnshire . |
| 6 | What they got — and I hope they then choked on their own bile in the process — was a performance that enabled English football to hold its head high again . |
| 7 | Mr. Cowan then laid on the table the fifty volumes from Cassells Library which he presented to the Society . |
| 8 | He then laid on a wonderful cross a minute later for McCann to blast past Brendan Keeley . |
| 9 | I woke Laura , then shouted on the guys to waken them . |
| 10 | The objective defined in 1858 was to enable ‘ persons requiring medical aid … to distinguish qualified from unqualified practitioners ’ and we need only read some early issues of the Lancet to learn that the medical register was regarded at the time as a list of doctors who set themselves higher standards than the multitude of quacks who then preyed on the sick . |
| 11 | He was directed towards a glider landing strip , but he appears to have clipped a tree and then crashed on farmland . |
| 12 | He was directed towards a glider landing strip , but he appears to have clipped a tree and then crashed on farmland . |
| 13 | She attempted to restore some order to her tousled hair with her fingers , then stroked on a little blusher to counteract at least a little of her pallor ; but there was little she could do to repair the ravages of the night , and finally she turned away with a heavy sigh . |
| 14 | No , he came out for about ten minutes then he said I 'm going back in the house mummy , just then flopped on the chair |
| 15 | The cameraman then came on board and we left the quay ; we returned and he transferred to a motor boat to film us leaving the quay . |
| 16 | Pilgrims then came on foot and horseback for hundreds of miles across many countries to pay homage to these relics and churches were erected along the routes to such pilgrimage centres . |
| 17 | The plaintiffs also appealed against the decision of taxing master right , er and then appealed on the basis that er there should be no disallowance for any interest at all . |
| 18 | I then played on ‘ The Fox ’ , which was one of his least successful albums ! |
| 19 | The two girls swam until they were tired , then lazed on beach towels on the grass under the palm trees . |
| 20 | He told the court : ‘ It shut slowly and then slammed on my finger … it cut off the top of my ring finger . ’ |
| 21 | Dr. Leadbetter then commented on the other side of the coin ; the problems of under-funding were to some extent compensated for by the rewards of hard earned success . |
| 22 | The man then piddled on her until she was soaking wet . |
| 23 | He then turned on the assembled crowd and mounted a scathing verbal attack on them . |
| 24 | He was received in a friendly fashion by the master of a French Basque ship of St Jean-de-Luz , who then turned on him , imprisoned him and his men , and stripped the Pilgrim of all but a minimum of food and sails . |
| 25 | He then turned on Chlothar , but his own death , from dysentery , and the subsequent elimination of his family in 613 , led to the reunification of the Frankish kingdom and brought to a close one period of Merovingian civil war . |
| 26 | Mademoiselle swept the desk with a searching glance and then turned on poor Mary-Lou . |
| 27 | He turned the bread over to grease its upper side , then climbed on a stool to cut another thick wedge from the loaf . |
| 28 | Perversely , in the way of Customs Officers , we insisted but gave him ten minutes to clear up , then climbed on board to see to the necessary documentation . |
| 29 | The architect then showed on paper what he thought would meet those needs , with both of them relying on the practical knowledge and experience of the builder to know how the works would have to be carried out . |
| 30 | He saw me standing there waiting in the warm light from the cafe and hesitated a second , then walked on a few paces , then stopped and looked back . |