Example sentences of "[noun prp] then [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Fears that Steffi Graf 's foot injury was worse than first thought , were allayed after the defending women 's champion put in six hours of practice at Wimbledon on Saturday then practised for two hours yesterday at a club in west London .
2 Branson then spoke to the Clarkes on the telephone .
3 Mr Gorbachev then warned against ‘ voices … being raised in West Germany demanding the re-establishment of Germany under its 1937 borders ’ .
4 When they arrived , it appears that Mr Morley then fired through his letterbox .
5 Scott then retired with his family on 12th August to the Oatlands Park Hotel , near Chertsey , for a few days respite .
6 Corbett then turned on his heel and strode out of the room and made his way back up the alley .
7 Benstede and Corbett then sat at the edge of a table directly beneath the great dais just as a chorus of trumpets brayed .
8 Harold Lever then spoke to his own paper .
9 It was in trying to forge the necessary alliances and to equip the essential forces that Edward then came into conflict with the laity and the clergy at home .
10 Lands to the value of 300 marks were found for him in England , but half the endowment was found by persuading Guy de Blois , another French hostage , to surrender to Edward the County of Soissons , worth 500 marks a year , which Edward then granted to the new Earl of Bedford .
11 Whitlock closed the door behind Eddie and Rachel Kruger then returned to the lounge and slumped dejectedly onto the sofa .
12 Cary then disappears from view .
13 Alfonso then returned to Barcelona , leaving Richard to devastate the estates of the Count of Périgord and his friends .
14 Ballantyne scored a try which cancelled out a strike by Mike Debusk then sent in Keith Johnston for a second .
15 Christopher then embarked on a diatribe about the difficulties of an expeditionary force in hiatus .
16 England then equalised with a controversial Webb penalty seven minutes before the break to leave it 3–3 at the interval .
17 The W then decays to an electron and a neutrino .
18 The lake has no drainage system — excess water flows south to the marshes of Lake Poopo then evaporates into sand — so the last of Peru was a sodden plain fringed by snow-capped mountains .
19 Jocelyn and Jane then went to Tom 's bar .
20 Daniel Hersheson then set to work on Pamela 's hair , cutting it into a more tailored and modern style .
21 Incredibly , Flashman then posed for pictures with his wife , smiling as though nothing had happened .
22 South Belfast SDLP councillor Dorita Field then objected to the Policy and Resources Committee decision for Mr Empey and his deputy , Eric Smyth , to attend the Thiepval ceremony , due to take place on Sunday .
23 The second of the two brothers also died soon after the events I have described , and it is probable that Gunhilda then returned to Wilton , for she was later remembered there with honour .
24 Ossie Ardiles then took to the witness stand and admitted he had paid Swindon Town players a tax-free bonus after taking over as manager from Lou Macari .
25 Underhill then turned on me and bit me on the back of the hand .
26 Louis then swore in the lingua romana , so that Charles 's men would understand him : For the love of God and for the Christian people and for our common salvation , from this day henceforth , as far as God grants that I know and can , I shall so help this my brother Charles with my aid and in all things , as every man ought in right to help his brother , on condition that he does the like for me .
27 Nijinsky then went to Longchamp as a hot favourite for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , but there , under a less-than-brilliant ride from Piggott , he tasted defeat for the first time , beaten a head by Sassafras .
28 Robert then spoke to my mother about the time when they were young .
29 He spent his first summer from Cambridge in leisurely visits to his family , staying first with his brother Edward in Salisbury then travelling to Ottery for one of the few lengthy returns he had made since childhood .
30 Lord Denning then turned to the claim that the minister had acted improperly .
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