Example sentences of "and then at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But how were they to ensure survival in the game , and then at the highest level ?
2 They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner .
3 They have irresponsibly encouraged people to withhold payment , and then at the eleventh hour they have made payments , leaving those poorer people who were foolish enough to follow their appalling example to face the consequences of now owing a lump sum .
4 he looked down at the two hands locked onto his arm and then at the small man hurrying on ahead , and realized that he still had his chaperons , and once again they were not of his own choosing …
5 In the middle , humping up the roof like an ungainly pillar , stood the death of William Egan at the hands of Terry Place ; at one end , like a bearing wall , was the whole dead Pitt family , and then at the other end there sprouted , surprisingly , as a kind of ante chapel , the death of the student , Malcolm Kincaid .
6 Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him .
7 She held the letter over the basket , ready to consign it to being thrown away , and then at the last minute snatched it back and put in in her desk .
8 Now , if you 're going to er er er er want everything and then at the same time , want to reduce the budget , then I think you 're like the man who wanted a cake an and you 'll find that he wanted to eat it , so I think you 've got to come to terms and be realistic .
9 He spent like four hours or something with the attorney general and with these three other staff over there … and they spent most of the time talking about all aspects of the Iran initiative and so forth , and then at the very end Meese pulled out that April memo … and said , ‘ what about this ? ’
10 Unlike his cousin , Alexander 's nephew , Sidney Gilchrist Thomas [ q.v. ] , with whom he was to collaborate , Percy received a complete education , first at Felsted School , and then at the Royal School of Mines ( 1868–71 ) , where he trained as a metallurgist and analytical chemist and was Murchison medallist in July 1870 .
11 Margaret Clifton taught for a time in England , and then at the British Institute School in Madrid .
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