Example sentences of "and then [vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We took a rickety public bus with him twenty miles out of town and then struck out on foot for several hours into the wilderness . |
| 2 | Oldham 's joy was complete when , 10 minutes later , the effervescent Ritchie fed Irwin and then ran on to head home the full-back 's cross for his second goal and Oldham 's third . |
| 3 | No windows no doors no nothing er you know , completely gutted it to make it all , to renovate it and then ran out of money and then it just stood there completely empty . |
| 4 | ‘ Graham led from the first lap to the 97th at Monaco , and then ran out of oil . |
| 5 | And then they 're hung on by pegs and then touched underneath with mortar to stop them lifting off , that grey sort of er it 's to stop them lifting off . |
| 6 | She took hers ‘ on the rocks ’ as I believe they say in America and then filled up with water and I realized it was only broached for me . |
| 7 | The barrel vault of semi-circular section was used for smaller buildings and was generally divided into rectangular compartments , with brick construction supported on wood centering and then filled in with concrete . |
| 8 | Bates trailed 3–0 in the final set against Black , his doubles partner this week , and went to the front for the first time in the match when he broke for 6–5 and then served out for victory . |
| 9 | She watched him leave the kitchen , sighed furiously and then stared blankly into space . |
| 10 | It is a sad fact that these ponies have to be born at all , but hundreds are , every year , bred on our moorlands and then rounded up during autumn to be sold for a pittance at the sale . |
| 11 | The Ellerman & Bucknall ladies team won their heat and then went on to victory in the final . |
| 12 | He now removed it briefly to say , ‘ You are a nice lady , ’ and then went off in search of a gun . |
| 13 | Prost won out in the end and then went off in persuit of Hill … |
| 14 | But definitely so he sort of went on his own and then went back into building and decorating and then when the Empire opened he started there from the off . |
| 15 | I found work but I did n't tell them I had nowhere to stay , that when it was night time , I got on the night buses and stayed there until morning and then went back to work . |
| 16 | The power of the sun would then be harvested by an array of silicon or gallium arsenide solar cells and then beamed back to earth by microwave and converted into low-frequency , alternating current electricity and fed into the USA 's grid . |
| 17 | We rose to greet her and then settled back into place like so many fluttering pigeons . |
| 18 | Otherwise it was a tiny Citroën or a moped , both clapped out , and having to be run with at high speed down the hill and then jumped on with alacrity . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the hostages were to be transferred to a safe house in Cyprus and then spirited away by sea . |
| 20 | In the end , EGBT were willing to put in more money for a more environmentally-friendly mode of working , and we agreed that the planings would be off-loaded at the end of the path , and then ferried in on dumper trucks . |
| 21 | But then they were torn apart by the skilful Portuguese , who scored three goals in eight minutes and then stormed on to victory . |
| 22 | Several aspects of French Country Cooking were roughed out in pencil by Bobby and then worked over in ink by Minton and imprinted with his own personal style . |
| 23 | The package to be updated is read from LIFESPAN , updated to reference the modules to be incorporated in the baseline , and then entered back into LIFESPAN . |
| 24 | Somewhere in the house she was sure a handle was turned quietly , a door was opened and then closed again with care . |
| 25 | There was a long pause while Finch committed murder in his heart , and then sat up in bed with his cello and played arpeggios . |
| 26 | Just as in-service education does not work if it has not been tailored to match the stage or condition of the teacher who is to benefit from it , so the manager can not manage unless the method and style of management are acceptable and unless its purposes have been first unravelled and then knitted together after consultation between the manager and the manager 's colleagues . |