Example sentences of "and then [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICI Chlor-Chemicals takes salt solution from its brine fields and turns it first into chlorine and then into a host of downstream products . |
| 2 | P.S. They cook good western food here , and I am enjoying it now and then as a change from Chinese . |
| 3 | This fall in oil production jolted the process of economic management , particularly since the leadership had become accustomed to a high level of revenues after the OPEC price increases , first during the campaign to this end in the early 1970s and then as a by-product of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 4 | The punishment started with a fine … and then with a ban on keeping animals . |
| 5 | She found herself telling him about the Vermeer she had been painstakingly copying , and then with a shudder of its destruction . |
| 6 | Once he had cleared the body , the master embalmer rinsed it through , first with palm wine , and then with a solution of coriander . |
| 7 | And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside . |
| 8 | ‘ Very well , thank you , ’ she replied politely and then with a trace of irony in her voice , added , ‘ I finished Buddenbrooks and walked only in the garden . |
| 9 | Mr Shillington , originally Anglican , became friendly , first with some Moravians , and then with a group of Methodists in Country Antrim . |
| 10 | Since the tournament began , first in Delray Beach in 1985 and then for a couple of years in Boca Raton , the temporary , scaffolding-supported stands have gone with them . |
| 11 | A man came into her house asking after a neighbour and then for a glass of water . |
| 12 | He certainly liked Alix , and after the demo he took her off for lunch in a pub and then for a walk to his room in King 's , where he showed her his pots and his paintings . |
| 13 | Defries pointed to the winged creatures spiralling down towards them , and then to a contingent of androids shuffling along the girder . |
| 14 | From Thomas Jones , who had been so frightened by Thelwall 's oratory , stories concerning the ‘ emigrant family ’ at Alfoxden passed first to Charles Mogg — a former servant at the house — and then to a cook in the household of Dr Daniel Lysons of Bath . |
| 15 | Describing London as ‘ a city of illusions , subject every now and then to a series of harsh awakenings ’ , The Echo ( 11 August 1898 ) believed that while some of the stones were undoubtedly exaggerated they nevertheless served a purpose : ‘ We steadily shut our eyes to the submerged lawlessness of less fortunate districts until a series of Whitechapel outrages , or Hooligan exploits , make us not only aware of what is going on , but actually afraid of our lives . ’ |
| 16 | We moved to another flat and then to a maisonette on the same estate . |
| 17 | couple of things we saw each other and then over a space of about two months we saw each other probably about three times |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd better get the glucose testing kit , ’ she mumbled as she edged towards the French window that led into the breakfast-room and then along a passage to the suite of rooms used by Faye and Bill . |
| 19 | We had driven for five hours in open lorries through a rainstorm , climbing into the foothills of the Alps and then across a wilderness of a training area , with sharp mountains and expanses of harsh , windblown moorland . |
| 20 | By the time this chore was finished , I was so tired I fell into a doze on the veranda , dreaming of a Gauguin nude of Aleena 's grandmother , and then of a painting of Tiare and her daughter , and then how easy it would be if they could all come and live with me and we could just hang the pictures on the walls and enjoy them . |
| 21 | They talked a lot during dinner and then after a couple of brandies , went up to the bedroom . |
| 22 | And then after a couple of weeks he still could n't get on with his computer , so he came back . |
| 23 | I 'm I 'm a site agent for Tarmac Construction at erm I attend quite a few erm presentations really , tender interviews often going to the clients management meetings , site meetings and then like a lot of you the one to one situation . |
| 24 | We also going to identify at an early stage the financial resources that will be in next year in order to meet our obligation with identifying worthwhile all the time and then by a course of are reserved er to , to support |
| 25 | Otherwise he was educated at home , at first by his mother and then by a succession of tutors . |
| 26 | It is followed by a section on specific entry requirements and then by a section for each of our eight faculties giving a description of the courses offered and of any special arrangements which apply to a particular faculty . |
| 27 | Make it into a a thick layer , and then in a day of so , the juice from the would have soaked into this second class hay and er you used to mix it with a fork and load it into into bags . |
| 28 | You have a term and then in a middle of the term you have a half term do n't you ? |
| 29 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 30 | Boxes , portrait miniatures and then in a section of its own in the centre of the display , the works of Carl Fabergé in the high days of Tsarist glory . |