Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] then a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apprenticed to John Wilson ( no relation ) of Wilson , Wilkinson & Co. , iron merchants of 47 High Street , he was a junior clerk and then a traveller in the Sheffield district , promoting the sale of iron ore to the local industrialists . |
| 2 | The estate agent suggested an asking price and took some measurements and then a photograph , standing on the edge of the lawn that had become a meadow , where Rufus had stood and taken photographs a year before . |
| 3 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |
| 4 | When I asked him what for he gave a sad sigh and then a sort of bitter grin and looked me in the eye and said , ‘ Sexual harassment . ’ |
| 5 | There were whoops and cheers , mock kissing attempts , challenges to put names on the masked faces and then a song . |
| 6 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 7 | A broad constitutional framework is created , with a limited number of mandatory requirements , some optional features and then a range of matters on which the framework operates unless the related contract specifically provides otherwise . |
| 8 | A delicious meal — pasta ( layers of lasagna ) with broccoli and cheese sauce to start , roast meat , salad , then fantastic local neapolitan sausages and then a gateau thing ( on which I ‘ passed ’ ) and fruit and cheese ( on which I also ‘ passed ’ ) . |
| 9 | The match looked set to be a close affair when the two neighbours were level pegging after three heats but then a run of four successive 5–1s for the home side virtually settled the issue . |
| 10 | Through the half-open door , into the dry , shrivelling heat of the great , evil-smelling room , there appeared branchlike shapes and then a fall of blood-stained , leaflike hair . |
| 11 | ’ There was a long sigh and then a sobbing , and so desolate and so hopeless was the sound that the three listening minds were splintered with anguish . |
| 12 | A week 's good work and then a week of drought , wrote Harsnet . |
| 13 | Erm that had er most economic histor historians agree that between nineteen fifty two , nineteen fifty fifty two there was a healthy recovery and then a slackening off and that erm another consequence of land reform was to decrease the output marketed by peasants and this was because , as we mentioned earlier , the peasants have a high propensity to consume and lower marketing land was rich peasants erm and that one says that there was a new air reported then in the countryside unleashing unprecedented wave of productive enthusiasm , initiative and creativeness but there was also evidence of instability and uncertainty which hindered erm the advance of erm productiv improving productivity and investment . |
| 14 | Mandy had planned a short trip : about a forty-five-minute paddle and then a stop for lunch at a secluded bay down the lake , and then back . |
| 15 | ‘ One thing I must insist on , my boy , ’ she said , ‘ a good wash and then a hair cut . |
| 16 | There was a long pause and then a smile : ‘ I assume I did . ’ |
| 17 | In 1973 , under the direction of the Scottish Development Department , the old County Council of Orkney commissioned a firm of planning consultants to draw up first of all an interim strategy and then a Structure Plan to cope with the consequences surrounding the construction of an oil-terminal on the island of Flotta , and with the possibility of further North Sea oil activity taking place within the county . |
| 18 | Oh we used to work er f er six days a week , er all day Saturdays erm eight to eight and er eight till eight at n at er eight till seven at night or er or eight till eight at erm most shifts was early , they used to have a a an hour er an hour break of a dinner time er sometimes they only used to have half an hour at night because , I mean well once you 've got er y y you was there , once you get you shift done it was no good sitting there doing for an hour and er it , it varies on what production what was wanted and how far advanced you was or how far behind you was , you know , but er the average hours was as I say was ten hours a shift that was working shift , you worked ten hours and then a break in between , ten minutes , half an hour |
| 19 | She stopped and listened , and heard first laughter and then a voice shouting , ‘ For God 's sake . ’ |
| 20 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 21 | Here , though , the procedure of the auctioneer was somewhat different , for at first the most attractive girls were auctioned to the highest bidders and then a sort of reverse auction took place in which the unattractive ones were distributed : instead of ascending , the bidding descended until the man prepared to accept the least payment got the girl . |
| 22 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |
| 23 | Do a range protect on that same range and then a range erase of that same range . |
| 24 | The proceedings began in their customary stately way and then a Colonel Beelitz was called as a defence witness . |
| 25 | Well you see the , the , the great Soviet experiment is a good example is n't it of , of a whole civilization was based on a o o on a kind of great social experiment was based on ultimately on erm unsound principles and then a part of the scenes . |