Example sentences of "[coord] then [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of being molested once as a child and then a man jumping in her car at 21 yrs and her running away remained with her so that she has persistent fear of being attacked and the sense of someone being behind her . |
| 2 | But my instructions for the lads have always been that if you go to a job for a lady particularly and then a man comes along and starts to get stroppy , you 'll have to explain to the lady you may have to leave it temporarily and go back . |
| 3 | And then a lady called back five minutes later just explain |
| 4 | A big erm pitcher full of tea and then a basket tied on my back with the sandwiches and and the cake of scone my mother used to back more often . |
| 5 | Now and then a door slammed , sending metallic echoes rolling along the corridors . |
| 6 | There were SS guards here and there , but no great evidence of people , and then a door opened , a young corporal emerged and behind him Devlin saw a room crammed with radio equipment and a number of operatives . |
| 7 | But there was a snap loud enough to be heard in the bushes , and then a long-drawn-out clinking noise as the chain fell away . |
| 8 | He said within minutes Hawkins and Talbot started to argue and then a fight broke out . |
| 9 | And then a log broke in the hearth , sending sparks cascading , and the shadows leapt , and Grainne remembered all of the old stories , and could almost have believed that the ancient Ireland had awoken at last ; that goblins and satyrs and cloven-hoofed , pointed-eared creatures were prancing in the room with them . |
| 10 | I do not know why I can not speak … and then a voice called her name . |
| 11 | She stopped and listened , and heard first laughter and then a voice shouting , ‘ For God 's sake . ’ |
| 12 | The pelvic floor needs to be free for the voice to be free and then a voice has both highs and lows . |
| 13 | He moved closer — and then a clock struck , somewhere in the distance , and he looked impatiently down at his watch . |
| 14 | Someone was pulling at her clothes , a hand shook her shoulder , and then a thumb rolled back her eyelid . |
| 15 | Do a range protect on that same range and then a range erase of that same range . |
| 16 | One … two … three pulls , and then a wave lifted the boat and the oars were pulling at air . |
| 17 | Prince Charles argued that they should be brought up initially by Mabel Anderson , his childhood nanny , and then a governess employed to educate the boys for the first few years in the privacy of Kensington Palace . |
| 18 | After they had been photographed , after the scene of crime team had swarmed in and over them , after the police surgeon and then a pathologist had done all that had to be done in that room , the bodies still stayed where they were . |
| 19 | She rested after lunch and then a taxi took her up to Hampstead and a shop that sold a certain kind of ethnic clothes not available elsewhere . |
| 20 | And then a taxi stopped at her frantic signalling , and she was collapsing on to the slippery leather seat with a surge of relief that banished all other thoughts from her mind . |
| 21 | Mandy studied her critically , and then a smile tugged across her leprechaun features . |
| 22 | He watched the emotions play over her young face ; the stir of anger , the hint of disappointment and then a smile settled , hesitant , ravishing in its innocence . |
| 23 | Mandy hesitated and then a smile softened her face . |
| 24 | There were some cheers , shouts of ‘ Olé ! ’ and then a chant began — ‘ Mi-guel-ito , Mi-guel-ito , Mi-guel-ito . ’ |
| 25 | The plates flickered past , solemn and beautiful faces , sleeping soldiers , angels carrying flutes , and then a page fell open more easily because , slipped into it , she found a sheet of the villa 's notepaper on which was typed what she at first thought to be a shopping-list , but , as she began to read , discovered it was no such thing . |
| 26 | Ruth heard music in the distance and then a boat came into view , moving eerily across the limpid waters . |
| 27 | A light flared briefly at the side of the furthest cart , and then a torch flew through the air over the target . |
| 28 | To escape from such a condition it must first be recognized and then a strategy to move backwards a step at a time until a new route is found must be followed . |
| 29 | And then a shadow passed over me and Werewolf came out of the tree to land perfectly balanced right in front of me . |
| 30 | ‘ They did n't see anything because they were working in their little tent , ’ she went on , ‘ but they did hear someone hurrying past and then a car starting up a little way away . |