Example sentences of "and then on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , one could take a random sample of the battalions first and then on through the companies and platoons until the actual individual soldiers were sampled only from a limited number of platoons instead of from the whole brigade . |
| 2 | From the depths below the gas flowed silently and invisibly up its pipes , through the processors and then on across the bed of the sea to the site at Bacton . |
| 3 | No patients would be identified and the information would be confidentially passed to the British Medical Association and then on to the Home Office . |
| 4 | A quick cup of tea with Ewen and then on to the Loganair Twin Otter which slithered up the slushy runway and took the over-sea route to avoid the worst weather en route to Barra stopping at Benbecula . |
| 5 | It was n't even properly on the Foulness road , but a track from the road led to it , and then on to the camp ; about a quarter of a mile away . |
| 6 | She was bum up in the air , small head to one side ‘ gnawing her way through Donald 's portion and then on to the rest of the poisoned carcass of the chicken , which Henry added to her plate . |
| 7 | All lighting circuits are radial ones — that is one cable goes from the fuseway in the consumer unit to the first light position , and then on to the second , and so on to the last on the circuit . |
| 8 | We were scheduled to fly out over East Anglia and the North Sea , crossing the coast of Holland and then on to the Ruhr as far as Cologne , returning over the same route . |
| 9 | They went there in the middle of that morning , passing through the gate in the garden wall and along the cliff-path for a few hundred yards and then on to the golf-course . |
| 10 | He swerved and avoided the worst of the impact , but was catapulted on to the bonnet of the car and then on to the pavement . |
| 11 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 12 | As she headed for the path that crossed the garden to the pool and then on to the pine forest and olive grove , she heard one solitary , impassioned call that hung hauntingly in the hot air . |
| 13 | ‘ Stephen , we promised to go to Danny and Pauline 's for drinks and then on to the Bagatelle . ’ |
| 14 | Now you may want to leave everything to your surviving spouse and then on to the children , that 's natural . |
| 15 | Stage migration occurs when a peasant moves to a provincial town for some time and then on to the city . |
| 16 | Much of the film shows the painter simply going about his task , first scratching outlines on parchment and then on to the canvas . |
| 17 | It would roll around on the carpet , then leap on to the piano and then on to the pianist 's lap , where it would start licking the hands that played the magic notes . |
| 18 | Not looking at the cows , but keeping her eyes fixed straight ahead , she pushed her bike past them and then on to the footpath . |
| 19 | As they lifted him on to a stretcher and then on to the jeep the blanket slipped away from his shoulders revealing his red hair and a very white arm covered in freckles . |
| 20 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |