Example sentences of "then [adv] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He went back to his room , then out on to the veranda beyond . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The next moment the two of them were running down the drive together and then out on to the road , and Matilda was ahead , pulling Miss Honey after her by her wrist , and it was a wild and wonderful dash they made along the country lane and through the village to the house where Matilda 's parents lived . |