Example sentences of "[conj] then [vb past] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men ushered their wives and girlfriends to safety and then trudged the last mile to the party . |
| 2 | ‘ And then came the first tragedy . |
| 3 | She 'd caught two buses across Johannesburg and then walked the last couple of miles to come and find me . ’ |
| 4 | Kept in training as a four-year-old , Pebbles won the Trusthouse Forte Mile at Sandown Park , was second in the Prince of Wales 's Stakes at Royal Ascot , and then became the first filly ever to win the Eclipse , beating subsequent Arc winner Rainbow Quest by two lengths . |
| 5 | This combined traversal first collected all the paragraphs from links emanating from a node ( this is the breadth-first part ) and then chose the next node by a depth-first principle . |
| 6 | Ackroyd put the signals to red , rang the station down the line to tell them that he had a problem and then rang the next station above to alert them that he still had a train in his section . |