Example sentences of "[conj] then [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demonstrations led by the BJP at Ayodhya , a town in northern India that some Hindus celebrate as the birthplace of their god , Ram , were hijacked by a Hindu mob that then demolished a disused mosque there . |
| 2 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 3 | She tried to imagine herself doing it and then heaved a small sigh . |
| 4 | We found a crew for the ship at the port , and then had a good voyage home . |
| 5 | She did n't respond to allopathic painkillers , developed vomiting and diarrhoea and then had a good response to Arsenicum Album LM4 but having recovered from the acute was experiencing some return of anxiety symptoms . |
| 6 | In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with . |
| 7 | Ramprakash , for reasons best known to himself , treated a Cambridge batsman , Marcus Wight , to a stream of verbal abuse and then had a stand-up row with his own captain , John Emburey , which allegedly continued later . |
| 8 | She was treated with dialysis and then had a renal transplant , jumping ahead of patients on the waiting list . |
| 9 | He had previously had three vessel coronary bypass grafts in 1977 and then had a myocardial infarction after cardiac catheterisation for unstable angina in April 1991 . |
| 10 | Thanks to this device many thousands of birds have been caught , weighed , measured and then had a lightweight metal ring clamped round one leg before being released in the hope that , when it is next caught ( or perhaps found dead ) , the number stamped on the ring will be seen and reported . |
| 11 | They rebelled against the Palladian sense of order and then led a classical revival which heralded the architecture of the beginning of the next century . |
| 12 | The early evolutionary stages of development of wings are still in question they may have developed from outgrowths of exoskeleton from the body that assisted gliding initially , and then acquired a propulsive function . |
| 13 | He was also very fond of flowers , and as well as things such as marigolds , pansies , marguerites and wallflowers , he grew a rose one does n't see these days , which was very white when it first came out and then developed a lovely flush of pink . |
| 14 | The freight forwarder stuffed the plaintiff 's goods as well as other shippers ' goods into one container , and then procured a single bill of lading in the forwarder 's name from the carrier . |
| 15 | Ball missed the opening three matches of the season because of a suspension carried over from last season , and then served a two match ban last month for reaching 21 points . |
| 16 | For last year 's service we drew up a plan and then wrote a personal letter from the laity group to all the Churches , emphasising how much we believed in the power of praying together for Unity . |
| 17 | ‘ I think that 's how Cosmas was killed : his door was locked but , before he retired , I suspect someone spread a coat of oil between the mattress and the bed support and then inserted a small bag of gunpowder . ’ |
| 18 | Wilkins superbly chipped Rangers 's second goal and then directed a verbal torrent at Ferdinand . |
| 19 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 20 | Two hours later she returned , busied herself in the kitchen and then produced a huge plate loaded with fish and potatoes , and a mammoth pot of tea . |
| 21 | He set things up for Tim Smith to score the second try and then landed a absolute beaut of a conversion . |
| 22 | And then came a great booming from overhead . |
| 23 | For a moment , Henry thought she was going to laugh , and then came a sudden explosion of sobbing . |
| 24 | ‘ His Royal Highness gave me … ’ he began , and then became a human being . |
| 25 | A Sikorsky S-61N helicopter came to the hover over Runway 27 and then commenced a left turn to hover-taxi clear of the left side of the runway and thence towards the helicopter refuelling point . |
| 26 | In the third game , he outplayed Karpov in the late middlegame and early ending , and then made a fatal blunder after almost six hours ' play . |
| 27 | On arriving in the Salle des fêtes , the Emperor bowed to the assembled guests and then made a rapid tour of the room finding a word for each of them ; the Empress , having made her famous curtsy , did likewise until the tournée was complete . |
| 28 | Everyone joined in to serve Swiss wine to the residents and then enjoyed a superb buffet prepared by Faye and her catering staff . |
| 29 | Of course she also heard it toll again and then heard a broken peal , a dreadful stuttering ringing , some quarter of an hour later . |
| 30 | Tim Smith put them ahead with a penalty and then scored a great opening try . |