Example sentences of "then [vb past] [adv prt] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had a plain smooth bodice to the hips , then flared out in a lot of little points , like petals . |
| 2 | He drove on through and then turned around in a gateway and cruised back more slowly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | GUNMEN wounded three Roman Catholic taxi drivers in the centre of Belfast yesterday then sped off in a car as police gave chase . |
| 5 | The cyclists then struck out in a north easterly direction up the A505 through Hitchin , Letchworth and Baldock to our first stage finish at Royston . |
| 6 | The track had climbed , twisted , rocked her in its pot-holes and then swept down in a flurry of loose stones and flying dust , to a house gradually lit , theatrically , as the sun returned from behind a stray afternoon cloud . |