Example sentences of "which then [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The sailors then regrouped and on Saturday marched on the Exchange , which then doubled as the Town Hall , demanding increased wages and paraded around the town .
2 John Aubrey , the famous diarist , described the great stones which then lay around the scene ‘ scattered as the sower does his seed ’ .
3 He was a convinced evolutionist and he thought that one could draw a line from the Egyptian lotus to the Greek palmette and from the Greek palmette to the acanthus which then developed into the arabesque like a biological affiliation .
4 The reduction gear linking engine and propeller had failed and a broadside of bits had hit the prop which then added to the shrapnel .
5 Play at Beaconsfield CC 's six-a-side festival was abandoned after the club 's president Tom Orford , 86 , lost control of his car , which then ran across the pitch and hit a bench near the pavilion , injuring four spectators .
6 meetings with the Poultry Sub Committee which then reported to the Agriculture Sub Committee
7 However , we soon stopped smiling when it started to rain and the wind got up ; the sealant , which had n't yet hardened , started to dilute , and one by one the secondary glazing panels were blown in. the wind started to blow bubbles in the gooey sealant , which then floated around the room , only to burst and leave a sticky mess on the carpets and furniture .
8 What its function was and what relationship it bore to the building-complex which then stood on the site of the later temple has yet to be established .
9 It wrecked a Mercedes-Benz car driving in front of the bus and blew out the windows of the bus , which then crashed into the back of the Mercedes .
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