Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] then the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fine town houses of the eighteenth century , some of them now embassies , give way slowly to the more compact residences of the nineteenth , then to the woods and then the seaside suburb of Scheveningen . |
| 2 | You were , however , closely linked with the Dadaists and then the Surrealists ? |
| 3 | Now in a way what you could say what we have here is a trunk of a tree and the branches and then the leaves and the fruit at different levels on this . |
| 4 | So hard copy reports are produced out of the ledgers and then the results are taken and keyed into FDC . |
| 5 | Now , after a century of colonisation from Moscow , first by the Tsars and then the Bolsheviks , the gentle people of Kyrgyzstan , descendants of nomadic herdsmen , are finally standing on their own . |
| 6 | It expands the follicles and then the cleaning agents dry and harden . " |
| 7 | Into this situation would arrive the time-travellers who , not knowing the reason behind the world 's stagnation , would re-activate first the robots and then the machine , learning to their cost that heartless , electronic megalomania is infinitely worse than emotion-based megalomania . |
| 8 | She hates parks ; it takes half an hour to get there from the flats and then the kids are put inside one lot of railings like some kind of animals and you walk up and down inside another lot and watch them . |
| 9 | And then they had the handles and the tassels and then the top there was a tin sort of plate . |
| 10 | Katherine remained seated , listening to her daughter 's footsteps hurry up the stairs and then the ceiling creaked as she entered her bedroom which was directly above the sitting room . |
| 11 | ‘ For Christ 's sake , get out ! ’ he roared , and after an interminable second , he heard her footsteps running down the stairs and then the sound of her car on the drive . |
| 12 | Right , now let's do a bit of hot seating hey , where one of you will sit on a chair and pretend to be one of the characters and then the others will ask a question . |
| 13 | It 's like that one there they they left er i they left the blues and then the tr trouble was caused you see . |
| 14 | We were able to study all stages of the exercise , starting with the preliminary visits of the director and the advisers to the school , followed by the self-evaluation activities , the inspection itself , feedback from the advisers and then the presentation of the report to governors . |
| 15 | We joined first the Brownies and then the Girl Guides and Ranger Guides . |
| 16 | Back in the power pack repair bay , Corporal Tait and his crew are still working as first the civilians and then the soldiers finish their day 's tasks and return home . |
| 17 | As she talks the servant brings the drinks and then the lunch , a grilled fowl with some preserves . |
| 18 | The theme which interests such theologians is that of liberation : this is both read out of the scriptures and then the scriptures are read in terms of this theme . |
| 19 | Before his death , the Dragoons visited the farm ; they searched all of the outbuildings and then the house but , as if by a miracle , they failed to enter the room in which ‘ The Prophet ’ lay dying . |
| 20 | Erm , so a slide lecture pre-prepared for use by the teacher , the analysis carried out by the pupil using the slides and then the visual material and work cards made available to pupils . |
| 21 | There is a story behind each call , and I should keep a journal of the conversations and then the encounters . |
| 22 | When they arrive in America , they 'll get the pips and then the police will catch them ! ’ |