Example sentences of "then [vb pp] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He showed him the work of Karl Barth , who , though a Swiss , then taught at the Protestant faculty at Münster in North-West Germany , and was the leader of European reaction against the conventional liberal schools of divinity . |
| 2 | We passed two ruined abbeys , one with a tower and one without , and then stopped at a four-house township . |
| 3 | The first was that Stirling had promised his men that they would never be subjected to the indecisions of the Commando days when operation after operation was planned and then cancelled at the last minute . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , therefore , import penetration increased from the mid 1960s onwards and then moved at an alarming rate in the early 1970s . |
| 5 | The light is then collected at a single detector and classified electrically . |
| 6 | The light is then collected at a single detector and classified electrically . |
| 7 | The Daurog sniffed its own finger , then licked at the glistening nail . |
| 8 | The carton and post are then buried at the required depth . |
| 9 | The probability that any particular animal is included in the study is thus 1÷3 × 1÷5 = 1÷15 , i.e. the probability of its herd being the one selected times the probability of that animal being then sampled at the secondary stage . |
| 10 | I stood , eyes closed , congratulating myself on my newly found sanctity — then cursed at the sharp knock on the door . |
| 11 | The set-environment routine is then entered at the appropriate point . |
| 12 | Sarah kept out of sight , then followed at a careful distance , swinging a basket . |
| 13 | The diaphragm , I read , had to be smeared with spermicide , squeezed tight between fingers and thumb to make it narrow enough , then inserted at an implausible angle . |
| 14 | The gaff raked one wing and the birds circled , necks stretched towards each other , then engaged at the same time , heels clubbing . |
| 15 | As a result , controversial local plans tend to attract numerous objections which are then tested at a local inquiry . |
| 16 | Her huge blue eyes pleaded with him and then darkened at the flagrant desire in his expression . |