Example sentences of "[pers pn] then [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Her earliest work in cytology concerned the presence of centrosomes in higher plants ; she then moved to a general study of oƶgenesis and spermatogenesis in Lilium martagon .
2 We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it .
3 They then went into a cold store and stole dozens of cartons of cream .
4 The first meeting place was above a cafe in Newgate Street in the City of London , but this did not prove satisfactory and they then met on a weekly basis at another cafe near Marble Arch .
5 It then ran as a two car unit ( No .
6 Having crossed the Siemens ' Brothers homeland , it then clipped through a southern corner of Russia heading for Tehran , where it had its only interconnection before continuing on to the Indian sub-continent .
7 He then embarked on a long tirade about the tactics we should adopt for a forthcoming game with an Army side .
8 In 1900 he went to St Thomas 's Hospital to study medicine , qualifying in 1906 as MRCS and LRCP , and he then went for a short time to Brompton Hospital and Convalescent Centre .
9 He then surveyed for a French company a number of railway lines in Italy and Switzerland , before returning to England , where he worked on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Railway and the Kennet and Avon and Stourbridge canals .
10 He then laid on a wonderful cross a minute later for McCann to blast past Brendan Keeley .
11 He then taught in a higher elementary school , but became critical of the local Bolsheviks ' lack of progress in educational and social affairs .
12 He then fainted for a few seconds .
13 He then retired to a small property near Ryde on the Isle of Wight , where he spent his later years carrying out improvements to the grounds and where he died 14 February 1853 .
14 He then flew to a nearby magic mountain to gather healing herbs for his troops , which ensured their success in battle .
15 He then appeared in a few Austrian films before fleeing from the Nazis in the late 1930s .
16 He then explained in a hushed voice how these bloody insects roamed all over the place .
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