Example sentences of "[conj] then [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEW ZEALAND , whose tour of Sri Lanka was delayed by nearly a week and then rescheduled after a bomb blast near their hotel , yesterday lost their opening game by 17 runs in Matara . |
| 2 | Graham watched in horror as Iain slid down a rocky buttress , and then waited on a ledge for 12 hours until rescued by the RAF . |
| 3 | I had a drink with the lads and then slept for a week — thinking about 4-irons and 5-irons ! |
| 4 | The poles slid glistening in and out of the water as the craft approached and then beached with a bump . |
| 5 | I stood staring at the jeep as it bumped and swayed over the uneven ground of the orchard until it reached the road and then disappeared in a cloud of dust . |
| 6 | He sprinkled water over the towel and then went into a paroxysm of agony , nursing the injured arm against his chest and holding out his other hand for money . |
| 7 | Anyway , we went out to dinner and then went to a speakeasy . |
| 8 | ‘ And thus he continued ’ , writes Baxter , ‘ raging against me about a year , and then died of a fever in horror of conscience . ’ |
| 9 | I got about halfway , and then wished for a spurt of invention that did n't depend upon one strident clown shaking a furious finger at someone who was standing two feet behind him . ’ |
| 10 | First , each donned sunglasses , jeans and a white laboratory coat and then walked through a colony of prairie dogs while an assistant tape-recorded the resulting alarm calls . |
| 11 | They proclaimed their achievement on Nkrumah 's behalf : and then succumbed to a counter-attack . |
| 12 | The arm hovered before the bookcase and then darted at a book end and retrieved a bound diary . |
| 13 | On a dark and icy cold morning in January 1946 I flew in an RAF plane from Berlin to Kiel and then drove in a jeep to a British Army Church House a few miles outside the city . |
| 14 | He was on the scheme for a year and then stayed as a trainee earning thirty pounds a week . |
| 15 | Now President Truman er was a man of erm limited intelligence but extraordinary courage and tenacity and erm er his previous career involved a failed haberdashery store which went bankrupt , er and then acted as a bag man for a sort of organized crime in Kansas City but that 's , you know , you 've got ta get on the job training somewhere have n't you ? |
| 16 | The chamber , filled with over 160 delegations to the World Conference on Human Rights , listened in hushed silence and then rose in a standing ovation . |
| 17 | Mr Cottle blushed and then snorted into a handkerchief to hide his confusion . |
| 18 | Sophie looked at both her sons and then sank into a chair . |
| 19 | Seven people , including a mother and child , were killed when a lorry and van crashed and then ploughed into a Post Office today . |
| 20 | He sucked it , sniffing , and then started on a leg . |
| 21 | Her heart plummeted with the thought that he would be away again , and then hitched to a halt when his words registered . |
| 22 | Newman grinned and then frowned as a mixture of emotions flashed over her face . |
| 23 | Felix thought of Czechoslovakia and then careered into a fantasy of Ho Chi Minh gossiping about the minor members of the English Royal Family . |
| 24 | When he slid his fingers across the spring of gold curls , parting the intimate secret of her , finding the hard nub of her womanhood before slipping below to the hot , molten tightness at her centre , she tensed and then capitulated in a flood of aching heat , and she heard herself say his name , moan his name again and again . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , Stevens , ’ he began with a false air of nonchalance , but then seemed at a loss how to continue . |