Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard you were pregnant and then told us that she was . |
| 2 | Police believe the women were raped before their bodies were mutilated and then thrown into the sea.Mike Dolan reports |
| 3 | I know you said you were extra and then going to freezer shop or summat . |
| 4 | In carefully structured interviews on the concept of God with three and four-year old children she found that if she began by asking them to distinguish between objects which were man-made and ones which were natural and then to speculate about origins in each case , a majority of the responses referred to the natural objects being made by God or an unknown power ( almost half and half responses on this ) . |
| 5 | In order that these children did n't get suspicious of his works , they were brain-washed and then placed with families on campus . |
| 6 | He knew how to break one rock with another rock so they were sharp and then used them to make a point on a stick . |
| 7 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He waited until the Ilyushin was clear and then started a slow turn to his right , using the power on the left engine in conjunction with the rudder . |
| 10 | The Bishop waited until it was dark and then ferried across the river to Wouldham and made his way to Boxley Abbey for safety . |
| 11 | She was disconcerted and then enthralled by Lenny Bruce 's spitfire monologues , his explosive mix of four-letter words and Yiddishisms which hit at the gut of hypocrisies . |
| 12 | He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds . |
| 13 | Senga waited until she was sure her mother was awake and then asked softly , " When 's Patrick coming back ? " |
| 14 | Young Archie was educated at the local National school until he was 14 and then apprenticed to Stephens & Sons , pioneers of the Stephens motor-car . |
| 15 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |