Example sentences of "[conj] then the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The waiting patients pricked their ears and tried not to smile and then the surgery door would burst open and eject … a little old lady , pink with pleasure ! |
| 2 | I became there and then the cricket fanatic I have remained ever since , ’ he recalled in Maurice Tate ( 1976 ) . |
| 3 | and then the phone number then all you 've got to do is press send and it 'll ring it . |
| 4 | Then you have the prosecution barrister and there as you know there has been some quite disgraceful behaviour by prosecution barristers , and then the defence council as well . |
| 5 | Fine town houses of the eighteenth century , some of them now embassies , give way slowly to the more compact residences of the nineteenth , then to the woods and then the seaside suburb of Scheveningen . |
| 6 | What do you say to the fathers , and I have had dozens from up and down the country contacting me , what do you say to the fathers like that chap over there in th in the front row , who has handed over sometimes tens of thousands of pounds , he 's done his bit , he 's had it rubber stamped by the court , he 's gone ahead in good faith and made his his his future , and then the Child Support Agency comes along and just without so much as a by your leave pulls the rug . |
| 7 | Bishop Harris , was ordained to the priesthood in 1942 , spending many years in parochial work and then the testing apostolate of the prison service . |
| 8 | The cell walls in the ‘ stings ’ on the stems contain silica , a glass-like substance ; they puncture the skin , and then the irritant poison is released . |
| 9 | The code number is read into the computer , and then the text string for that number is read from the computer 's data base . |
| 10 | This panics the fish , which immediately bolts , comes up against the heavy bomb which pulls the hook in some more , and then the back stop hits the bomb and penetration of the hook is complete . |
| 11 | At the side , so , but she 's not having a garage or anything at the side , she 's having a side extension down below , but the front bit she 's having made into a shower room and then the back bit it 's gon na be like a morning room to the kitchen |
| 12 | Behind the golden curtain was a four-foot gap , and then the back wall of the basement . |
| 13 | And then the alarm call , the minicab , the cold airfield . |
| 14 | We are treated to a ‘ talk ’ from Judd Lander , large-screen videos of ‘ Sheriff Fatman ’ and ‘ GI Blues ’ from In Bed With Carter , and then the promo clip for ‘ New Cross ’ . |
| 15 | The idea was a pleasant trip through beautiful countryside , talking the while about railways and in particular this line , then an hour in the pub or a walk round Llandrindod , and then the return trip . |
| 16 | And then the Date Line is passed , and we are into a segment of the Pacific best known for its unrivalled prosperity and good fortune : here is the United States , sharing with Japan the suzerain 's role ; and , sandwiched between its two continental divisions , the Dominion of Canada . |
| 17 | The side strips and then the starter strip are nailed into place |
| 18 | ‘ I needed a pain-killing injection in my right elbow and then the abductor muscle in my groin went . |
| 19 | Every now and then the fossil record throws up fossils which are palaeontological puzzles . |
| 20 | The cable cores of the flex are stripped and laid in the correct channels of the plug ; the plug pins are twisted to secure the wires ; and then the fuse cover is closed . |
| 21 | And then the road roller . |
| 22 | I glimpsed a cloth of state under which two figures sat on thrones and then the devil Vauban appeared . |
| 23 | And then the North end . |
| 24 | the numbers underneath each other and the Xs underneath each other , plus X , and then the plus sign |
| 25 | And then the cost benefit , evidence of need , I I drew out a f a paper . |
| 26 | So there you are and then the driver board goes on here |
| 27 | It was a beautiful place with an orchard and then the tennis court , but I 'm not their sort really . |
| 28 | the broken metal and then the steam roller was back and fore on it and It was quite a good surface you know , but |
| 29 | It would be wonderful to let go and throw the teapot across the room , and then the milk jug and then the sugar — lump by lump — at the family Hulsby and at Mitzi . |
| 30 | Michael Lee checked the address on the scrap of paper and then the name plate pinned high to the wall of the tenement . |