Example sentences of "[coord] then [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It happened once or twice in the semi-final against the All Blacks and then even more in the final ’ , he explained .
2 Tail curves gently down and then up again at the tip This is the relaxed cat , at peace with the world .
3 Although there was a sort of medieval corporation , it did n't have a Royal Charter and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted , and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the Borough Commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in eighteen eighty one .
4 Although there was a sort of mediaeval corporation it did n't have the royal charter , and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the borough commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in 1881 .
5 Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast .
6 And water comes in there , goes out there and then again out of the , another manifold again .
7 Only during the last 100 years has the active cultivation of aquatic plants for decoration been practised , and then widely only during the last 25 years .
8 Cadfael began to prowl uphill along the edge of the path , probing into the bushes , and then downhill again on the opposite side .
9 Most shares change in price most days — usually by very little and only infrequently by quite a lot , and then very rarely by a huge amount , say 50 per cent or more .
10 Go right and collect the painting , go left , down , and right along the passage , go down and left along the passage , go down and right along the passage , fall down the gap , and then down again into the clouds , go back to the start , go right and down , go left to the switch , go up on the painted walls , go left and collect the painting , fall down , go right and up on the stairs from the cauldron , go right and into the painting board to complete the level .
11 Then down here we have a couple of day beds for patients who need to rest under observation for the day following treatment but who do n't really justify admission , and then over here we 've got the two theatres for major suturing and cleaning up , and then down there at the end the X-ray and plaster rooms . ’
12 Cheddars may be hard or semi-hard ; they are pressed lightly for a matter of hours and then more firmly for a short period of days .
13 The Politburo , at its meeting a few days later , described the summit as a ‘ major event in international life ’ whose main result had been the ‘ deepening of the political dialogue between the Soviet Union and the USA ’ ; and the dialogue did , indeed , continue under Reagan 's successor George Bush , first at a storm-tossed ‘ get to know you ’ summit off Malta and then more formally in the course of an official presidential visit to the United States in 1990 .
14 The profit from the investment goes to the one being loved and then only indirectly to the lover .
15 Each of the five judgments rambles over the territory in what can only be called a head-scratching way , making it impossible for the consumer of the judgment to know at the end just what the law is held to be , except negatively , and then only negatively on a few points .
16 Ten minutes to shovel in a plateful of hot stew or fish and chips , and then out again into the back streets and down to the Iron Green .
17 The next moment the two of them were running down the drive together and then out on to the road , and Matilda was ahead , pulling Miss Honey after her by her wrist , and it was a wild and wonderful dash they made along the country lane and through the village to the house where Matilda 's parents lived .
18 In order to stop this movement , the top of the pendulum must now be moved sharply to the left to counteract it and then smartly back to a point directly above the helicopter at precisely the moment that the movement stops .
19 After three months ' travelling in Australia , hitch-hiking has become an addiction ; the stimulation of a new acquaintance , a frank exchange of views , and then back on to the roadside — a self-contained experience without any repercussions .
20 Within that period , however , there were some changes in employment patterns , the most important features being a swing in government service from 7 per cent to 6 per cent in the early 1960s and then back again by the end of the period , and an almost obverse swing in distribution from 11 to 13 per cent and back to 12 per cent .
21 Okay love , yeah down there around the D at the bottom and then back up to the D at the top
22 We have attempted to align a previously independent field of inquiry , cognitive and developmental psychology , with evolutionary biology and particularly sociobiology , and in so doing have constructed an ensemble of models that trace , at times clumsily and imperfectly , behavioural development from the genetic blueprint to the assembly of the nervous system to the learning process — and then back down to the alteration of gene frequencies by natural selection operating within the context of particular cultures .
23 What they usually do is they go up and then back down by the church
24 ‘ I 'll stay as long as it takes , first in Romania and then anywhere else in the world where children need my help . ’
25 The words here are linked in pairs with one another for example , ‘ lov 'd … weep ’ , ‘ fortunate … rejoice ’ and then gradually up to the climax , the reason why Caesar was killed , ‘ ambition … slew ’ .
26 but then later on in the day he rung back and said he had found some bilingual signs but all he 's got were about four foot square er with census point ahead .
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