Example sentences of "and then [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sighed and then inhaled the sweet scented air . |
| 2 | No , I just came over fields , I went along and followed a dyke , I turned left at the cafe , and then followed the first I saw going up . |
| 3 | Stephen hesitated and then followed the other two . |
| 4 | The next day I walked through a hazy , warm day up Gordale Scar to Seaty Hill and then followed the old monastic road of Mastiles Lane to Kilnsey in Wharfedale . |
| 5 | Duncan tested the wheels and then indicated the old heave-ho motion . |
| 6 | The constant references to … to what you believe of me — ’ Maria halted fleetingly , abandoning the pointless once more , and then said the only thing he really needed to hear , simply and directly , without attempting to clothe it in sophistication . |
| 7 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 8 | 2 weeks before the big game , he broke his ankle and then suffered the same fate in a Sevens tournament last April . |
| 9 | She tried to imagine herself doing it and then heaved a small sigh . |
| 10 | We arrived back at about seven pm , had our evening meal and then got an early night because we had a long day ahead of us . |
| 11 | She did n't respond to allopathic painkillers , developed vomiting and diarrhoea and then had a good response to Arsenicum Album LM4 but having recovered from the acute was experiencing some return of anxiety symptoms . |
| 12 | We found a crew for the ship at the port , and then had a good voyage home . |
| 13 | In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with . |
| 14 | Ramprakash , for reasons best known to himself , treated a Cambridge batsman , Marcus Wight , to a stream of verbal abuse and then had a stand-up row with his own captain , John Emburey , which allegedly continued later . |
| 15 | He won the bronze medal in the 200 metres , and then had a spectacular and unexpected victory in the 400 metres to take the gold medal in a world record time of 47.6 seconds ( 10 July 1924 ) . |
| 16 | She was treated with dialysis and then had a renal transplant , jumping ahead of patients on the waiting list . |
| 17 | He had previously had three vessel coronary bypass grafts in 1977 and then had a myocardial infarction after cardiac catheterisation for unstable angina in April 1991 . |
| 18 | Thanks to this device many thousands of birds have been caught , weighed , measured and then had a lightweight metal ring clamped round one leg before being released in the hope that , when it is next caught ( or perhaps found dead ) , the number stamped on the ring will be seen and reported . |
| 19 | When I came home the sun was shining brilliantly and warmly into the front of the house so I first of all had a read about the similar groups and then had a quick and short snooze till the phone rang and I began work on the laptop in the sunshine , as the battery capacity lasts about an hour or so . |
| 20 | Time was getting short and I ran in this awful heat to the nearest Underground , waited ages for a train , and then had an interminable journey into London . |
| 21 | They rebelled against the Palladian sense of order and then led a classical revival which heralded the architecture of the beginning of the next century . |
| 22 | Jack stopped , listening again , and then ran the last few metres . |
| 23 | " Not too well , " he said shortly , and then added an odd thing : " I hope being happy is n't going to stop me writing . " |
| 24 | I was utterly depressed and silences fell in which she steadfastly looked away and then took a quick little bite of a glance . |
| 25 | Phone cards have done a lot to alleviate the problem , but British Telecommunications Plc is required by its licence to maintain coin-operated public telephones as well , and the company reckons that smashing and entering of the cash boxes costs it £19m a year — and if you think that it 's all just casual vandalism , think again — the company told the Daily Mail that there was actually a man offering courses on the best ways of clawing open the boxes quickly and easily — he charged £80 for the course , and then took the best pupil out for a test run around the local boxes . |
| 26 | He won his first race at Wincanton in brilliant style and then took the top two-mile chase of the season — the Champion Chase at the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival in 1971 — by twenty-five lengths . |
| 27 | Scholfield teamed up with Georgie 's Caper for the first time to win the Restricted ( Div 2 ) and then took the Open unchallenged on Confused Express . |
| 28 | In September 1 158 Henry travelled to Paris and then took the little girl back to Normandy with him . |
| 29 | At the sheds , Margaret Murray from Shrewsbury and Sarah Corish of Carrog near Corwen , buffed up the brass and crimson paintwork and then took an active part in the coaling and watering of the engine in the station head-shunt . |
| 30 | I imagine you came here with the intention of doing it up and then realised the enormous extent of the work needed to put it right . ’ |