Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] then " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The girls would take their dresses off to tiptoe through that awful mire and then , coming back put them on again . |
| 2 | The night of the Spring Ball arrives , Carrie looks beautiful , she 's being escorted by the nicest possible person and then they get elected as King and Queen of the Spring Ball ! |
| 3 | Patrick uttered a low whimpering sound and then , quite audibly , ‘ Marcus . ’ |
| 4 | He calculates the mass , orbit , etc. of this hypothetical planet and then asks an experimental astronomer to test his hypothesis . |
| 5 | big like gun in like a staple thing it was , but it was a la , it was an extended one , fitted inside this rubber hose and then , clamp it and they only have a little bit of stomach left so they ca n't eat proper meals |
| 6 | That 's right , I think what means something is this overall figure and then erm a kind of er an information giving part which points out that what , you know , what seventy five per cent of my twelve thousand had over sixty five |
| 7 | The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people . |
| 8 | He gave another little laugh and then lowered his eyes . |
| 9 | This is accomplished by first differentiating the freewheeling current signal and then using a comparator to find the time instants at which there is 110 change of current . |
| 10 | There was another long pause and then he said unsteadily , " All right . " |
| 11 | Moses was brought up in a high-ranking Egyptian family and then , later in life , led a lowly people , the Jews . |
| 12 | One was a 70-year-old Watcher who threatened to do us grievous bodily harm and then hand herself in thus doubling at a stroke the NW clear up rate . |
| 13 | Mrs er has er actually said that we should be getting some more money and then she spoilt it by saying we should be using the money we have n't got more er better use it and er maybe knocking the traffic li er islands out will save us a problem cos we 'll get a few kids knocked down and we wo n't have to bother with em . |
| 14 | Have some more breakfast and then I 'll read you a story and then we 'll go and get dressed . |
| 15 | No patients would be identified and the information would be confidentially passed to the British Medical Association and then on to the Home Office . |
| 16 | Most remarkable of all , if you take two sponges and treat them both in this extreme way and then mix cells from the two , they will reconstitute themselves into a single mixed-parentage entity . |
| 17 | And these storm doors are closed when the gale is threatening heavy seas on and there 's another door inside that about eight feet inside that another heavy door and then there 's another ordinary door inside that . |
| 18 | " But surely , " Lavinia said , beginning some small protest and then not continuing with it . |
| 19 | I s I , I never really played with Windows , I just installed it to do the job of running this one application and then left it alone . |
| 20 | " I ate some hot curry and then got lost in the fog and fell down … |
| 21 | Eoghan continued to play some amateur golf and then turned professional last summer . |
| 22 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 23 | With modern designs , the correct method is to make the descent with some forward speed and then use this speed to flare like an aircraft , still holding a negative pitch setting ( Fig. 8.3 ) . |
| 24 | The effect of this preliminary training on generalization between A and B was examined by establishing A as a CS for some new response and then testing the ability of B to evoke this response . |
| 25 | There was pause , then some static crackle and then : |
| 26 | If you let them lead you where they want to go , they lead back to this latent content and then you begin to recognize er the latent thoughts . |
| 27 | The cartoon , and I , I was only I can remember , my dream was really vivid , I was standing up in my cot , and all of a sudden my bedroom windows flew open , curtains blew and in the window this bright light and then this wolf coming to get me , and it was the most scary dream I 've ever had . |
| 28 | I 'll finish this last sweatshirt and then I 'll |
| 29 | Another time , Swan flew through the night for what seemed like hours and hours until they came at last to a gigantic opening in the earth 's surface , a sort of huge gaping hole in the ground , and Swan glided slowly round and round above this massive crater and then right down into it . |
| 30 | For instance , a businessman could habitually send customers a typed standard contract and then negotiate on that , or , having had his lawyers draw up a special contract on one occasion , he could start to use this on subsequent occasions as if it were a precedent . |