Example sentences of "then [vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cantered back and forth on the gravel beach , then rode off through a corn field . |
| 2 | Then got up for a pee . |
| 3 | The coaching committee in fact , had originally settled for four boxers but then included a fifth and Crowley then got in as a result of tremendous pressure from the body of the floor . |
| 4 | To try out the 238 Syncaset I recorded a track using a drum machine on tracks 1–2 , rhythm guitar doubled onto tracks 3 and 4 ( then mixed and bounced onto track 8 , then bounced again through a compressor/noise gate back onto track 3 ) , bass guitar onto track 4 , harmony lead guitars onto tracks 5 and 6 ( again bounced onto track 8 and mixed back to track five with delay ) , lead vocal on track 6 , first vocal harmony detuned using the pitch control on track 7 and second harmony in normal pitch on track 8 . |
| 5 | He then staggered uphill to a courting couple and pleaded : ‘ Help me , I think they have murdered my girlfriend and burned her alive . ’ |
| 6 | I was a European top salesman with er that company and then moved on as a franchise . |
| 7 | He talked about the murder victim sprawled across the pavement , and then wandered off into a conversation about a comedian called Ken Dodd . |
| 8 | STUART then came up with a solution . |
| 9 | We then came up against a stop , and as I said a moment ago , our choice was between that budget , as negotiated , and the Labour budget , and I 've just shown you one hole in that budget . |
| 10 | Oxfordshire have had the toughest task of all against the championship leaders Glamorgan at swansea … they got some early wickets but then came up against a chap called Richards … |
| 11 | Too early to know , say officials , and anyway that question really has a different target : it was the press and Wall Street that got euphoric in the early days of war , and then came down with a bump , not the administration . |
| 12 | Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship . |
| 13 | Being Ireland , they ended up by eating three teas , then roared out to a singing pub in Howth , then went for a major curry before returning for a ‘ little party ’ in a student house . |
| 14 | Significant information about people and definitions of unfamiliar or important terms , can be quickly recorded on a small card ( usually 13cms x 8cms is adequate ) and then filed alphabetically in a box , marked either " BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX " or " GLOSSARY " . |
| 15 | It had a plain smooth bodice to the hips , then flared out in a lot of little points , like petals . |
| 16 | He drove on through and then turned around in a gateway and cruised back more slowly . |
| 17 | Passing the Blacksmith 's Arms , we followed the road to the left , then turned left up a hill past the Lastingham Grange . |
| 18 | I put fifty metres of road behind us , then turned left down a footpath , figuring the best thing was to jink cross country , not lay a straight path . |
| 19 | I dipped down into a valley , crossed into another field — moving faster and faster — and then climbed up towards a thicket . |
| 20 | The officers then climbed on to a porch and smashed the windows but were still unable to reach the victims . |
| 21 | The agent then walked away with a constable , ostensibly in arrest , but whether they spent the day over the brow of the hill twiddling their thumbs I can not say . |
| 22 | The illustrations from My ABC are also available in 13 separate sheets intended to be coloured in by individuals or groups and then hung up as a mural to decorate the walls of the classroom . |
| 23 | Summoning her courage , she pushed past him into the gangway between the stalls , then leapt aside as a porter nearly ran her over with a loaded trolley . |
| 24 | She made her way through the village and out the other side , then pulled over into a gateway by a field and cried her eyes out . |
| 25 | The match then settled down to a midfield battle , with neither side risking any mistakes . |
| 26 | That was deemed to be 15 seconds too long , Sam was penalised one shot then bowed out in a play-off to old foe Mark ‘ Jesse ’ James who gunned him down by holing an outrageous downhill put on the self-same green the following evening . |
| 27 | He paced the room , then lay down for a while , hands clasped behind his head . |
| 28 | I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand . |
| 29 | Two Asian students Perveen Akraman and Shanaz Anwar began by improving their language skills , then went on to a beauty care course for women and recently they both enrolled on a car maintenance course . |
| 30 | Left the daddy 's list with Mr Moore ( of Moore 's Models ) and then went off for a bit of a stroll around . |