Example sentences of "and then [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place . |
| 2 | Retiring in 1959 after a year 's extension , Macpherson continued to be active in public life , as chairman of Cable and Wireless Ltd. ( 1962–7 ) , deputy and then chairman of the Basildon Development Corporation ( 1960–7 ) , vice-president of the Royal Commonwealth and the Royal African Societies , and , from 1962 , vice-chairman of the advisory committee on distinction awards for consultants . |
| 3 | A former priest , he hit the headlines as secretary and then chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . |
| 4 | Later we tried wire netting over the sluice and then mesh screens which rested each side and after a heavy snowfall collapsed into it , unable to bear the weight . |
| 5 | One last thought on the subject and then basta : they — Moss and McGrindle , etc. |
| 6 | and then scrum-half Bruce Fenley rounded off another charge with the second try … 14-6 at half-time … |
| 7 | and then gin and tonics till they were flowing out our ears |
| 8 | He also knew that his wife , after being secretary to a bishop and then secretary to the professor of divinity , and his hostess for eight years , was better equipped to be the wife of the new Bishop of Durham than any other woman in the country . |
| 9 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
| 10 | And then music , if you hit it , music come back on . |
| 11 | The majority of members travelled by train and then cab , the fares for which were a regular source of comment . |
| 12 | And then second er the meaning and practice of confirmation has been much debated among us . |
| 13 | , Valley and Green , I 'd pick first , and then second I 'd pick Valley , third would be and last would be Green . |
| 14 | Turn left into Walnut Street and then second left into Filbert Street . |
| 15 | She read a lot of magazines : Cosmo in high school and then Vogue . |
| 16 | And then Pizza Hut they deliver do n't they ? |
| 17 | See how horrendous the next one is and then panic . |
| 18 | The electrical equipment overheats and then fuse as yo we all know should blow to cut off the supply of electrical equipment to that piece of apparatus . |
| 19 | Let's get the message over , let's go without one congress and I know that 's near to John 's heart and request the other unions , A E U , U C A T , T N G , request the T N , T U C to do the same and then plaster over every bus in Britain , the G M B's policy . |
| 20 | Then Amanda had lain on the bed and made a few suggestions which insulted his experience ; he 'd fumbled hurriedly with zips and cuff buttons , his Calvinistic conscience retreating into its corner , and then exultation was running through him like the roar of the crowd the night Jim Watt had won his title . |
| 21 | Such a typical creature was a kind of Platonic ideal , imperfectly realized here below ; and Richard Owen , Huxley 's patron and then foe , made sense of zoology through a series of such ‘ archetypes ’ , as he called them . |
| 22 | He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could . |
| 23 | And then Boy could imagine having a cup of coffee with them in the morning , but he could n't imagine anything else after that . |
| 24 | They did it , very slowly and tenderly , and then drove on again ; and then Boy made him stop the second time , in a layby with the first lorry headlights going past , and the man took Boy 's cock in his mouth again , and masturbated Boy again so that he came a second time , and then they drove again . |
| 25 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 26 | ‘ Goodnight , Mother , ’ and then Boy said ( for the very first time ) : ‘ Goodnight , Mother . ’ |
| 27 | Future tapes will provide information on wine and then meat and it is intended that ultimately all specialist areas will be covered . . |
| 28 | He had the education of the privileged — private school followed by Harvard University and then law school . |
| 29 | One three five and then percentage . |
| 30 | In 1930 the Prince of Wales , later King Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor , visited the island . |