Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] then [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , Miss Carter wanted me to go pupil-teaching and then take a teacher 's course , well that 's one thing I could do ; it 's not too late , I 'm only twenty-two . |
| 2 | Everything needing a temporary home found its way into the stable and then became a permanency . |
| 3 | Karamanlis , 83 , had presided over Greece 's return to democracy in 1974 , holding office as Prime Minister until 1980 and then serving a term as President from 1980 to 1985 . |
| 4 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 5 | When he found it , he tapped along the feed pipe at random and then gave a couple of good , square bangs on the connectors before he tried the starter button . |
| 6 | She completed victory by taking the tiebreak 7-5 but not before she lost her serve to 5-5 and then saved a set point at 5-6 . |
| 7 | this prevents civilians from becoming far too powerful and then becoming a dictatorship . |
| 8 | ‘ Fix one line , foul up two more and then take a tea-break ! ’ |
| 9 | His ‘ Sanspareil ’ , which competed unsuccessfully in the Rainhill locomotive trials of 1829 , instituted by the directors of the London and Manchester Railway and won by the ‘ Rocket ’ of Robert Stephenson [ q.v. ] , gave excellent service until 1844 and then became an exhibit at the Science Museum , London . |
| 10 | I positioned the rose first and then tucked a rose leaf either side of it . |
| 11 | Similarly you get players such as Pallister who strulled at first and then became a bargain . |
| 12 | Hamilton took a 2 at the first and then stole a single . |
| 13 | Some have been initially successful and then suffered a relapse , suggesting that at least some of the cases owed their success more to the Hawthorne effect than to a deeper understanding of people . |
| 14 | Parkin looked worried but then snorted a laugh through his chiselled nose . |
| 15 | To display the jewelled egg , knot a thread at one end , run it through a pretty bead , up through the egg , through another bead or two and then make a loop with the top to hang the egg . |
| 16 | His father is a veterinary surgeon , and he himself assisted his father for a year or two and then became a groom . |
| 17 | Greg hit a good drive at the 18th and then put a 3-iron on the green . |