Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] then [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gresham telescope was demonstrated to Charles II in October 1660 and then at the king 's request was moved to the garden at Whitehall Palace . |
| 2 | The sky sort of turns grey and then whitey-blue and then in the end it 's daytime and it 's all sunny . |
| 3 | And the whole process is made as simultaneously agonising and amazing as it could be — you labour to give birth , that 's the right word all right , and it 's about as ghastly as possible and then at the end there 's this absolutely wonderful feeling , that the conspiracy has never hinted at , when you hold it and see it and you suddenly realise there 's a whole new emotion you did n't know anything about . |
| 4 | And er we used to all do that and then in the week in the weekday |
| 5 | Bill looks at the Danish and then at the dog , its eyes fixed on the Danish . |
| 6 | Yeah , but it freezes that quick that when it falls overnight and then by the morning it frozen so hard that you can walk on top of it |
| 7 | The institutionalization of Hitler 's charismatic leadership , first of all within the Party during the 1920s and then within the State after 1933 , served a crucial function in sealing the bonds between Hitler and the subordinate Party leadership . |
| 8 | I sighed heavily as I looked first at one and then at the other while we made our slow way down the main street , past Woolworth and the traffic lights . |
| 9 | As Mansell , 38 , attempted to overtake , Senna moved wide to his left as he took the racing line in approach to the corner , forcing the Englishman to career wide and then off the circuit . |
| 10 | In the 1940s , he worked for the Northern Whig and then for the Intelligence Corps and the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | Utah 's natural-resources boom of the 1970s was stopped in its tracks , first by the recession of the early 1980s and then by the oil bust later in the decade . |