Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [conj] then [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In carefully structured interviews on the concept of God with three and four-year old children she found that if she began by asking them to distinguish between objects which were man-made and ones which were natural and then to speculate about origins in each case , a majority of the responses referred to the natural objects being made by God or an unknown power ( almost half and half responses on this ) .
2 He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds .
3 I know you said you were extra and then going to freezer shop or summat .
4 She heard you were pregnant and then told us that she was .
5 She was disconcerted and then enthralled by Lenny Bruce 's spitfire monologues , his explosive mix of four-letter words and Yiddishisms which hit at the gut of hypocrisies .
6 In an adjournment debate in the Commons earlier this month , Mr Hood claimed that Mr Muncie 's ‘ luck ran out ’ for his favourite method of investigation — deciding who was guilty and then gathering evidence to prove it .
7 He knew how to break one rock with another rock so they were sharp and then used them to make a point on a stick .
8 In order that these children did n't get suspicious of his works , they were brain-washed and then placed with families on campus .
9 The Bishop waited until it was dark and then ferried across the river to Wouldham and made his way to Boxley Abbey for safety .
10 If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen .
11 He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants .
12 Young Archie was educated at the local National school until he was 14 and then apprenticed to Stephens & Sons , pioneers of the Stephens motor-car .
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