Example sentences of "[conj] then [vb pp] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She waited until the door was closed and then crossed to the window of her suite , pulling the curtains aside . |
| 2 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 3 | The exhibition ‘ Al-Andalus : the art of Islamic Spain ’ was first shown at the Alhambra in Granada last spring and then moved to the Met over the summer . |
| 4 | He has a long and distinguished career in public health medicine : he was the first doctor to give a patient penicillin in 1941 and then moved to the post of director of the Medical Research Council 's Pneumoconiosis Research Unit , investigating diseases of the lung . |
| 5 | Another described how a strong rope was thrown over one of the barn 's tie-beams and then fixed to the horse 's harness . |
| 6 | The youth was approached by another man as he walked along High Row and then beaten to the ground . |
| 7 | I love you I love you — it 's become some trilling song popular for a lurid month and then dismissed to the club circuit where pudgy rockers with grease in their hair and yearning in their voice will use it to unfrock the lolling front-row girls . |
| 8 | Meanwhile at New Bradwell , boys would rush home from school to collect lunch baskets , place them in hand trucks , and then run to the messroom ( over one mile ) , so the meal was plated just before the men came out of work . |
| 9 | Pipe-fitter Michael Huntington , 29 , was given emergency first aid by medics , and then rushed to the hospital 's casualty unit . |
| 10 | Once the amplifier has boosted the signal it is clipped to provide a digital pulse rather than an analogue waveform and then fed to the computer via the switch . |
| 11 | The lift was absolutely essential for some of the barrels were extremely large being brought from the Goods Station on horse-drawn drays and then manoeuvred to the road on specially constructed ramps which clipped to bars at the back of the carts . |
| 12 | The track , after leaving the ridge , went steeply down for a few yards and then turned to the right and ran diagonally across the hill for a hundred yards ; the pile of rocks was about midway on the right-hand side of this length of the track . |
| 13 | Suetonius rapidly completed the subjection of south and central Wales , and then turned to the mountain massif of Snowdonia and the centre of hostility it screened . |
| 14 | ‘ The patronage system … ’ he began , and then turned to the Bishop . |
| 15 | It was created and then given to the town in the last century by Massey — first name , and how fittingly , Placide — who had previously been the gardener in charge of the orangery of Versailles and at the Jar din tea Plantes in Paris . |
| 16 | The recorder was raised to the surface - in the presence of Judge Priore and the technical head of the Commission - and then sent to the Air Accident Investigation Branch at Farnborough to be decoded . |
| 17 | The fact that microcomputers can communicate with larger computers means that data can be prepared on the micro and then sent to the mainframe at a convenient moment . |
| 18 | Applications are developed on a PC and then sent to the target machine . |
| 19 | The draft advertisement should be approved by a partner and then sent to the client . |
| 20 | Mr Souness was treated for 30 minutes and then transferred to a high-dependency , progressive care unit at Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle , near Manchester . |
| 21 | ( Since then I have learned that the way it is done is in a body bag , which is much easier to handle , and then transferred to a coffin either in the pick-up vehicle or at the undertakers . ) |
| 22 | Like E. nymphaefolius it can be first grown in a flowerpot and then transferred to the aquarium . |
| 23 | Two pieces of 2″ × 2″ wood were cut to the length of the vat , painted with wood preserver and then screwed to the top of each side of the vat using self-tapping screws . |
| 24 | And they poured the water and that held the heat in and then bent to the shape . |
| 25 | The path rose gently above water level and then bent to the left . |
| 26 | The design which is to be knitted is graphed and then converted to the design for knitting the mosaic . |
| 27 | You stick the hook through the slug about a half inch from one end and then cast to a spot where the current will carry the slug beneath the roof of streamer weed , then place the rod in a rod-rest and watch it very carefully . |
| 28 | The well-being of 71 dog and cat owners was monitored for ten months , and then compared to the health of 26 people who did n't own any animals . |
| 29 | His wife had been admitted to hospital for observation , and then evacuated to a hospital in Shropshire when war was declared . |
| 30 | The fire started in a transit van travelling east-bound and then spread to the fuel tank . |