Example sentences of "and then [vb past] the [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 | 2 weeks before the big game , he broke his ankle and then suffered the same fate in a Sevens tournament last April . |
| 8 | Jack stopped , listening again , and then ran the last few metres . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In September 1 158 Henry travelled to Paris and then took the little girl back to Normandy with him . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | She started , and then noticed the red glow of a cigarette-tip in the night . |
| 15 | The men ushered their wives and girlfriends to safety and then trudged the last mile to the party . |
| 16 | He drove half-way home before the windscreen-wipers packed up and then trudged the last two miles , through blinding snow , with the child tucked into his overcoat , her cold face buried in his shoulder , her small , cold hands round his neck . |
| 17 | She strangled the two girls , hid their bodies and then played the distraught mother making impassioned pleas for the return of her ‘ abducted ’ children . |
| 18 | Half way through the day we were given a bowl of watery porridge each , I was so hungry I ate mine , and then rejoined the long queue for a second helping . |
| 19 | In April 1989 , Century-Hutchinson acquired Ebury Press , and then sold the whole operation to Random House for a considerable sum of money . |
| 20 | JEREMY BATES last night joined Jo Durie as British national tennis champion and then challenged the younger generation to ‘ learn to compete ’ to take over their mantle . |
| 21 | We had a critical look at the one Lancaster and the one Mosquito , had a good laugh at the set piece showing the inside of a Waaf Nissen hut ( so tidy and so spacious ! ) , and then studied the dozens of squadron crests and emblems laid out in a large glass cabinet . |
| 22 | After ten years building warehouses , they moved into high-rise development in 1965 , and then spent the next ten years making their mark on the Toronto skyline . |
| 23 | However , he never did , and friends claim the poor man had come across the result by accident and then spent the next six years until his death trying to find the combination again . |
| 24 | However , he never did , and friends claim that the poor man had come across the result by accident and then spent the next six years until his death trying to find the combination again . |
| 25 | The mail was uniformly trivial , but he read it all and then stuffed the torn envelopes and their contents into his pockets for disposal elsewhere . |
| 26 | Reared by the pupils , all 12 and 13 , it was fattened and pampered , shampoo 'd and scrubbed — and then judged the best pig of all , Supreme Champion . |
| 27 | ‘ And then came the first tragedy . |
| 28 | And then came the first Wednesday in October — the day of the Woman 's Institute bush walk . |
| 29 | There was the cancellation of the second Test after the Guyanese government decided to deport Robin Jackman because of his South African connections ; and then came the real tragedy , when Ken Barrington had a heart attack and died during the third Test in Barbados . |
| 30 | But we opened on Sunday and did quite well , and then came the late rush , which was extraordinary : tills were ringing frantically . |