Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [conj] then a " in BNC.

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1 These two then chase after a third and then a fourth .
2 Both in 1780 when a divergence between metropolitan radicals and Wyvill 's gentry in the county associations was evident and in 1793–4 with the calling of a British and then an English Convention , the contradictory potentialities of the convention were part of the substance of debate amongst participants .
3 At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre .
4 Veljko Kadijevic , the National Defence Minister , in a speech to the Collective State Presidency , responding to the EC peace plan , accused Germany of " being about to attack Yugoslavia for the third time this century , … preparing first for an economic and then a military assault " .
5 Maybe that 's just me , but that 's how I feel … there 's no warmth … just red paint around the outside and then a few splodges gone over with different coloured paint and [ he ] hoped for the best …
6 Ashton makes brilliant use of this in his version of the solo , phrasing the steps so that a jump upwards can last three beats followed by two short steps or two beats followed by a long and then a short step .
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