Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] then " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication . |
| 2 | In one of the experiments , a group of students were blindfolded and then taken on a coachride . |
| 3 | We were blindfolded and then had to move back until we bent our knees . |
| 4 | He looked round , first towards the trees where his bodyguards were grouped and then , tilting his head back , listened carefully . |
| 5 | The sound of his parents ' calls were muffled and then grew distant and all he could hear was the rough footfall of the man on the rocks and scree and the sound of his breathing … |
| 6 | NICOSIA ( Reuter ) — Three men were beheaded and then crucified in public in the Saudi capital , Riyadh . |
| 7 | They hope the experiment will help them find out why a mother and baby were cremated and then buried in the centre of a large earth mound |
| 8 | They hope the experiment will help them find out why a mother and baby were cremated and then buried in the centre of a large earth mound |
| 9 | They also found that weed growth could be substantially decreased if radishes were grown and then cultivated into the soil . |
| 10 | Dismembered bits of poor Montrose were collected and then buried with honour in St Giles , the High Kirk of Edinburgh . |
| 11 | However , this was not to be since their drains were either late , abandoned , or non-existent , while promises of building sites were made and then had to be broken because of the absence of drains ! |
| 12 | In Brazil there were good intentions , good laws were made and then not observed , a school for natives built but no provision for teachers . |
| 13 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 14 | Popular forms were expropriated and then given back suitably packaged . |
| 15 | But , he added , sometimes commissions were needed and then it was valuable to have a scholar-bishop as the chairman . |
| 16 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 17 | Seven houses which were bought and then left derelict for years by Robert Maxwell , have been opened up again to potential buyers . |
| 18 | No we had a reasonably good dinner and , and we did n't want no tea when we come home , this could have been some of it cos all I had then when we did about seven o'clock when we decided we 'd have a bowl of soup , erm , we stuffed ourselves , we had toast and breakfast erm , we had one or two sweets in the hospital , er while we were waiting and then er , we went to Asda and then we got er |
| 19 | Yeah , I du n no why , I sort of oh yes well , I assumed we were going and then he said it was too expensive . |
| 20 | The years went by in a bundle of exercise books , seasons succeeding one another as flycatchers came and went , orchids were noted and then vanished , temperatures varied from the normal . |
| 21 | Patients were disimpacted and then treated with dietary fibre and daily milk of magnesia , and the laxative was slowly discontinued once normal bowel movements had been accomplished . |
| 22 | She saw the bar , with its gleaming mahogany counter and polished brass fittings ; the enamel levers of the soda pumps , the array of ratafias and rosolio liqueurs behind the bar , and the new wooden chest , like a coffer with brass hasps in which the aluminium pails of pastel ices were kept in ice brought by dripping cart from the icehouse in the harbour at Dolmetta , where the fish were packed and then chipped off the block . |
| 23 | After pressing , the pockets were tied and then stored in the ground-floor storage area , which was only required as a space in which the pockets were hung and for stoking the fires in the kilns . |
| 24 | After 18 hours ' organ culture in medium with or without the addition of 1,25 ( OH ) 2 D 3 ( 100 pM ) , paired mucosal explants were mounted and then 3 µm cryostat sections were cut and air dried before blocking in H 2 O 2 ( 0.22% ) and methanol for 5 minutes . |
| 25 | Their stories were taped and then transcribed verbatim . |
| 26 | All sections were coded and then analysed for the relationship between nitroblue tetrazolium deposits and the degree of inflammation . |
| 27 | You were saying and then you finished in mid-sentence . |
| 28 | So all the other routes were motorized and then those when we got a , a big batch of motor buses come in . |
| 29 | ( During the third century they were celebrating Easter and Pentecost , which were inherited and then modified from Judaism and so dependent on a lunar year . |
| 30 | Under General Romero , ANDES headquarters were raided and then closed down in 1978 , and prominent leaders detained . |