Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] then [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yeah , it 's got a group of pleats and then a gap and then a group of pleats , mm . |
| 2 | The bruise was a dull , greenish sickle of shadow just under the cheek-bone and then a comma of purple on the side of the nose , as if Culley had been wearing ill-fitting glasses . |
| 3 | A week 's good work and then a week of drought , wrote Harsnet . |
| 4 | Past a house that was larger , set back from the road , beyond a lawn on which the rain made ponds , and he saw the flash of an old woman 's face at a window and then the falling of a lace curtain . |
| 5 | When I asked him what for he gave a sad sigh and then a sort of bitter grin and looked me in the eye and said , ‘ Sexual harassment . ’ |
| 6 | They first had found a foot and then the body of a man , but he was dead . |
| 7 | First Pearl Harbor and then the declaration of war between Germany and Italy and the USA . |
| 8 | The building and then the operation of the railways created a vast new industry , which provided work across the whole range of employment grades . |
| 9 | Instead of a systematic policy of imperialism , Unionists had Montagu 's Indian policy and Milner 's policy in Egypt ; instead of settlement in Ireland there were outrages ; instead of a broad social policy there was first a reckless waste of money and then an abandonment of almost all that had been proposed . |
| 10 | The handbook will include an introduction to the broad economic and administrative history of the period and then a summary of the contents of specific classes of records , in particular those of the Cabinet Office , HM Treasury and the Board of Trade . |
| 11 | In order to clear the bowel for the investigations , Mr Reynolds had a low residue diet and then a period of time before each investigation where his intake consisted only of fluids . |
| 12 | ‘ Soon he will be a husband and then a man of family and all will be serious , ’ I said . |
| 13 | His declared strategy is to ‘ compartmentalise ’ the Lyceum 's programme , with a summer season of farce being followed by the Edinburgh Festival and then a season of classics , after which he hopes to produce some new plays . |
| 14 | Our bodies already use the muscles required to walk , so it is simply a question of increasing the duration and then the intensity of our walking in order to build up to the fitness level that we require . |
| 15 | The meeting starts at seven , the quiz is seven thirty to eight fifteen , then there 's an interval and then the rest of the quiz is nine to nine thirty , well you wo n't be home till ten o'clock . |
| 16 | He watched her , frowning , for a moment but then a squeal of high-pitched laughter rang across the camp , distracting him , and he turned to see his two sons , Dong and Hoc , squatting at the side of the clearing beside Paul and Joseph . |
| 17 | He managed to increase the staff in two ways ; first by getting the endowment for the chair of Greek freed from the attachment to a canonry and then the endowment of the canonry used to give a second professorship of theology ; secondly by persuading the vice-chancellor to find money for a lectureship in New Testament studies . |
| 18 | Add tomato juice or water and then the rest of the water until you have the consistency you like . |
| 19 | There was the sudden achingly sweet scent of burning logs on an autumn night and then the drift of thick , crisp , beech leaves in the depths of a forest and the Beech Naiad seemed to melt and shiver and dissolve into nothing . |
| 20 | This was followed soon after by penicillin and then a host of other antibiotics , very many of which are or were effective in the treatment of gonorrhoea . |
| 21 | Accordingly , for the second trick , the King of Spades is played from dummy and then the Queen of Spades to the third trick . |
| 22 | After a while he took off her cardigan and his jersey and then the rest of their clothes , and made love to her on the folk-weave bedspread of her university bed . |
| 23 | In 1802 Wordsworth produced eight stanzas in the manner of Thomson 's Castle of Indolence , which give first a self-portrait and then a description of Coleridge : |
| 24 | You got ta , se when you go up on the scales you 've got ta er say eight ten to ma he carried two pound overweight so you 've got ta put him at the scale and then the end of , the governor relies on the travel head lad to do this , the same as I 'm head man at home . |
| 25 | She underwent a lumpectomy and then a course of radiotherapy , and was due to start drug treatment when she met another cancer patient . |
| 26 | There would be the ox-roasting at midday and then a demonstration of marching by the lads followed by skirmishing with the Ancient Britons . |
| 27 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 28 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ How much ? ’ he asked , still in a sort of trance , turning the brown lustre of her skin into Abyssinian maid and then the Queen of Pleasures . |
| 30 | Okay you may not have ever seen him , he may just have been sitting in the car , then remember his colour maybe his moustache and then the type of car he had . |