Example sentences of "[was/were] then [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 After flying on land , the group were then whisked off in an airborne plane to Robert Carrier 's restaurant in Suffolk for a sumptuous lunch .
2 Patients were then crossed over to the opposite treatment .
3 They were then sent off towards the enemy , running panic-stricken this way and that , and in the process spreading the poisonous fumes .
4 Talybont were then sent back for 109 , Wheeler hitting 33 not out and Simon Lloyd Williams 31 .
5 They were then cast out of the Garden — ’
6 These values were then converted back to the pH scale .
7 Whatever the mitigating circumstances — the heat , effects of jetlag and an injury to Mark Appleson — Scotland did not make a very good fist of it on Saturday when they lost their pool match to Western Samoa and were then tumbled out of the plate 38-5 by New Zealand .
8 Letters were then drawn up to be enrolled at the Court of Chancery so we would have the necessary licence to trade .
9 The completed report cards were then passed on to the SCC for discussion , after which the details would be forwarded to either the association of SCCs ( covering a wider area than a single school ) , the ASEA , or to some other agency , such as the Girls ' Friendly Society , the Metropolitan Society for Befriending Young Servants or the Recreational Evening Schools Association .
10 The suspects were then brought up by number , a single man at a time ( and as I heard them begin with ‘ one ’ , the skin of my neck tightened in anticipation of gunfire which never came ) .
11 He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation .
12 The levels were then topped up to around 20 metres and final tests were carried out before being handed back to operations .
13 Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in .
14 These features were then mixed up with features from the local cottages of Surrey and Sussex — the tiled roof , the tile-hung wall and the gable .
15 They were then smuggled out of the building in a police decoy operation , being driven away in unmarked cars with blankets over their heads .
16 The imprints were then smuggled out of London 's Belmarsh Prison , which holds some IRA suspects .
17 A crooked locksmith is believed to have made copies of the keys which were then smuggled back into the ‘ escape-proof ’ jail .
18 Two of the Actuarial typists were then smuggled in to the delight of the all male audience and sang ‘ Three Little Girls ’ along with ‘ Nobby ’ Knox , who was distinguishable only by the fact that he was the one not wearing a mini-skirt .
19 Tests of significance for intervention effects were then carried out by taking the ratio ( χ 2 /df for the intervention effect ) / ( χ 2 /df for the interaction between school and interventions ) to yield an approximate F statistic .
20 The four were then taken back to Douglas .
21 The goods were then taken back to Mansha 's home where his girlfriend heard the men and saw Randhawa throwing the stolen jewellery around the kitchen .
22 It appeared that the TPLF initially made gains in Gondar , Wollo and Shoa provinces , but were then driven back by government troops , aided by some local inhabitants .
23 We were then oriented out of the door .
24 The metric system was then built up on the decimal system , which you already have been studying .
25 Briefly , a known excess of H + ions ( 250 µl of 0.1 M H 2 SO 4 =50 µEq H + ) was added to 2 ml of sample and 5 ml of deionised H 2 O. This was gassed with CO 2 free nitrogen ( washed through saturated barium hydroxide solution ) for five minutes to remove dissolved CO 2 from the sample , which was then titrated up to the reaction endpoint at pH 8.4 ( pH meter PHM 82 linked to an autoburette ABU 80 and controlled by an autotitrator TTT 80 all units Radiometer , Copenhagen ) with 15 mM NaOH .
26 One school of thought has it that William received his regular thrashing for untidy work and was then locked up in a tiny room to rewrite it .
27 The problem was then pointed out to us and we had to employ a plumber to put matters right .
28 However it was then pointed out by a biologist that tiny movements by the plant could explain these variations .
29 I arrived at work on the Monday and was handed a cheque and my personal belongings at the desk in the foyer and was then escorted out by Security .
30 The design was then filled out with the smaller red roses , ‘ Yesterday ’ and ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ , and finally to complete any gaps I used some pink ‘ Ballerina ’ and creamy pink ‘ Penelope ’ roses .
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