Example sentences of "[coord] then as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er it erm er the result was that you was really working flat out all the summer , and then as the winter advanced , you got very short of work , and they put us on the dole , for half a week . |
| 2 | She hesitated a second and then as the headlights dimmed she went across to the window and peered through the Venetian blind . |
| 3 | And then as the day goes on , I 've got to go and tear this off , cos it gets , these bits get red , |
| 4 | Jack heard him whistling , ‘ Mabel dear , listen here ’ under the stars and then as the shadow was absorbed and lost in the many tree shadows , the whistle too faded and there was no sound but the gentle chatter of the stream , the Kingsbrook that flowed everlastingly over its bed of thin round stones . |
| 5 | As he headed back across the sound she began to toil up the cliff path , pausing for breath now and then as the wind battered her and tore at her hair , which soon broke free of its restraining scarf and whipped into her eyes , slowing her progress up the wet , slippery path towards the house . |
| 6 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 7 | Her jaw is removed , and then as the disease spreads she loses an eye . |
| 8 | I would have thought they 've simply , it had to be agreed that that was stopped and then as the professor has said , I mean we give all the aid we can to turn their erm military er industry into erm , what was it , instead of guns . |
| 9 | Forester waited until the postman had come freewheeling down the track , and then as the momentum was spent and the postman pedalled off into the morning Forester started to move downslope towards the cottages . |
| 10 | But then as the lady said on leaving office : ‘ It 's a funny old world . ’ |
| 11 | Not one of the 120 is listed as a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) — but then as the Conservatives have pointed out , the published biographies contain no mention whatever of CND membership . |
| 12 | But then as the car sped out of the rubber groves and down a steep hill towards another village Joseph stiffened in his seat again . |