Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] then [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police believe the women were raped before their bodies were mutilated and then thrown into the sea.Mike Dolan reports |
| 2 | I know you said you were extra and then going to freezer shop or summat . |
| 3 | In carefully structured interviews on the concept of God with three and four-year old children she found that if she began by asking them to distinguish between objects which were man-made and ones which were natural and then to speculate about origins in each case , a majority of the responses referred to the natural objects being made by God or an unknown power ( almost half and half responses on this ) . |
| 4 | In order that these children did n't get suspicious of his works , they were brain-washed and then placed with families on campus . |
| 5 | The Bishop waited until it was dark and then ferried across the river to Wouldham and made his way to Boxley Abbey for safety . |
| 6 | She was disconcerted and then enthralled by Lenny Bruce 's spitfire monologues , his explosive mix of four-letter words and Yiddishisms which hit at the gut of hypocrisies . |
| 7 | Young Archie was educated at the local National school until he was 14 and then apprenticed to Stephens & Sons , pioneers of the Stephens motor-car . |