Example sentences of "[coord] then [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men who were drunk at market were put in these cells till sober , and then had to pay a penny to get out . |
| 2 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 3 | Chesarynth washed , stuffed her torn and dirty hospital gown into the recycling chute and stole another , even brushed her hair ( she checked again ; no tower growing through her skull yet ) and then had to find a place to hide the dead leaves and twigs that had cascaded from the tangles . |
| 4 | Will it wait to deal with them when the bills drop on the doormats and then try to compile a list of people entitled to a rebate after the council tax has been introduced ? |
| 5 | Again it is this incomprehension of social mobility which seems to have caused my ACC to describe an officer who took a degree and then left to become a solicitor as ‘ a bad experience for the force ’ ( and not a gain for society ) . |
| 6 | Led by Una Doyle and Ged Flynn , the group became acquainted and then proceeded to play a game called BaFa BaFa . |
| 7 | The Danish king , however , was not prepared to furnish this , so Philip exacted a large dowry and then proceeded to obtain a sentence of divorce . |
| 8 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 9 | ‘ First he extolled the virtues of the protector and then proceeded to read a petition which virtually declared myself illegitimate . ’ |
| 10 | But , frankly , the policy of inventing interesting things and then trying to find a market for them was not generally very successful , ’ says Foster . |
| 11 | I was feeding him some biscuits and then went to kick a ball . |
| 12 | Make more use of your tutors — compile a list of queries and then arrange to see a tutor for help . |
| 13 | Becky enjoyed the new play despite a girl called Amanda giggling all the way through the first act and then refusing to hold a conversation with her during the interval . |
| 14 | At once , she picked up the gold key from the table , unlocked the little door into the garden , and then began to eat a piece of mushroom . |
| 15 | Angered by the incident , Blower demanded a written apology and then threatened to take a writ out against McAvennie . |
| 16 | This could arise if the plaintiff suffered negligently inflicted injuries and then refused to have a blood transfusion because of his religious beliefs . |
| 17 | Recently there has been a certain amount of paranoia from agents who have been tied to short-term agreements , and then have lost a band to the highest bidder just as the act is becoming successful . |
| 18 | Investing a fortune and then upping sticks a couple of years later is generally a recipe for being out of pocket . |
| 19 | Ea transgene copy number ( Figure 2D ) was determined by Southern blots of DNA derived from transgenic mice spleens , digested with the restriction enzyme Kpn I , and then hybridised using a DNA probe specific for the second exon of Ea . |
| 20 | The hand disappeared and then reappeared holding a key . |
| 21 | and then want to eat a lot , so it 's like , it 's like acidy |
| 22 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 23 | For six months he was a sub-editor , but then began to write a column for the paper called ‘ By the Way ’ . |
| 24 | Silvia had stuck to her promises for the first couple of days , but then had followed a catalogue of excuses and cancelled lessons that had left Ronni feeling angry and on edge . |
| 25 | A pity , perhaps , but then attempting to stay a step ahead is one of the great motivating factors in the sport , is n't it ? |
| 26 | A friend at the Bar estimated to me in 1981 that a youngster of ability on the common law side can go up to eight or ten thousand pounds , but then tends to reach a plateau . |
| 27 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |