Example sentences of "then [vb past] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This information , based on the official records of Returning Officers , will initially be compiled for the 1981 elections and then expanded to include the results of those contests due in May 1985 . |
| 2 | A NIGHTCLUB bouncer accused of murdering Marie Wilks asked for a cloth to clean his car hours after her disappearance , then asked to keep the cloth , a court was told yesterday . |
| 3 | The clerks then agreed to call the police and one mugger was caught . |
| 4 | When his children died , he dallied , did not enter into a marriage contract but then agreed to marry the Princess Yolande . |
| 5 | They 're dyed also naturally in the medieval way with red for the madder and then welled to give the yellow as the basis of digris and then a woad an indigo from woad erm slightly cheating there because we could n't have enough woad , we have to use import the actual substance . |
| 6 | After several months of growing pressure the " Iraqgate " affair — which centred on the allegation that the US government had covertly supplied loans to Iraq and then sought to conceal the evidence — burst into the open during October . |
| 7 | The Iraqgate affair centred on the allegation that the US government had covertly supplied loans to Iraq and then sought to conceal the evidence . |
| 8 | Crown counsel said Alan Murray also denied everything at first and then admitted joining the UVF , while Craig said he was put under pressure to keep various items but denied he was a member of any illegal organisation . |
| 9 | In describing the negotiations for Æthelred 's return from exile in 1014 , this says that the king was informed that no lord was dearer to them than their native lord , if he would govern them more justly ( rihtlicor ) than before , and that he then promised to remedy the things that they all hated . |
| 10 | Hampshire County Council then proposed to reopen the baths as a much-needed facility for local people living in nearby tower blocks . |
| 11 | Oils , impasted thickly onto large canvases , layer over layer , spread like butter , then gouged to show the textures and folds of paint already lying beneath , have dominated Dariusz Romanowski 's painting style over the last couple of years . |
| 12 | Two events of outstanding importance then helped to settle the fate of each ; the capital of the Roman empire was transferred to Byzantium , renamed Constantinople , and Christianity became the state religion . |
| 13 | During the war she toured initially with a small company of Sadler 's Wells artists all over the country and then helped to keep the company alive by undertaking its management at a time when its very existence was threatened . |
| 14 | They heard and then stopped heading the wind breathing in the trees overhead and the stream rustling in the valley . |
| 15 | He then tried propping the others up on the climbing frame but they kept falling off . |
| 16 | Two of his victims successfully sued him and the plaintiff then tried to recover the damages from the defendant . |
| 17 | It made her eyes water but she stayed where she was until the saucepan was full , then tried to douse the flames . |
| 18 | With one hand he removed the hay and with the other held her shoulder , then tried stuffing the wisps down the front of her laced bodice . |
| 19 | He took the hoofpick out of Kaidu 's hand , then tried to lift the st'lyan 's hoof onto his thigh . |
| 20 | Eugenius then tried to dissolve the Council he had not wanted in the first place . |
| 21 | I then tried to deduce the events of the previous night and discovered some time later that I had been raped by force by XYZ who had been on the mini bus and followed me home . |
| 22 | She then tried to tear the plans in half , but the paper was of a strong variety . |
| 23 | It also provides a glimpse of Flanders as a place where a substantial number of fighters could be expensively equipped and then encouraged to leave the county for long periods . |
| 24 | Demons and angels flew through the air ; there were wonderful scene-changes ; there was a great storm in Erminia and at the end of Sant' Alessio a great cloud descended and then opened to reveal the glory of Paradise . |
| 25 | He nodded briefly , then turned to enter the house with Belinda following closely in the wake of his capable stride and feeling very thankful that he had arrived . |
| 26 | Paddy then turned to kiss the altar and when he turned back his hand was raised to give his first priestly blessing . |
| 27 | Fei Yen jumped down from her mount , letting the groom lead it away , then turned to face the messenger . |
| 28 | McQueen found the ruins , and then claimed to trace the road along which the goddess 's statue would have been borne in procession from the temple to the river for the ceremonial washing attributed to worship of Anaitis . |
| 29 | He worked the snaffle between the p'tar 's huge yellow teeth , then hauled to bring the animal out of the stall . |
| 30 | The selected garnet had to be split and then shaped to fit the cells and patterns ; alternatively , the cells may have been shaped to take the pre-cut garnets . |