Example sentences of "[adj] and then [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That one small doubt became a huge question mark two days later when , before the opening home game with Arsenal , Knighton took the field in a United playing strip ( having refused the previous day to be photographed holding a United shirt ) and juggled , headed and kicked a football in front of a at first incredulous and then delighted Stretford End . |
| 2 | Oliver poured orange juice , drank half of it in the kitchen while looking very thoughtful and then carried Rain 's to the bedroom . |
| 3 | The following morning I worked as usual and then asked Kathleen if I could have a couple of days off . |
| 4 | In an adjournment debate in the Commons earlier this month , Mr Hood claimed that Mr Muncie 's ‘ luck ran out ’ for his favourite method of investigation — deciding who was guilty and then gathering evidence to prove it . |
| 5 | FABULOUS 208 : Started life as Fabulous and then became house mag of Radio Luxembourg . |
| 6 | That is why activating and then overturning schemata is a device often used in jokes , puzzles , and literature . |
| 7 | Follow this , keeping edge of wood on left and take next left fork which runs up on to a shoulder where another path joins from left and then ascends shoulder steeply ( f ) . |
| 8 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 9 | Problems were encountered when personnel officials — generally lacking in senior and especially Board status — were being asked to advertise for , interview , help select and then appoint executives to positions considerably higher than those they held themselves . |
| 10 | After sunset , your song wore a tune of ascetic grey and then came night . |
| 11 | Before being dumped she had been beaten , stripped and then had petrol poured over her body and was set on fire . |
| 12 | ‘ Everyone horribly drunk and then catching taxis in the early hours , it was a blur , a glorious , happy blur . ’ |
| 13 | In the past , Government has interfered in industry , with disastrous results , by attempting to alter economic trends ; increasing and then curtailing expansion , increasing interest rates , taxation , credit , consumer demand and the like . |
| 14 | The new NME was typified by James Brown , a youthful and obstreperous Yorkshire dynamo whose tenure as live and then features ed , was both fiery and fierily productive . |
| 15 | With West Ham committed to attack , Shearer was left unmarked to head just wide and then tested Miklosko with a fierce shot to the near post . |