Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] then [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sky sort of turns grey and then whitey-blue and then in the end it 's daytime and it 's all sunny . |
| 2 | And the whole process is made as simultaneously agonising and amazing as it could be — you labour to give birth , that 's the right word all right , and it 's about as ghastly as possible and then at the end there 's this absolutely wonderful feeling , that the conspiracy has never hinted at , when you hold it and see it and you suddenly realise there 's a whole new emotion you did n't know anything about . |
| 3 | Bill looks at the Danish and then at the dog , its eyes fixed on the Danish . |
| 4 | Yeah , but it freezes that quick that when it falls overnight and then by the morning it frozen so hard that you can walk on top of it |
| 5 | As Mansell , 38 , attempted to overtake , Senna moved wide to his left as he took the racing line in approach to the corner , forcing the Englishman to career wide and then off the circuit . |
| 6 | In the 1940s , he worked for the Northern Whig and then for the Intelligence Corps and the Foreign Office . |