Example sentences of "[noun sg] and then [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown released his safety belt and removed his gloves , and with a crippled leg from the war , scrambled onto the centre section of the fuselage and then onto the wing . |
| 2 | Let your imagination roan with your desperately running heroine firmly in the centre of your mind and then from the incidents that will ( if you have a ration of luck ) spring up , arrange them in order of difficulty , if your intuition has not done that already for you . |
| 3 | She first began working in the winding department and then in the Dye House before her thirteen years ' as a cleaner . |
| 4 | Going for tea and then for the service afterwards . |
| 5 | And so , from the sick wards in the old House of Industry and then of the Bedford Union , through the workhouse infirmary , St. Peter 's Hospital , providing a comprehensive range of services for the sick and injured poor of the district , had emerged from the chrysalis as the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 6 | It was , it was very nice except that Fred had a piece and left the last couple of slices in the tin on the side and the dog took a shine to it so it was in a tin and then in the dog . |
| 7 | Gaelic is Hebrew but no one knew this until Pitman invented shorthand and then without the vowels it was clear that Gaelic and Hebrew were the same . |
| 8 | Tug slumped into a chair and looked first to one side and then to the other . |
| 9 | She was followed by Rabbi Moishe , his sallow face with its rippling white beard inclining first to one side and then to the other as everyone did him honour by rising until he had passed , and just behind him came another black-garbed figure , a bespectacled priest , greying head covered by a yarmulkah . |
| 10 | She swept back a handful of Lucy 's hair and pinned it up , first on one side and then on the other ; but before she 'd reached for the scissors to begin , Charlie 's face appeared around the doorway . |
| 11 | It seemed obvious that the best form of organization for overseas trade was the one that was used first in exporting wool and then by the cloth traders , who still accounted for three-quarters of English exports in the first half of the century : all the merchants involved would sell together at a ‘ staple ’ town , usually in Belgium or the Netherlands , where they could avoid competing with each other and so increase their bargaining strength . |
| 12 | Before we set off again , on along the coast and then across the sea , The Fat Controller saw fit to bifurcate our strange awarenesses . |
| 13 | Let us look in more detail at the difficulties inherent for everyone in appropriate penetration and then at the problems that can arise in marriage when these are or an extreme nature . |
| 14 | We follow his transition from international sprinter to club coach and then to the mastermind of an élite group of world-class sprinters — Angella Taylor-Issajenko , Tony Sharpe , Mark McCoy and Desai Williams were all medal-winners with Ben Johnson in the Commonwealth Games of 1982 . |
| 15 | He looked through the windscreen and then through the driver 's window . |
| 16 | Narouz had been angry , first with the girl for playing the fool and then with the eunuch for not finding her . |
| 17 | Originally he worked from Shrewsbury on the Bristol run and then on the West Country routes when he moved to Old Oak Common , London . |
| 18 | Each applicant is required to comply first with the General Entrance Requirement and then with the Degree Course Requirements . |
| 19 | Afterwards they had eaten lunch and then despite the heat had started home . |
| 20 | We 've spent months of shelving and then in the end he just says oh sod it , just took it out for an eight one six then . |
| 21 | The second group consists of all the waves doubly scattered first by a substrate atom and then by the adatom , denoted as , and all the multiply scattered waves involving the adatom at least once , denoted as , as shown in Fig. 1 b . |
| 22 | He staggered back , half tripped on the cockpit coaming , scrambled up to the deck and then to the ship 's rail . |
| 23 | ‘ I was at university and then in the Home Office for a time . ’ |
| 24 | He badgered his local rural dean , wrote letters to the nearest archdeacon and then to the Bishop , complaining of his frustration and begging he might be relieved |
| 25 | He chooses Northamptonshire in 1792 and we journey with him up to the present and then into the future . |
| 26 | Whinfield served as an assistant director of chemical research in the Ministry of Supply during World War II and then joined ICI in 1947 , first in its plastics division and then in the fibres division , which brought him worldwide travel , including a visit to the USSR in 1961 as a guest of the USSR government . |
| 27 | I was dragged face downward across the floor and on to the landing and then down the stairs … ’ |
| 28 | Magee looked at the cardboard and then at the man who , he guessed . |
| 29 | The kitchen opened into a very pleasant sitting-room , which had a door leading to a little dairy on the right and then to the stairs which had a half landing with a tiny window looking out at the back . |
| 30 | She punched Rossmayne in the eye and then on the chest , tugging at his cravat until he lost his balance and fell on top of her . |