Example sentences of "[coord] then [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I saw erm a photo when I was eighteen and I it was sort of short in the neck over my ears short in there and then sort of fuller there and then just a bit of you know a light fringe not a heavy fringe and I thought I might have it like that so |
| 2 | Averaging of this kind was first done at the National Hospital in London in the 1940s by George Dawson , initially using a technique of photographic superimposition and then later a system of addition using banks of condensers , but it was the electronic processing and computing power of the 1960s and 1970s which made the accurate timing of these averaged potentials possible , resulting in a rapid expansion in ERP research . |
| 3 | Doone pursed his lips judiciously , then nodded and wrote a cross against Perkin , and then again a question mark . |
| 4 | From , from Yugoslavia , and we , we heard provisionally he was released about August did n't we , and then eventually a couple of months ago that he had definitely released , erm , and , were , were very pleased about that cos was he released before the end of his term , he must have been ? |
| 5 | It was as if there was a wave of water and the wave turned a wheel and the wheel turned a cog and the cog turned a piston and the piston punched out a wave , bigger and more overwhelming than the first wave , turning a bigger wheel , a bigger cog , a bigger piston and then finally a wave that seemed enough to swallow everything in its path . |
| 6 | No food since morning and then only a taste of beer and some burnt gruel . |
| 7 | I fancy I slagged it off and then about a year later I loved the whole album . |
| 8 | Now okay you know the , you know the one person you ca n't do anything for but it 's the way this lass looked you know and then about a week after that I 'm in Princes Street and I always try and er you know buy the , the Issues |
| 9 | It takes several months for the dust veil to spread in this way , and then perhaps a year or two for the material to fall out of the stratosphere and for normal warming of the Earth 's surface by the Sun to be restored . |
| 10 | In the West , she would no doubt have gone on to pass ‘ A ’ levels or the baccalaureate with enough marks to ensure a place at university and then perhaps a career in law or medicine , banking or politics . |
| 11 | They were taken first to the Royal East Sussex Hospital and then further a field . |
| 12 | You 'll have to report to the clinic regularly , of course — every week for a while and then once a month . |
| 13 | When the Alexander teacher thinks you have grasped the fundamental principles of inhibition and direction , he will ask you to come once a fortnight and then once a month . |
| 14 | Very often your teacher may ask you to come twice a week for two or three weeks and then once a week for a further period which will vary from pupil to pupil . |
| 15 | You know but just perhaps , perhaps occasional help and then maybe a bit later on get more involved . |
| 16 | But then again a lot of people would n't dream of doing anything , they go and buy some but er there are |