Example sentences of "[vb past] for a [noun sg] and then " in BNC.
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| 1 | It fluttered for a moment and then folded right back against the fuselage , like a roosting bird . |
| 2 | Suzanne Budgen taught for a year and then financed her painting by some work in educational administration and part-time teaching . |
| 3 | It stuck for a moment and then we were outside . |
| 4 | The old lady struggled for a bit and then subsided back into her chair . |
| 5 | They both laughed for a while and then fell silent . |
| 6 | Perhaps if he listened for a bit and then jeered , he would at least be able to jeer from a better-informed position . |
| 7 | Her father came up and listened for a while and then said that he thought it was all marvellous but he did n't understand a word of it . |
| 8 | The doctor thought for a moment and then nodded in agreement . |
| 9 | She thought for a moment and then added brightly : ‘ It sends the water blue ’ . |
| 10 | She thought for a moment and then said , ‘ Well , do they live at ‘ La Felicità ’ all the winter ? |
| 11 | She thought for a moment and then said , ‘ Well , actually I did see someone rather unexpected . |
| 12 | An ear the size of a flying saucer appeared for a moment and then was whisked away and replaced by a no less monstrous nose and half an eye . |
| 13 | She hesitated for a second and then gave Russell her home number . |
| 14 | Tom hesitated for a moment and then walked hurriedly on to the small road back towards the artist 's shop . |
| 15 | It floated for a second and then sank . |
| 16 | She paused for a moment and then went on , ‘ Since thoo told me about t'baby , Aah 've been thinking . |
| 17 | She paused for a moment and then went on . |
| 18 | He paused for a moment and then capitulated totally . |
| 19 | Mr Broadhurst paused for a moment and then resumed . |
| 20 | Topstock paused for a moment and then said , ‘ I think he was responsible for a good many of the Society 's priests . |
| 21 | For despite empty houses on its provincial tour , this wordy , intelligent , seemingly uncommercial verse drama was a success in London , ran for a year and then went over to Broadway . |
| 22 | She waited for a minute and then added , apologetically , ‘ Gran was foul to her , you know that . ’ |
| 23 | She waited for a moment and then walked off to stand in a different part of the ship . |
| 24 | What was stranger still was that she seemed stressed and worried , and kept raising her wings into the wind and bending forward at it and then letting it lift her off her stand to the top of her cage where she stuck out her talons , hovered for a moment and then flopped inelegantly down again to the bare branch . |
| 25 | Mrs Stych faltered for a moment and then realized that she meant Hank . |
| 26 | And then every year after that , they used to hold the one minute 's silence which the mill whistles went and of course you stood for a minute and then they went again and that was it over . |
| 27 | He stood for a moment and then started to go out . |