Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [conj] then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know you said you were extra and then going to freezer shop or summat . |
| 2 | She heard you were pregnant and then told us that she was . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He knew how to break one rock with another rock so they were sharp and then used them to make a point on a stick . |
| 5 | In order that these children did n't get suspicious of his works , they were brain-washed and then placed with families on campus . |
| 6 | The Bishop waited until it was dark and then ferried across the river to Wouldham and made his way to Boxley Abbey for safety . |
| 7 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |
| 8 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |
| 9 | 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 . |