Example sentences of "then [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cantered back and forth on the gravel beach , then rode off through a corn field . |
| 2 | Then got up for a pee . |
| 3 | The coaching committee in fact , had originally settled for four boxers but then included a fifth and Crowley then got in as a result of tremendous pressure from the body of the floor . |
| 4 | I was a European top salesman with er that company and then moved on as a franchise . |
| 5 | He talked about the murder victim sprawled across the pavement , and then wandered off into a conversation about a comedian called Ken Dodd . |
| 6 | STUART then came up with a solution . |
| 7 | We then came up against a stop , and as I said a moment ago , our choice was between that budget , as negotiated , and the Labour budget , and I 've just shown you one hole in that budget . |
| 8 | Oxfordshire have had the toughest task of all against the championship leaders Glamorgan at swansea … they got some early wickets but then came up against a chap called Richards … |
| 9 | Too early to know , say officials , and anyway that question really has a different target : it was the press and Wall Street that got euphoric in the early days of war , and then came down with a bump , not the administration . |
| 10 | Being Ireland , they ended up by eating three teas , then roared out to a singing pub in Howth , then went for a major curry before returning for a ‘ little party ’ in a student house . |
| 11 | It had a plain smooth bodice to the hips , then flared out in a lot of little points , like petals . |
| 12 | He drove on through and then turned around in a gateway and cruised back more slowly . |
| 13 | I dipped down into a valley , crossed into another field — moving faster and faster — and then climbed up towards a thicket . |
| 14 | The officers then climbed on to a porch and smashed the windows but were still unable to reach the victims . |
| 15 | The illustrations from My ABC are also available in 13 separate sheets intended to be coloured in by individuals or groups and then hung up as a mural to decorate the walls of the classroom . |
| 16 | She made her way through the village and out the other side , then pulled over into a gateway by a field and cried her eyes out . |
| 17 | The match then settled down to a midfield battle , with neither side risking any mistakes . |
| 18 | That was deemed to be 15 seconds too long , Sam was penalised one shot then bowed out in a play-off to old foe Mark ‘ Jesse ’ James who gunned him down by holing an outrageous downhill put on the self-same green the following evening . |
| 19 | He paced the room , then lay down for a while , hands clasped behind his head . |
| 20 | I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand . |
| 21 | Two Asian students Perveen Akraman and Shanaz Anwar began by improving their language skills , then went on to a beauty care course for women and recently they both enrolled on a car maintenance course . |
| 22 | Left the daddy 's list with Mr Moore ( of Moore 's Models ) and then went off for a bit of a stroll around . |
| 23 | The better pupils then went off to a boarding school . |
| 24 | Sheila puckered her brow with concentration , then looked up with a grin . |
| 25 | GUNMEN wounded three Roman Catholic taxi drivers in the centre of Belfast yesterday then sped off in a car as police gave chase . |
| 26 | Above the fireplace a layer of furry soot clung to the under-surface of the beams : on their upper surface flakes of chaff , from the autumn threshing on the roof , had lodged themselves in pockets , and as she swept , the black and yellow particles cascaded to the ground , then floated up on a cloud of swirling dust . |
| 27 | The cyclists then struck out in a north easterly direction up the A505 through Hitchin , Letchworth and Baldock to our first stage finish at Royston . |
| 28 | The track had climbed , twisted , rocked her in its pot-holes and then swept down in a flurry of loose stones and flying dust , to a house gradually lit , theatrically , as the sun returned from behind a stray afternoon cloud . |
| 29 | Newlove then dived over for a try of his own , with late scores from Offiah and Schofield rubbing salt in Welsh wounds . |
| 30 | She turned and looked at him , then sat up with a gasp of dismay . |