Example sentences of "then [vb -s] [adv prt] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally a series starts this way , then veers off on a tangent to do with steering wheel size or some other imponderable . |
| 2 | He finishes after a bit and then jumps up on the window ledge . |
| 3 | Sir Roy Strong stumbles off the block with his opening sentence ‘ The portrait was a child of the renaissance ’ , which seems to have forgotten about classical antiquity , but then sets off on a thought-provoking and terse survey of themes and ideas throughout the three centuries covered by the book . |
| 4 | He hitch-hikes to San Francisco , lives briefly in a commune , and then sets off on a journey with two of its members , Lockett and Meridith . |
| 5 | He comes home at 8am to snatch an hour 's snooze and then sets off on the bus for a full day 's preaching to the people whose failing legs ca n't get them to church . |