Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] then [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We went to another department and then returned to the shoe section where a different clerk was able , after 10 minutes , to find the shoes . |
| 2 | The Totteridges asserted that they had read till eleven on Friday and then gone to bed . |
| 3 | As is so often the case in Paisley 's career , the crucial step was taken by someone other than Paisley and then offered to Paisley as an opportunity the possibilities of which he could appreciate . |
| 4 | The exhibition ‘ Al-Andalus : the art of Islamic Spain ’ was first shown at the Alhambra in Granada last spring and then moved to the Met over the summer . |
| 5 | He built a fortune in the construction industry and then moved to Highfields Stables in the village of Adstone just north of Banbury and took up training . |
| 6 | The idea of ‘ half-way ’ houses , where discharged patients lived for a year or eighteen months and then moved to ordinary independent living , became fashionable in the 1960s . |
| 7 | You know Irene and I had a holiday along there , we stayed at Frinton and then moved to Clacton . |
| 8 | This is of crucial importance , because restrictions on trade between EC countries will not be permitted post-1992 ; hence with the present system of VERs , Japanese cars would be imported into one EC country without a VER and then moved to another EC country with a VER . |
| 9 | In the Eighties , when everything was disposable , the scrap-yard was a car 's final resting place — a crude graveyard where dented hulks were crushed beyond recognition and then sent to landfill sites . |
| 10 | She gave her orders for the next week 's farm work and then turned to one of the men . |
| 11 | AREPP 's programme started in Xhosa communities and then spread to other parts of South Africa . |
| 12 | He went on to campaign with Mr Tim Devlin , running in Stockton South and then moved to Hartlepool and Newcastle . |
| 13 | The RJO released Mann , 77 , in Beirut on Sept. 24 ; he was taken to Damascus and then flown to the UK . |
| 14 | It was too early for me to be a Yuckie — the tabloid newspapers ' shorthand for the young city slickers who celebrated the end of a day 's trading with too much lager and then reverted to type as the football hooligans they really were under the skin . |
| 15 | ‘ Eventually the scheme could cover much of Scotland and then spread to England , ’ said Hugh . |
| 16 | The Newbury Railway was originally laid to Brunel 's broad gauge and then relaid to standard gauge and is now being revived with a track gauge of two foot . |
| 17 | Blackberry scrambled up into the fern and then returned to the top of the bank , fidgeting nervously and half-inclined to bolt at nothing . |
| 18 | ‘ I was given a chauffeur-driven tour of Beverly Hills and then taken to the famous Sunset Marquee Hotel . ’ |
| 19 | Sheets were attached to each end of a beam of wood and then secured to the highest rafter in the roof , which at this stage was still open to the elements . |
| 20 | Mr Souness was treated for 30 minutes and then transferred to a high-dependency , progressive care unit at Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle , near Manchester . |
| 21 | Educated at Eton and then sent to Europe to improve himself , he worked for a short time in various jobs in ‘ the city ’ before becoming an ADC to the Governor of Australia . |
| 22 | The afternoon audience steadily declined , built up for an hour or so in the late afternoon and then surrendered to TV , except for another late-night blip . |
| 23 | ‘ In our experience of past privatisations , customers have dipped into their savings to fund the share purchase and then returned to us a month later to deposit the proceeds of an immediate sale . ’ |
| 24 | The path rose gently above water level and then bent to the left . |
| 25 | The lift was absolutely essential for some of the barrels were extremely large being brought from the Goods Station on horse-drawn drays and then manoeuvred to the road on specially constructed ramps which clipped to bars at the back of the carts . |
| 26 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into a computer and then converted to electronic form to allow further processing . |
| 27 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into a computer and then converted to electronic form to allow further processing . |
| 28 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into a computer and then converted to electronic form to allow further processing . |
| 29 | It showed the leader board and then switched to the seventh where Krantz was preparing for a long approach putt down the kidney-shaped green . |
| 30 | Applications are developed on a PC and then sent to the target machine . |