Example sentences of "[conj] then [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What emerges is an attitude of resourcefulness that eventually grows into a mood of self-sufficiency and then into independence . |
| 2 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 3 | From the 1970s on , he expanded first into US newspapers ( the New York Post , for example ) and then into film and TV , buying control of Metromedia and Twentieth Century Fox ( whose massive film archive could feed his TV channels ) . |
| 4 | well the best way , well the way I always go is through Barbon , through Barbon and then into Dent and Dane is strung out about five mile or six mile you know it 's just er Dane in itself is so lovely you get over from Barbon |
| 5 | It runs past Germany , Denmark and Holland and then into sort of North Sea and the Rhine comes in it and it 's terribly |
| 6 | At 26 Mr MacConachie went into banking with Lloyds and then into finance with the Ford Motor Company , rising to a senior management position during ‘ ten very happy years ’ working all over the UK . |
| 7 | Very few witnesses had been found who were prepared to come to court to repeat their statements in the flesh , but some did and their words were translated first into English and then into German , causing some confusion as to the precise meaning of what they had actually said . |
| 8 | The potentially unifying effects of their different but complementary experiences of racism are dismissed , while the inclusive and openly politicized definitions of ‘ race ’ which were a notable feature of the late seventies have been fragmented into their ethnic components , first into Afro-Caribbean and Asian and then into Pakistani , Bangladeshi , Bajan , Jamaican and Guyanese in a spiral . |
| 9 | ‘ So now you go and tramp the streets changing your traveller 's cheques into cash and then into traveller 's cheques signed Winterbotham . |
| 10 | He had seen men come and go ; squads of them went through their training and came out bright-eyed WOP-AIRs thirsting to get on to an aerodrome to finish their training and then into action . |
| 11 | And now the second verse is who , she 's as generous as Robin Hood and all his merry men , she 's as kind as Florence Nightingale and then as kind again , right super mum she has x- ray vision , she can |
| 12 | She 's as generous as Robin Hood and all his merry men , she 's as kind as Florence Nightingale and then as kind again , right super mum she has x-ray vision , she can see through me , with a voice or rival calm when she called me in for tea , |
| 13 | Sir Leonard has had a distinguished with I B M which included being seconded by I B M to the National Health Service Management Board , first as Director of Personnel and then as Chairman of the Board . |
| 14 | He had already gained experience of some of the economic problems of the post-war economy in his role as minister at the Board of Trade , from April 1921 to October 1922 , and then as Chancellor of the Exchequer from October 1922 until May 1923 . |
| 15 | From 1538 , Mary , widow of Francis of Orleans , duke of Longueville , and then aged twenty-three , spent her life first as the wife of James V , when she fulfilled her function as queen by producing two sons , only to see both of them die , and then as queen dowager fighting to maintain her daughter 's interests . |
| 16 | A long-standing Mitterrand ally , he worked as Secretary-General in the President 's office from 1981 and then as Minister for Social Affairs and National Solidarity in 1982-84 . |
| 17 | As our papers were in English and not German , we spent the next hour or so being rejected , first at Gate One and then at Gate Six . |
| 18 | She studied at the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women , and then at University College , Aberystwyth , and at the extramural School of Medicine for Women , Edinburgh . |
| 19 | At school one did a certain amount of chemistry , and then at university one did what was possibly a slightly different subject . |
| 20 | As I sat there first at EDC [ Economic Development Committee ] and then at Home Affairs , I reflected on the way that Cabinet Committees as well as the Cabinet itself are becoming part of the dignified element of the English constitution . |
| 21 | Being in France and Spain and then at home . |
| 22 | On Saturday Mrs Totteridge had ridden in the morning and then at lunchtime had checked her goat with the attendant events from which the whole enquiry had followed . |
| 23 | and then at lunchtime er first day we went out for lunch somewhere but erm |
| 24 | Sleeping all day and then at night time |
| 25 | As the patients improved , the duration of NIPPV was reduced , at first during the day , and then at night . |
| 26 | During the day , there 's A-levels to study for and then at night it is back into the pool at Aylesbury , where hopefully there 's gold medals to train for . |
| 27 | I get one in the morning and then at night . |
| 28 | And then at night egg and chips , cos she knows Tony likes chips or chops and ooh . |
| 29 | Well one of you on cleaning fruit , getting all the stalks and stones out of the fruit , we used to have a sieve , not a riddle , a sieve with round , the wires were round in the sieve and you rub it , and the stalks would drop through and then you 'd put them out onto an iron baking sheet and sort out all the stones that and little bits that were in the fruit and you 'd be on cleaning fruit you might be one day , the other whichever one was the you 'd be cleaning and greasing baking tins , ready for the baker to put the cakes in or what have you , and then at night we used to grease all the bread tins ready for men to be allowed to drop the dough into the bread tins , and er stuff like that and cleaning up scrubbing down and |
| 30 | And then at nighttime we used to come down to the , if we , if we did n't go in Baths which was smashing , it was absolutely great , had two piers and a , a diving board , er and a deep end and a , and a shallow end for kids . |