Example sentences of "[coord] then as [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 We drove down the Angel Bank skirting Ludlow , and then as we turned into Corvedale the sun came out and it cleared …
2 And then as we were running out Silver said to Cowslip , " Surely you 're coming ? "
3 Right and then as we go along what have we got going along ?
4 . And then as we were beating you see , inside , through the bushes and all , and a pheasant got up , and we used to shout , , do you see , for them to know that he was coming .
5 The caravan , we 'd like , made sure that nothing happened cos we were renting it , and then as we went through a petrol station , on the way home
6 And then as we was coming home from Pete 's , a chap stopped us and asked us where was so I told him where was he said I 'm looking for a little black and white house I said it 's right there look !
7 And then as we approached the tube station the arm around me again and erm and he
8 They considered the saleability of a washstand , a swinging mirror , a flowered pottery basin and jug , and then as they descended by the back stairs , the plates in dull red and dark blue and gold glaze that hung on the wall there and might , from the hieroglyphs on their backs , possibly be Chinese and perhaps valuable .
9 And then as they hatched you see , you used to take them in into the incubator then .
10 And then as they passed the Odeon cinema the man lunged at him with his walking stick beating him over the head and arms .
11 I put the branch two-handed over my right shoulder as I run up to them , jump over a small bush and then as I land at their side bring the branch swinging down .
12 I turned round , half-expecting to hear a giggle , a rather inane giggle ; and then as I looked at the thick shadowy scrub near the gate , and remembered the grim reference to Prospero , a more sinister explanation came to me .
13 And then as I say they can write off for a pack and they get examples which cost them .
14 And then as I say , it was defend , defend , defend for the last quarter of an hour .
15 Similarly , the course of improvement from infectious illnesses accompanied by fever has been commonly held to be intimately connected with sleeping , so that a fever typically " breaks " during the night , while the temperature reaches a maximal high , and then as it reverts to near-normal the patient falls into a deep restorative sleep .
16 He sat on the cutting machine and and then as it come on to the Ah but what do you call the long thing ?
17 No shaved from there back and then as it is at the moment in the front .
18 Oz edged carefully down the slope , crouching every now and then as he reached a little bilberry bush .
19 Lamond was talking to some people and then as he was leaving he came by me and said , ‘ But , you know , it was n't all as beautiful as you might imagine ! ’
20 The scene was set for a movie genius but what was important for the history of the movies was that the genius who emerged to push the medium and the industry into a new era was a self-educated romantic whose values and ideas had not been provided by any distinctive intellectual tradition or urban political party but rather had emerged first out of his Southern , rural , Methodist past and then as he had drifted through a rapidly changing America .
21 He 'd do the parties now and then as he used to .
22 And then as he turned and walked away he took the blackjack , which had come out of his pocket in the same handful , and tossed it into the first unblocked drain that he saw .
23 Strange 's outburst was directed at a cameraman who clicked as he addressed the ball , and then as he reached the top of the backswing .
24 It had always been a moment of pure magic to him in the theatre , the consciousness of the huge rustling animal behind him , and the hush as the house lights went down , the pause of utter stillness , silence , and then as he brought his baton down , the incredible surge of excitement as music smashed the silence , created instantly the illusion of that otherworld that did n't really exist .
25 Yeah he got trapped in a car park and he could n't get out for ages and ages and then as he got out he crashed into another car .
26 Try saying big glass as you would say big game and then as you would say big deal .
27 Finally , on an in-breath , let the hands come in and then as you breathe out , let the arms float down to your sides .
28 And then as you know , no statement our , our Christian truth can never be encapsulated in any one statement .
29 I mean today , you 've got to be an educated man to know how to even , they 've got er tractors and everything , but in those days you 'd got to set your plough furrow out so as you you could run your plough down your first one , and then as you as you ploughed your first furrow out you 'd got to plough your next one into it .
30 and you know with violence and that and then as you work your way along there 'd be the sort of situation where there is n't any physical violence but there 's intimidation and fear
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