Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A horrible damp stifling smell then filled his lungs . |
| 2 | Fearful of the growing possibilities of default , the US monetary authorities then pulled sharply on the reins by insisting on tougher capital/asset ratios . |
| 3 | Hair was permed with Bain de Terre Acid Wave for Bleached Hair then left to dry naturally . |
| 4 | The traditional patterns of social organisation with their emphasis on hierarchical differentiation then become a major obstacle to the most efficient use of the technology . |
| 5 | Far away we can hear the noise of the wind forcing its way up some narrow gully then bursting free to hurl itself across the plateau we crossed yesterday . |
| 6 | She pushed a cigarette between her dry lips then fumbled in her coat pocket for a lighter and , cupping her trembling fingers around the flame , lit it and inhaled deeply . |
| 7 | Scheibler is also exhibiting two major watercolours by Joe Zucker , born in Chicago in 1941 and resident in East Hampton : ‘ Backdrops ’ , meaning sketches for his works , in which Zucker , a ‘ painter without a brush ’ , uses woollen socks , gloves , or a ski-mask to apply globs of paint on wood , the calligraphic effect then overlaid with networks of cables . |
| 8 | A higher income still was achieved in the first four years of Elizabeth , but the feudal revenue then fell back to between £12,000 and £14,000 per annum until 1598 , when an upward movement began once more . |
| 9 | ( a ) less than the difference between the total vote then credited to the continuing candidate with the lowest recorded vote and the vote of the candidate with the next lowest recorded vote ; or |
| 10 | British Rail then said that the accident was ‘ caused by a fault in the assembly of one of the bogie 's wheelsets ’ . |
| 11 | You have a view on a public loo then give us a ring , rather seedy unfriendly dirty smelling of urine places if you want my own public opinion . |
| 12 | Applying an external alternating magnetic field then causes the implanted ceramic to heat up . |
| 13 | Bracken House , the former home of the Financial Times , became the first candidate and English Heritage then submitted some 70 recommendations to the Department of the Environment ; these included Bankside . |
| 14 | British courts then disapplied the Act ; after several appeals , the European Court ruled that this suspension was valid , and the 1988 Act was overruled in 1991 . |
| 15 | The German countess then began to speak , but I was at this point , for some reason I do not recollect , obliged to leave the drawing room for an extended period . |
| 16 | The quality of a cultural practice then becomes a matter of its effect , in the moment of its impact . |
| 17 | Sorrels in general were used by the Greeks and Romans for medicinal purposes , and had some medicinal as well as culinary application in mediaeval Britain , but the English sorrel then used ( R. acetosa ) was replaced for culinary purposes by the French version and has been so used until the preset day . |
| 18 | Since there is also other well known evidence collected by Sachs , Kirkpatrick , Zaslaw and others from L'Affilard , Pajot , la Chapelle , Marguet , Quantz , Pasquali , Choquel , Engramelle et al. , indicating that from 1717 to 1775 minuets were danced both fast and slow , anywhere between MM 53 and 80 per bar , is it really likely that it was only during the 1780s that musicians of the time just happened to slow down the minuet , playing only the bottom side of minuet tempos and not the top side then to speed up again afterwards by the 1790s and 1800s ? |
| 19 | The main aim of British units then became to prevent these crossing the River Drau . |
| 20 | , ( William ) Grey ( 1910–1977 ) , neurologist , was born in Kansas City , Missouri , 19 February 1910 , the only child of Karl Walter , a British journalist then working on the Kansas City Star , and his wife Margaret Hardy , an American journalist . |
| 21 | And yeah , wet dream then did n't you ? |
| 22 | got to the old mill then did you ? |
| 23 | Sergeant Murphy and four accompanying gardai then took the men 's names and addresses . |
| 24 | The longitudinal voltage then regains its normal non-zero value ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 25 | The phosphoamino acids were separated by high voltage then layer chromatography on cellulose plates in mixture of pyridine , acetic acid , and water in the ratio 5:50:945 for 1000 volt hours . |
| 26 | The Driver in the case of a light engine then goes to the telephone to inform the Signalman each end of the tunnel and give them all particulars and if blocking both lines . |
| 27 | That was certainly the case until the early 1980s , but British miners then started to lose their jobs to imports . |
| 28 | Oh well it may be a different picture then coming on Wednesday . |
| 29 | Each printer is built as the completed boards then join other components via assembly stations on the ever moving conveyer belt . |
| 30 | Each printer is built as the completed boards then join other components via assembly stations on the ever moving conveyer belt . |