Example sentences of "[coord] then [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former priest , he hit the headlines as secretary and then chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . |
| 2 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
| 3 | He also knew that his wife , after being secretary to a bishop and then secretary to the professor of divinity , and his hostess for eight years , was better equipped to be the wife of the new Bishop of Durham than any other woman in the country . |
| 4 | In a rather different way , the estimation of the annual output of the Roman mint between about 150 and 50BC has enabled a picture to be constructed of the growth and then contraction of the liquidity of silver coinage during that period ( fig. 24 ) . |
| 5 | Under Labour , the best example is Denis Healey who was Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and then Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 . |
| 6 | I want you to introduce the plan and then hand over the presentation to Klepner . |
| 7 | The research — and terrorism — progressed when he was lecturing in politics at University College , Cardiff , and then reader at the University of Wales . |