Example sentences of "then [adv] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brenda is in competition with another speaker ( most of whose words are inaudible ) from then right up to the point where she winds up with her Creole " punchline " turaatid , a mildish curse more or less equivalent to " for god 's sake " . |
| 2 | round the barrel about three times round the barrel then right down into the chain locker but if you kept , let it ride what we used to call let it ride well well now it get so big then you have to run it all off cos you had one lever , that 's what you had and the steam valve could have all steamed . |
| 3 | Following Aelfwine 's death in the battle of the Trent against the Mercians in 679 or 680 ( HE IV , 21 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) ( see below , p. 117 ) , Deira was ruled from then on directly by the Bernicians ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.1 ) . |
| 4 | People who had been out together at Castle Menzies , then on down to the Reel of Ballechin , conversed steadily , opening up their private problems to each other with a freedom well beyond the usual . |
| 5 | they want their evening entertainment , then they go off down , then on down to the clubs . |
| 6 | Ellen , who was utterly delighted with her achievement , followed him to spray the churning mess over his hair , then down on to the decks of Dream Baby as Sweetman jumped panic-stricken from our gunwale . |
| 7 | Go right and collect the painting , go left , down , and right along the passage , go down and left along the passage , go down and right along the passage , fall down the gap , and then down again into the clouds , go back to the start , go right and down , go left to the switch , go up on the painted walls , go left and collect the painting , fall down , go right and up on the stairs from the cauldron , go right and into the painting board to complete the level . |
| 8 | Then down again into the Underground . |
| 9 | Then down here we have a couple of day beds for patients who need to rest under observation for the day following treatment but who do n't really justify admission , and then over here we 've got the two theatres for major suturing and cleaning up , and then down there at the end the X-ray and plaster rooms . ’ |
| 10 | The profit from the investment goes to the one being loved and then only indirectly to the lover . |
| 11 | ‘ Then perhaps only to the village . |
| 12 | Right let me just explain then just just for the sake of completeness . |
| 13 | The shortage of Pentiums is so bad the industry has reportedly taken to what some people call ‘ tea-bagging , ’ moving their precious chip supply from system to system to prove to customers their box works , then quickly back to the treasure vault . |
| 14 | The shortage of Pentiums is so bad that those that have them are said to be ‘ tea-bagging ’ them — moving their precious chips from system to system to prove to customers that their box works , then quickly back into the safe . |
| 15 | The Politburo , at its meeting a few days later , described the summit as a ‘ major event in international life ’ whose main result had been the ‘ deepening of the political dialogue between the Soviet Union and the USA ’ ; and the dialogue did , indeed , continue under Reagan 's successor George Bush , first at a storm-tossed ‘ get to know you ’ summit off Malta and then more formally in the course of an official presidential visit to the United States in 1990 . |
| 16 | The words here are linked in pairs with one another for example , ‘ lov 'd … weep ’ , ‘ fortunate … rejoice ’ and then gradually up to the climax , the reason why Caesar was killed , ‘ ambition … slew ’ . |
| 17 | Tail curves gently down and then up again at the tip This is the relaxed cat , at peace with the world . |
| 18 | Although there was a sort of medieval corporation , it did n't have a Royal Charter and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted , and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the Borough Commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in eighteen eighty one . |
| 19 | Although there was a sort of mediaeval corporation it did n't have the royal charter , and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the borough commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in 1881 . |
| 20 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 21 | but then later on in the day he rung back and said he had found some bilingual signs but all he 's got were about four foot square er with census point ahead . |
| 22 | After three months ' travelling in Australia , hitch-hiking has become an addiction ; the stimulation of a new acquaintance , a frank exchange of views , and then back on to the roadside — a self-contained experience without any repercussions . |
| 23 | Okay love , yeah down there around the D at the bottom and then back up to the D at the top |
| 24 | Within that period , however , there were some changes in employment patterns , the most important features being a swing in government service from 7 per cent to 6 per cent in the early 1960s and then back again by the end of the period , and an almost obverse swing in distribution from 11 to 13 per cent and back to 12 per cent . |
| 25 | The helicopter will then back smartly into the ground ! |
| 26 | We have attempted to align a previously independent field of inquiry , cognitive and developmental psychology , with evolutionary biology and particularly sociobiology , and in so doing have constructed an ensemble of models that trace , at times clumsily and imperfectly , behavioural development from the genetic blueprint to the assembly of the nervous system to the learning process — and then back down to the alteration of gene frequencies by natural selection operating within the context of particular cultures . |
| 27 | What they usually do is they go up and then back down by the church |
| 28 | Back home at six in the morning , then out again for the football match duty at half past twelve ( you got 7/6d. for it ) , then back on again at night . |
| 29 | He went back to his room , then out on to the veranda beyond . |
| 30 | Watch your knuckles on the door-frame , ’ warned Tom , as they half slid , half carried the big mattress safely out of the door , then out on to the veranda and down the back stairs to where it would be stored safely off the ground in a large store-room next to the laundry . |