Example sentences of "then [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A compromise was eventually negotiated in which the space to the west of the building , originally planned as a garden , was devoted instead to a car park and to compensate for this loss of amenity , the Historic Buildings Council then agreed to pay for the provision of the jetty and roof garden . |
| 2 | She pushed back her hair where it had slipped from the bandanna , then tried to shrug off the tension with a sigh . |
| 3 | The committee then adjourned to meet at the Blenheim coffee house , New Bond Street , on 1 2 January 1 79 1 . |
| 4 | Beryl chatted with one or two of the bystanders then lingered to look at the cards on the wreaths and this annoyed Francis . |
| 5 | The glass moved more smoothly , more quickly , then came to rest at the figure zero . |
| 6 | She turned , then seemed to disappear behind the waterfall . |
| 7 | He stared at the house for a long moment , then turned to lean on the gate and gaze down the hillside . |
| 8 | Ratagan belched , raised his mug to the other customers , then turned to lean on the bar again . |
| 9 | Bicker stared at Finnan for a long moment , then turned to take in the rest of the company . |
| 10 | He stopped in his tracks , scanned the window opposite for some minutes , then turned to walk into the building much more slowly and thoughtfully than before . |
| 11 | McIllvanney said angrily , then turned to look at the yard where a silver-grey stretch limo , its windows tinted black against the sun , rolled ponderously to park beside the stairs to his office . |
| 12 | She stretched with remembered delight , then turned to look at the man lying so quietly next to her . |
| 13 | Having subdued the Fatimids and re-established his authority in Antioch , Basil then returned to deal with the challenge in the Balkans . |
| 14 | Ferrasse , rightly , explained that the former coach has already been punished for his misdemeanour , and he then threatened to resign from the Board unless the Dubroca issue was allowed to rest . |
| 15 | Debbie disappeared just the same and then rang to ask for the money . |
| 16 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 17 | He dabbled in the long jump until the age of twenty-four and then decided to switch to the sprints . |
| 18 | She tried it for a week , and then , then went to live with the Americans , and said the food was too fattening . |
| 19 | We called at Penndon museum which was closed , but looks good , and then went to look at the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway which has plenty of rolling stock . |
| 20 | I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes . |
| 21 | But they then had to contend with the response that faith itself might be interpreted as an ‘ inner work ’ , a good deed of the mind . |
| 22 | The Tri-star jet was two hours late on take-off from Heathrow , and then had to abort on the runway at lift-off point due to a sudden failure of one of the engines . |
| 23 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |
| 24 | Those who found the fee then had to cram for the multiple-choice examination , learning words and grammatical phrases even native speakers would find difficult . |
| 25 | But he then had to get across the gully and connect up the wires to brin' this lot down on top of us . ’ |
| 26 | We divided the material into six programmes which we then had to clear with the Cabinet Office under an agreement that had been made with the Broadlands Archives Trust . |
| 27 | Riven started towards her instinctively , but then halted to check on the battle . |
| 28 | The result was that other departments er particularly the fitters for example er who were still working on the old scheme , wanted to , they then wanted to come onto the scheme . |