Example sentences of "[adv] and then [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He , he was apparently and then on the Saturday or Sunday h h he , he started to reject so he had to go back in . |
| 2 | Cos they we we were , we were doing it and and wha they were all kinds of and it 's got and I like , rushed it over to the sink and , and then just and then with the table it fell |
| 3 | We round a headland and I am behind again because of staring downwards and then towards the horizon , willing an orca to break surface . |
| 4 | She rested now and then under the shade of the cypresses and watched other tourists labouring in the heat . |
| 5 | In fact he probably stands a round of beers with his mates every now and then on the strength of his unrequited schoolboy romance with a fluffy little classmate who grew up into a sexy , albeit pintsized superstar . |
| 6 | But since her captivity , a babel seethed around her constantly , the cries and demands of Sycorax , the commands of the men on guard over her , the hammering and planing of the pales for the stockade and for the settlers ' other plans ; the shouts of the men from the boat-building on the beach , the barking of orders to bondsmen brought from England on the ship that had returned , the yells of slaves whom they had loaded in Dahomey or Yoruba on the journey back , and roped and chained and put to work under the whip , and the bellowing laughter now and then of the overseer , a tall African who had been taken out of chains himself to hold the lash over his fellows . |
| 7 | Indeed , the clarity of Hamelin 's articulation , often at the most break-neck speeds , reminds me now and then of the playing of John Ogdon , and there can be no higher praise than that . |
| 8 | Faint little star , half hidden , revealed now and then by the wind ; flickering pin-point in a whirling galaxy , the prayer of navigators … see me home . |
| 9 | The Führer likes to have staff meetings now and then in the map room . |
| 10 | In short of having before your Lordship a very complicated er array of procedural options , er the , the view that has been taken by , my lead was the most appropriate er course was to come and argue the issue substantially and then in the light of what your Lordship rules thereafter to see the best way forward in terms of further procedural applications to your Lordship . |
| 11 | And he 'd be there once or twice and then on the Wednesday evening as was his custom , he went down to the village , he had a date with my mother and there she was standing by the shop in the square and when she saw him coming down she turned and said , , she said and swirled her skirts round . |
| 12 | As I say I do n't want to promise you something and and then and then at the end you say well hang on we did n't look at that because that 's not within the agenda of of these two days . |
| 13 | And that 's when , you see during I can just remember previous to the war them coming there and then of course during the war there was very very few of them on the road then and then after the war they started to come back and that 's when this Billy and Harry and that came up from the side . |
| 14 | I fainted , there and then on the floor of the shop I shall never forget it . " |
| 15 | No , it 's that he , he goes , if I had the other one he could have done it there and then on the computer . |
| 16 | Just do Wicken on a Tuesday you know , cut the meat as you go , not orders there and then on the Friday , George would go to Upware on a Friday and then on a Saturday we used to do the Fen round again , down Fen on the earth road at black , no concrete there just the black earth with ruts about that deep , some places , cos the Fen earth you li bulges out so and er my father used to go to Wicken Saturday afternoon . |
| 17 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 18 | We piloted to over two hundred students er so I mean , I , I think erm that , that 's very important to stress , also that we are distributing through student links , so it 's going through , through both the , the student unions in Oxford , through , through the Poly union , through sort of , through informal links there and then through the welfare offices in each college at the university . |
| 19 | Nutty could see that the three boys were so keen to get started she suggested they repaired there and then to the back of the bicycle sheds and had a go to see what it was like . |
| 20 | Down there in the depths , and she was very aware of how deep it was , a sign pointing ahead and then to the left said : Trains . |