Example sentences of "[conj] then [art] [noun sg] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were shouts and calls from the men , and then a man 's body was pulled from the trees . |
| 2 | What I 'd like to do is have an industry day then and then a parent 's invitation to see what the kids had done and a quick feedback . |
| 3 | When Jimmy Johnstone 's bar closed , he was forced to take a series of menial jobs as a lorry driver firstly with Lafferty 's Construction Company and then a labourer 's job with a gas contractor 's , where , ironically , he had to dig gas pipe-lines which ran past Willie Johnson 's pub . |
| 4 | There was a scuffle , and then a woman 's giggle , among the undergrowth toward the centre of the small coppice . |
| 5 | And then the child 's voice came loud and clear : |
| 6 | Erm ha having gone through that you moved on er and gave out your business card fi first and then the buyer 's guide erm do n't know whether you 're happy doing it that way or whether it 's better round the other way , I I , you , you tend to think if you give somebody the buyer 's guide first when they start to look at it you give them your business card and take it away , perhaps if you do it the other way round they might s start reading the buyer 's guide |
| 7 | They rolled around on the ground together for a few moments and then the boy 's mother came out and gave him Sergeant 's leash . |
| 8 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 9 | If you , ah now can I ask you to sign that and then the banker 's order |
| 10 | Tod stood there for a moment , staring at the clock 's face , and then the mirror 's face , with a sallow smile . |
| 11 | The beast by candle-light ; the trip to bed where all the things you would n't do , have n't done , are things he 'll make you do , and things you 'll want ; and then the beast 's departure , out on his own , still smelling your smell but looking for fresh tracks . |
| 12 | There was an item on a big drugs haul in Seattle and then the President 's face came up on the screen . |
| 13 | But then the Cat 's head slowly began to vanish , and when the executioner came back with the Duchess , there was nothing there . |
| 14 | But then the fox 's behaviour went somehow wrong . |
| 15 | But then the bridegroom 's mother , Cara White , whose catering firm handled the receptions , sued the Smiths for the £836 . |