Example sentences of "and then [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looked upwards to the sky : and there , up there , glimpsed now and then between the moving boughs , was the constellation of the great bear … and the pole star . |
| 2 | Its Guelf battlements and towers have witnessed many conflicts between Florentine and Sienese rivals first , and then between the Medici family and Florentine Republic later . |
| 3 | So , submits Mr. Browne , inviting analogy first between discovery in civil and in criminal proceedings , and then between the implied undertaking on the one hand and public interest immunity on the other , this court should now conclude that the immunity too has lapsed : in other words that there no longer remains any public interest in withholding these documents from further dissemination . |
| 4 | Well , yes , just to look at the wh the question of balance of power between the employer on the one hand and the members on the other hand and then between the different categories of members the active payers-in , the pensioners and the deferred pensioners . |
| 5 | The depth of the recession facing Germany means that the boom must fall soon , and then about the only way for Siemens to save the company will be to make a major acquisition that finally puts it onto the world stage . |
| 6 | He began to tell her about Letty and then about the astonishing story that there might be another member of the family tucked away in Scotland . |
| 7 | Secondly , as national incomes rise , the increase in demand generated will be channelled first into the secondary sector and then into the tertiary sector , in accordance with Engel 's Law . |
| 8 | Jack 's full-back partner was ‘ Dusty ’ Rhodes , while behind them was the fabulous Jack Alderson and these three heroes played an amazing sequence of exactly 100 consecutive matches together ( including cup-ties and friendlies ) helping the Palace into the Football League in the process and then into the 2nd Division as the first champions of the newly formed 3rd Division in 1920–21 . |
| 9 | He ran back and into the house , first to his own room , and then into the other half of the cottage , feeling a strange compulsion to find something , as if there were some crucial thing , upon which everything else depended , which was still hidden and must not be left behind . |
| 10 | In front of him , she sealed the cigar butt in the plastic sachet into a small tin box and then into the padded envelope . |
| 11 | He did not wait for the servants to open the doors , but just pushed through into the entrance hall , and then into the great ballroom where a score of painters and upholsterers were finishing a long night 's work during which they had transformed the ballroom into a silk-hung fantasy . |
| 12 | Gold , scarlet and blazing flame I had seen before , but never like this , washing over the low clouds from below , and backed by the most delicate and limpid green which faded to primrose and then into the shadowy greys of the upper sky . |
| 13 | The third section of the essay , then , examines the role of the state — first , in the restructuring of Berlin 's modernizing urban fabric and then as the central antagonist to the city 's ‘ Secession ’ movement in the visual arts . |
| 14 | But how were they to ensure survival in the game , and then at the highest level ? |
| 15 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
| 16 | They have irresponsibly encouraged people to withhold payment , and then at the eleventh hour they have made payments , leaving those poorer people who were foolish enough to follow their appalling example to face the consequences of now owing a lump sum . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Sir Richard Terry , first at Downside Abbey and then at the newly-built Westminster Cathedral , did important work . |
| 18 | Part One ( Chapters 1 to 6 ) looks at the tools needed for plumbing and then at the various pipes and fittings used for the majority of jobs . |
| 19 | he looked down at the two hands locked onto his arm and then at the small man hurrying on ahead , and realized that he still had his chaperons , and once again they were not of his own choosing … |
| 20 | In the middle , humping up the roof like an ungainly pillar , stood the death of William Egan at the hands of Terry Place ; at one end , like a bearing wall , was the whole dead Pitt family , and then at the other end there sprouted , surprisingly , as a kind of ante chapel , the death of the student , Malcolm Kincaid . |
| 21 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 22 | She held the letter over the basket , ready to consign it to being thrown away , and then at the last minute snatched it back and put in in her desk . |
| 23 | Now , if you 're going to er er er er want everything and then at the same time , want to reduce the budget , then I think you 're like the man who wanted a cake an and you 'll find that he wanted to eat it , so I think you 've got to come to terms and be realistic . |
| 24 | For further empirical proof of the theoretical pudding , let us look first at the French , and then at the Italian achievements . |
| 25 | He spent like four hours or something with the attorney general and with these three other staff over there … and they spent most of the time talking about all aspects of the Iran initiative and so forth , and then at the very end Meese pulled out that April memo … and said , ‘ what about this ? ’ |
| 26 | Unlike his cousin , Alexander 's nephew , Sidney Gilchrist Thomas [ q.v. ] , with whom he was to collaborate , Percy received a complete education , first at Felsted School , and then at the Royal School of Mines ( 1868–71 ) , where he trained as a metallurgist and analytical chemist and was Murchison medallist in July 1870 . |
| 27 | Margaret Clifton taught for a time in England , and then at the British Institute School in Madrid . |
| 28 | The Sunnis , adherents of the sunnah ( practice ) of Mohamed — the sayings ( hadith ) ascribed to the Prophet and other Islamic traditions — garnered their commercial power from their close association with the Mamelukes and then with the Ottoman Turks , an alliance based on their shared Sunni faith . |
| 29 | And then with the five pennies we could say well penny between you two , penny between you two , another penny between you two , between you two , an . |
| 30 | He immediately fell out with the managing director , who resigned , and then with the new chairman , respected City figure John Redgrave , who was put into rescue the company by the stockbrokers . |