Example sentences of "and then [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the hall he gave the dog a command which saw Azor trot off somewhere , and then Ven was striding towards the drawing-room door . |
| 2 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 3 | In later childhood , these emotions may well be repressed , as parents and then teachers attempt , by a variety of means , to socialize young people . |
| 4 | Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place . |
| 5 | Retiring in 1959 after a year 's extension , Macpherson continued to be active in public life , as chairman of Cable and Wireless Ltd. ( 1962–7 ) , deputy and then chairman of the Basildon Development Corporation ( 1960–7 ) , vice-president of the Royal Commonwealth and the Royal African Societies , and , from 1962 , vice-chairman of the advisory committee on distinction awards for consultants . |
| 6 | A former priest , he hit the headlines as secretary and then chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . |
| 7 | Later we tried wire netting over the sluice and then mesh screens which rested each side and after a heavy snowfall collapsed into it , unable to bear the weight . |
| 8 | All that has to be stored in my brain is ‘ If you want coffee , and are at A , go to C , and then D , and then E. ’ |
| 9 | And then Lorna started . |
| 10 | Yeah Huh and then Lorna went on and then |
| 11 | So I put Aunty Iris and then Lorna then you . |
| 12 | One last thought on the subject and then basta : they — Moss and McGrindle , etc. |
| 13 | and then scrum-half Bruce Fenley rounded off another charge with the second try … 14-6 at half-time … |
| 14 | The procedure was that Private Boyd handed us each a belt complete with pistol holster and ammo pouches and then Sergeant Waters launched each of us through the door with a pat on the shoulder , telling us we had one minute 's start . |
| 15 | ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat . |
| 16 | Rain and Oliver heard Foucard and Denis rattle downstairs and then cobblestones rang beneath their feet . |
| 17 | And then Nasser Hussain was caught in the gully as a brute of a delivery flew from just short of a length to take the shoulder of his bat . |
| 18 | And then Lukic performed his first rescue act with a fine dive to tip Niall Quinn 's shot round the post . |
| 19 | The actual wedding was to be held the next day , and then Changez and Jamila would stay at the Ritz for a couple of nights . |
| 20 | When Elsie had to retire for health reasons , we were once again without a teacher but Hilda Lodge and Eleanor Pitman helped out and then Joan Gatfield , a leader in training , decided to do some training with us . |
| 21 | First Bridgeman ( both personally and as First Lord of the Admiralty a very surprising choice ) , and then Baldwin himself were brought in to sustain Steel-Maitland . |
| 22 | And then meringues , liqueur whipped cream and crushed raspberries from Andalucia . |
| 23 | Only during the regime of Edmund Grindal did the Puritan reformers stand any chance of success , but Grindal was quickly suspended and his successors , Whitgift and then Bancroft were intolerant of them . |
| 24 | There was n't much traffic on the roads until they approached the city centre , and then roads became a little more clogged . |
| 25 | He was standing on the bottom stair when he heard footsteps coming up the back stairs from the kitchen and then Jane 's large dark eyes peered through the banisters at him . |
| 26 | and then gin and tonics till they were flowing out our ears |
| 27 | He also knew that his wife , after being secretary to a bishop and then secretary to the professor of divinity , and his hostess for eight years , was better equipped to be the wife of the new Bishop of Durham than any other woman in the country . |
| 28 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
| 29 | Now and then friends were sighted and passed . |
| 30 | And then music , if you hit it , music come back on . |