Example sentences of "[noun prp] and then [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Pete Bushell is the second Engine Driver , who before joining the railway in 1981 , worked as a British Rail Fireman on Steam Engines at Stafford and then as an Engine Driver at the Granville Pit , Donnington . |
2 | On an impulse , Hari hugged Will and then with a grimace held him away from her . |
3 | We had driven for five hours in open lorries through a rainstorm , climbing into the foothills of the Alps and then across a wilderness of a training area , with sharp mountains and expanses of harsh , windblown moorland . |
4 | We went to England early in 1919 , travelling by train to Jibuti and then by a Union Castle boat to Marseilles . |
5 | She was kept prisoner in Edinburgh and then in a castle on an islet in Loch Leven near Kinross . |
6 | He was then sent out to work , first at a toy factory in the East End of London and then at an estate agents . |