Example sentences of "then it [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But then it requires a fair amount of imagination to picture this place without seeing it . |
| 2 | Then it became a residential nursery before the social services took it over five years ago . ’ |
| 3 | So before that it was a National Song , and then it became a National Anthem , eighteen fifty-two , before your time , I should think , eighteen fifty-two . |
| 4 | But when I joined the Velvet Underground , then it became a little bit more subliminal . |
| 5 | It started out as a little ripple in the sea then it became an enormous wave it rose into the air then smashed against the breaker , the breaker broke into two . |
| 6 | Then it installed a common reporting system . |
| 7 | Seven minutes before the interval Duncan Ferguson smashed a header against the crossbar as the home side piled on the pressure , then it took a diving header from Grant Tierney to take a David Robertson cross off Mark Hateley 's toe . |
| 8 | She only took her sunglasses off when she was inside the dark little shop but even then it took a few moments for her eyes to adjust . |
| 9 | It is our feeling that the council needs to be encouraged to take that attitude because if we have a change of policy as the District Council are asking , so that the number of sites released from industrial use is compensated by new green field sites being allocated , then it seems a little bit like a blank cheque to us and we should like to see a firmer control on the amount of land that is lost to development and in seeing that firmer control we 'd like to put pressure on the District Council by not offering them compensation |
| 10 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |
| 11 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
| 12 | Then it follows a former railway line to Woodhall Spa before crossing fenland on its way to the cathedral city of Lincoln . |
| 13 | Not only does tephrachronology enable a far-flung ash to be uniquely identified , but if the ash can be independently dated at any single locality by isotopic methods , then it provides a firm foundation on which to build the history of a volcano . |
| 14 | ‘ If you are delayed , for whatever reason , from doing the above , then it causes a knock-on delay throughout the whole system . |
| 15 | If reality is an illusion that we create — no more ‘ real ’ than Middle Earth or Valhalla — then it raises an important question . |