Example sentences of "then it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it became a residential nursery before the social services took it over five years ago . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But when I joined the Velvet Underground , then it became a little bit more subliminal . |
| 4 | Then it installed a common reporting system . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |