Example sentences of "[coord] then to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He pointed to the picture of the woman above Oliver 's head and then to the boy 's face .
2 The pictures that curators tried for decades to coax or pry off the Barnes 's walls will also travel to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and then to the Museum of Western Art in Tokyo .
3 The rope was once again attached to a tree and then to the saddle of Felipe 's horse , and Maggie lay back on the cliff-top to watch as he made another dangerous trip over the edge .
4 Nutty could see that the three boys were so keen to get started she suggested they repaired there and then to the back of the bicycle sheds and had a go to see what it was like .
5 She watched him fight his way across the room to hang up the coats and then to the bar .
6 The man jumped to his feet , he ran to the trees and then to the edge of the clearing as if uncertain .
7 In front of him the two men had separated , reacted to the shout , and then to the sight of the gun .
8 Hayden Phillips , smooth , urbane , the kind of establishment figure that the Thatcherites liked to take on , he has had a brilliant career which started in the Home Office , took him to Brussels as chef de cabinet to Roy Jenkins and then to the Treasury as Deputy Secretary .
9 And then to the cinema .
10 He pointed to the sky and then to the clearing , to the path that led to the cabin where Sycorax lay , and Kit understood that he had been granted permission to remain three cycles of the moon .
11 Tug slumped into a chair and looked first to one side and then to the other .
12 She was followed by Rabbi Moishe , his sallow face with its rippling white beard inclining first to one side and then to the other as everyone did him honour by rising until he had passed , and just behind him came another black-garbed figure , a bespectacled priest , greying head covered by a yarmulkah .
13 The actual bye-law itself is very much in its infancy , the situation is that , if , if the Council agree , if members of Council agree to make the bye-law , then it would have to be referred to the Home Office and then to the Secretary of State .
14 In due course this small department , and AIB with it , was gobbled up by the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation , after which AIB passed first to the Ministry of Aviation and then to the Board of Trade .
15 Susan switched on the bedside lamp , a pink glow under its frilled shade , and reaching for her dressing-gown , shuffled sleepily to the bathroom next door , and then to the nursery .
16 Its origins go back to the rediscovery of perspective in the Renaissance , and then to the architect 's drawings of the eighteenth century .
17 He went first to an Italian private school and then to the finish English school in Rome .
18 We follow his transition from international sprinter to club coach and then to the mastermind of an élite group of world-class sprinters — Angella Taylor-Issajenko , Tony Sharpe , Mark McCoy and Desai Williams were all medal-winners with Ben Johnson in the Commonwealth Games of 1982 .
19 Down there in the depths , and she was very aware of how deep it was , a sign pointing ahead and then to the left said : Trains .
20 And then to the left .
21 And then to the left .
22 Cooke was educated at the village dame school until he was ten , and then to the age of thirteen by his uncle , James Cubitt , a Baptist minister in Ilford , who shortly afterwards moved to Stratford upon Avon .
23 And here was the man himself , scarred face , heavy limp , and impressive bearing , demanding to see Sally-Anne , but he gave away nothing of this , merely said , ‘ What is it , Baines ? ’ and then to the intruder , ‘ And who the devil are you , sir ?
24 In a day that saw 100 minutes of playing time lost , first to crowd trouble and then to the weather , Wasim Akram finished with five for 101 after the tourists had gone from 181 for three overnight to 324 all out .
25 That so much has survived , despite Lanfranc 's hostility , is due first to the tenacity of the surviving monks , and then to the encouragement given to them by Anselm .
26 A curved arrow tells you to knit first to the left to place a loop in the empty needles and then to the right to knit all the stitches .
27 She and Daak looked to the left , and then to the right , along the plateau .
28 The exercises followed a pattern , a dimly remembered copy of the Kurgan haiku — a two-handed reach skyward to the left , and then to the right , a reverse , two-handed , and then the single-handed moves .
29 He staggered back , half tripped on the cockpit coaming , scrambled up to the deck and then to the ship 's rail .
30 Later , she was transferred to another hospital in Middlesbrough and then to the Frenchay hospital in Bristol to be nearer her home in Chepstow , Gwent .
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