Example sentences of "[to-vb] and then [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It often happens , especially if you train only spasmodically , that you start off the season with a personal best time , get really excited because you think there is a lot more to come and then the rest of the summer turns out to be something of a damp squib . |
| 2 | Two days passed before the man was strong enough to talk and then the Captain asked him to tell his story . |
| 3 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 4 | The waiting patients pricked their ears and tried not to smile and then the surgery door would burst open and eject … a little old lady , pink with pleasure ! |
| 5 | The kid laughed loud enough for me to hear and then the chain snicked off . |
| 6 | The solid is allowed to settle and then the solvent is run off until its level is just above the level of the solid . |
| 7 | He said within minutes Hawkins and Talbot started to argue and then a fight broke out . |
| 8 | The royals have been virtually the only gossip among their delegations following first the news that Anne and Tim were to marry and then the bombshell that Diana and Charles were to separate . |