Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] then [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conquistadors ' descendants have often been challenged — from outside by British and then North American capitalists , from within by ( to use the author 's formulation ) ‘ the Communist Party or Arab and Jewish minorities ’ . |
| 2 | Noreen would come on first as before with her song — and then be joined by ‘ Mary ’ who would take the melody while Noreen harmonised and then Maria would conclude with a solo — usually ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ — and they would finish together with ‘ Let Him Go Let Him Tarry ’ , another of the O'Neil family songs which both knew backwards . |
| 3 | ‘ But I was fortunate because then Stoddard took over as a professionally run and profitable company and I 've spent 11 happy years with them . ’ |
| 4 | Presumably the well of fast bowlers will one day run dry and then West Indies will have to devise a new strategy ; after all , India did not fare too badly in the 1960s and '70s with a quartet of spinners . |
| 5 | I actually start off quite good and then right or wrong I mean you find it , god what a pig |
| 6 | Jones , who started his professional career at Wimbledon before moving on to Leeds , Sheffield United and then Chelsea , said he had returned a better player . |
| 7 | yes , and then I feel really hot and then cold and then I start to feel queer . |
| 8 | That 's what I did when Ann was small But then Jerry was n't interested in shopping anyway . |
| 9 | USAAF red-tape would be insurmountable but then providence provided the solution when Tommie had the opportunity of liberating one by ‘ midnight requisition ’ from a damaged P-38 . |
| 10 | Nevin shot over , Aldridge went close and then Higgins hit the bar with a header from Morrissey 's cross . |
| 11 | Twice , Frank Crockford went close and then Alresford extended their lead with another Nigel Clarke penalty . |
| 12 | The introductions last year of massively parallel machines by the likes of Intel Corp , Thinking Machines Corp opened up the parallel market and led to forecasts that they would eventually replace the vector machines first developed by Seymour Cray , who did his pioneering work at the then Control Data Corp before moving on to found Cray Research Inc and then Cray Computer Corp . |