Example sentences of "[conj] then [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gate B — pursuing his current job in computer sales — led on to a tarmac road , and then into a grey housing estate , ending in a cul-de-sac . |
| 2 | Should your goals be made smaller and then into a longer list ? |
| 3 | Middlesbrough developed in the middle of the nineteenth century as a coal port and then as a major centre of steel and chemical production . |
| 4 | And then as a quick check , just a rough check . |
| 5 | And then at a certain point she felt , and we felt , that Madam was n't quite enough ; and so just now , anyway , she was known as Madame , and no one in The Bar ever addressed her as anything else . |
| 6 | W And then at a later date she she would er reassess it and see what else you 'd done . |
| 7 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 8 | And then with a desperate movement he drew back from her grasp , his breath rasping in his chest . |
| 9 | Soon Downes had reached the last carriage , in front of the diesel locomotive , staring quickly through the windows of the compartment as the few doors still remaining open were banged shut and a whistle blew , and with a slight chug and then with a mighty heave the long , north-bound train began slowly to move forward , gradually picking up a little speed , before moving out and away along the curving stretch of line that led to Banbury . |
| 10 | It has been mended twice by the plumber — once with jointing compound , and then with a non-setting mastic filler . |
| 11 | And then with a final glance to either side he turned and walked off towards the main gate . |
| 12 | ‘ That is true , ’ she said , and then with a friendly twinkle , ‘ This is n't a restaurant ; it 's a private house . ’ |
| 13 | Mike looked back at him , trying to calculate the odds , and then with a mental shrug took the risk of alienating the other man . |
| 14 | For a moment the river was washed with pink and then with a beautiful grey . |
| 15 | He gasped and reached up to her , pulling her down against his chest , and then with a swift movement he turned her beneath him . |
| 16 | Frankie was rubbing his hands together and Chopper merely nodded now and then with a silly expression on his face . |
| 17 | The woman stared at him for a moment , without expression , and then with a little smile handed the doll back to Artemis . |
| 18 | Their limbs entwined , he slowly and gently at first and then with a mounting fierceness made love to her again , his eyes gleaming with the triumph of possession as her pliant body instantly surrendered , both to his sensual touch and the low , husky murmur of his voice . |
| 19 | During a protracted confrontation with a drunken heckler he deservedly came out the winner both on points and then with a clear knockout ; the humiliated toper slinking out by a side door . |
| 20 | Commission rates on dealing start at 1.65% on the first £7,000 and then on a diminishing scale , with a minimum of £20 on both sale and purchase . |
| 21 | He fainted when they moved him , it was such an upheaval thought we 'd lost him then , and then on a beautiful air bed and he looked |
| 22 | He was soon posted to England and then for a short period to Brussels before leaving the Bank in 1975 . |
| 23 | In this case , dependency moves from the primary level of food imports , to a secondary level of technical inputs , and then to a tertiary level of import substitution plants run by the TNCs . |
| 24 | I 'd like to be transported to a bathroom in the Ritz and then to a dry Martini in the bar . ’ |
| 25 | A social worker was called in and , with a lot of support , Annie moved to a women 's refuge and then to a small flat . |
| 26 | Return the sauce to the saucepan and then to a low heat , stirring constantly until it is thick enough to coat a spoon . |
| 27 | The teacher 's ruler would point first to a pupil and then to a particular feature on the map . |
| 28 | Disk space will start at 4.2GB , progressing to a half a terabyte and then to a full terabyte next year . |
| 29 | Mike was married twice by the time he was 20 : first to Jenny , and then to a large mortgage . |
| 30 | What these various movements had in common was that they provoked confrontations , first in the [ United States and then to a lesser extent in Britain , which highlighted features of law and its enforcement that made academic , positivist criminology look ; extremely complacent and conservative . |