Example sentences of "[conj] then [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 2 | From 1538 , Mary , widow of Francis of Orleans , duke of Longueville , and then aged twenty-three , spent her life first as the wife of James V , when she fulfilled her function as queen by producing two sons , only to see both of them die , and then as queen dowager fighting to maintain her daughter 's interests . |
| 3 | Having been taught , first at an expensive public school and then at Oxford University , to express herself to order , she found the poor creatures who shambled along to 23 Dorman Road every Saturday , Thursday , Monday and Wednesday absolutely no competition at all . |
| 4 | She studied at the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women , and then at University College , Aberystwyth , and at the extramural School of Medicine for Women , Edinburgh . |
| 5 | He was educated privately in England and France , and then at Edinburgh University which he left in 1833 . |
| 6 | He was held in the Tower of London and then at Chepstow Castle and was released in 1665 without having been tried , on the understanding that he sailed for Carolina , which gave rise to the belief that he had turned informer . |
| 7 | Sleeping all day and then at night time |
| 8 | And then at night egg and chips , cos she knows Tony likes chips or chops and ooh . |
| 9 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge , more simply S.T.C. , was born in 1772 , the tenth child of a Devonshire clergyman ; he was educated at Christ 's Hospital in London and then at Jesus College , Cambridge . |
| 10 | He was educated privately , by the local Presbyterian minister , and then at Jesus College , Oxford , taking his BA in 1686 and his MA , at New Inn Hall , in 1699 . |
| 11 | Winnicott was educated at The Leys School , Cambridge , and then at Jesus College , Cambridge , where he gained a third class in part i of the natural sciences tripos in 1917 , as a preliminary to qualifying in medicine . |
| 12 | In retirement he lived first at Herringfleet Hall in Suffolk , where he was a justice of the peace , and then at Dedham House in Essex . |
| 13 | and then at retirement age I would continue to receive half pay plus retirement pen State Retirement Pension |
| 14 | And then at tea time they had what their dinner was at tea time you see and it was always fish and . |
| 15 | He was no great observer , but a most original mathematician , making great advances in algebra ( notably with the idea that xy need not equal yx ) , which had connections with optical theory , and then with vector analysis . |
| 16 | Winner of the great race in 1978 with Lucius and then with Hallo Dandy in 1984 , Richards knows what it takes to win round Liverpool and do n't forget he was successful with The Antartex over the Aintree fences last year . |
| 17 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 18 | And then on Monday morning things moved around in his head and he started drinking quite a lot , a ] so for Sam 's sake , to toast the victory of seeing him once more and to say a damn to caution . |
| 19 | Wickham asked at the bar for two pints and then for Doris Clay . |
| 20 | On her father 's death in 1898 , Margaret moved with her mother to lodgings in Cambridge , and then to Broadwinter Farm , Dorset . |
| 21 | I spent a few years on The Scotsman and then to Thomson House to join The Guardian soon after it dropped the ‘ Manchester ’ from its title and started printing in London . |
| 22 | He went to Wairarapa High School in Masterton , and then to Otago University , where he obtained a BA in 1935 and MA ( second class ) in 1936 . |
| 23 | He spent the first three terms as a non-collegiate student ( a ‘ tosher ’ ) , preparing himself for Responsions by means of three hours ' daily tuition directed towards entrance scholarships to Balliol in November and Merton in January ( which he failed to win ) , and then to Lincoln College , which he won easily in March 1898 because of the mature quality of his style and approach in the general essay paper . |
| 24 | They will pump waste water to an existing sewer at Crosby Road South and then to North West Water 's multimillion pound treatment works at Sandon Dock . |
| 25 | He went to the Revd W. Woods 's private day-school and then to Trinity College , Dublin , where he was a distinguished athlete . |
| 26 | He went to the College of Physical Science ( later Armstrong College ) , Newcastle upon Tyne ( 1874–7 ) , and then to Emmanuel College , Cambridge ( 1877–81 ) , where he became a scholar in 1879 . |
| 27 | Mahdi , 56 , had been imprisoned and then under house arrest since his civilian government was overthrown in June 1989 . |
| 28 | I 'd walked up St Giles ’ about two o'clock , and then down Keble Road to the Parks . |
| 29 | with other states , and then across state activity , I know where I got , the girl right at the back was n't it ? |
| 30 | WE have received many messages from graduates who have been saddened to hear of the death of H. H. Lucas , former Warden of Wortley and then of Cripps Hall . |