Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] then [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the tournament began , first in Delray Beach in 1985 and then for a couple of years in Boca Raton , the temporary , scaffolding-supported stands have gone with them . |
| 2 | Let me just give you a little illustration that might help , you know in thinking of the erm the fusion of the divinity , the divine nature and the human nature , erm is it Clarke Kent , is that the guys name on television , you know the character , you know the guy that walks around you know he 's the boy next door type figure with glasses and all the rest of it , he 's no macho figure that and then in a transformation take place and woof goes flying through the air does n't he , what is he , he 's Batman is n't he |
| 3 | The more moderate , responsible men and women began to leave in ones and twos and then in a landslide . |
| 4 | This fall in oil production jolted the process of economic management , particularly since the leadership had become accustomed to a high level of revenues after the OPEC price increases , first during the campaign to this end in the early 1970s and then as a by-product of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 5 | With the proclamation of the principle of conservation of energy by Helmholtz in Berlin from 1847 and then in a public lecture delivered at Königsberg on 7 February 1854 , the whole range of physical sciences began to take a new shape . |
| 6 | Should your goals be made smaller and then into a longer list ? |
| 7 | For a moment the river was washed with pink and then with a beautiful grey . |
| 8 | And er it was salted and then For a few days , and then it was put in what we called brine , s more salt , and covered and it would be there for six weeks . |
| 9 | Their limbs entwined , he slowly and gently at first and then with a mounting fierceness made love to her again , his eyes gleaming with the triumph of possession as her pliant body instantly surrendered , both to his sensual touch and the low , husky murmur of his voice . |
| 10 | The first effective English settlement in the West Indies , founded in 1624 , was on the island of St. Christopher ( later called St. Kitts ) which was shared with the French , informally at first and then by a formal partition worked out a couple of years later which lasted until the British gained the whole island in 1713 . |
| 11 | On both occasions the violation of the maxim , in contrast to earlier instances we have examined , is deliberate , and asserts his wish , indirectly and politely at first and then by a bald on-record demand , to leave the speech situation altogether , a fact which strongly implicates his insecurity in it . |