Example sentences of "[conj] then [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up until then the beleaguered Addamax stood to win no matter how the government decided since it was being bid by both Planning Research Corp and its rival Control Data Systems Inc . |
| 2 | Up until then the beleaguered Addamax stood to win no matter how the government decided since it was being bid by both PRC and its rival Control Data Systems . |
| 3 | Up until then the labouring people may have enjoyed only basic material fare , " but most of them were able to support their families in an average year without having to resort to the parish for relief " . |
| 4 | And then no shitting in the toilets . |
| 5 | They radiate some 2 yards out from this central point , and then no further effect is obvious immediately . |
| 6 | So how far do you actually want God to forgive you up to three times and then no more you know it 's it 's that kind of er question that we 're asking and that we that I feel that is something we should be thinking about that how far should a Christian go in forgiving . |
| 7 | And then a great lurch and pit-pat pit-pat pat-pat-pat-pat-pat-pat-pat , racing until she wanted to hold it , rein it in , for this was surely worse , this would overtax the heart muscles , until it fell , exhausted , this was a race to death . |
| 8 | George felt rather than saw the swing of the camera that was aiming over his own left shoulder at Gerrard , felt it move backward , and then a great surge of apprehension came up into his chest , drying his mouth and clogging his throat . |
| 9 | Wonder why — and then a great green carpet of lawn , and shrubs and trees , and , way beyond them , the far hills . |
| 10 | And then a great wave breaks over me and I emerge into full consciousness . |
| 11 | He lowered the gun and got control of himself , then raised it again , but the laughter returned : a grimace , a flutter , and then a great stream of bubbles inside , floating up , jouncing his chest , until tears blurred the figures in the scope . |
| 12 | And then a great scientist , Rassilon , led the people into the scientific age . |
| 13 | The lake was fringed with a shore of sandy pebbles and then a great curve of grass swept up to the terrace of thr house . |
| 14 | the whole lot and then a four down there it would have been four but four Os only one S. |
| 15 | Gorbachev , visiting Lithuania in January 1990 , had unexpectedly promised that legislation would be introduced allowing republics to become fully independent ; but the law on secession , approved on 3 April 1990 , specified a two-thirds majority in a referendum on the issue and then a transitional period of up to five years in which territorial , property and other issues would be resolved . |
| 16 | She writes that , indeed , when there were balls or fêtes , there was sometimes a queue for the public lavatories , and then a rich bourgeois might pay a nobleman 's servant as much as four louis d'or to be conducted to his master 's privy . |
| 17 | The danger is of a breakdown , in the disorientation of excess of information , the compass needle going wild as multiple pulls drag it hither and thither , and then a self-defensive shutting off of information and lapse into irrationalism . |
| 18 | Drenching even a few rooms , with foam and then a chemical spray seems to me a high penalty for catching what American police forces call a perpetrator . |
| 19 | And then a scintillating piece of fielding from Graeme Hick . |
| 20 | Isabel heard a yell from behind and above them , swiftly running feet , and then a sinister rush of air . |
| 21 | He almost flinched and then a sardonic smile twisted his lips . |
| 22 | Which came mercifully swiftly , in the shape of another devastatingly accurate straight left , and then a perfect right uppercut which hardly seemed to travel more than a foot , but which was delivered with such a force that it lifted Mike up on to his toes , before toppling him backwards in a heap at his elder brothers ' feet . |
| 23 | And then a tentative voice called from the darkness . |
| 24 | In their recall task the subjects were asked to watch the silent film , and then a deaf or hearing person was introduced who had not seen the film . |
| 25 | By then both men were heavy-legged and Mason 's inexperience at this level of boxing looked like becoming a decisive factor until he closed in and sent the American down with a short right to the temple and then a following left hook . |
| 26 | So generally to make it , to make it straightforward , I tend to er differentiate , so that I 've got some in the ta the non-taxpayer 's name up to the limit , and then a joint account perhaps which will be usable by both of them er for instant access , that type of thing . |
| 27 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 28 | ‘ They do 40 lengths as a warm-up and then a gruelling sequence of exercises in the water . |
| 29 | The candidates faced hours of written exams , manoeuvres and then a gruelling road test through Milton Keynes . |
| 30 | The city saw much conflict during El Cid 's campaigns , as the ebb and flow of conquest and recovery gave it first a Christian master and then a Moorish one . |