Example sentences of "then [vb past] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man did n't need telling twice , and as the boy began to follow him , Connor suddenly remembered : at some time during the evening , when the saloon till ran short of change , he had put in some silver of his own and taken out a fiver — then stuffed it in a pewter tankard on the shelf for safekeeping . |
| 2 | Eugene Forster paused , raised one of his bushy eyebrows , then slowly and deliberately , with the wisdom of previous experience , finished the whisky , drew one last time on the cigar then plunged it with a hiss into the water , before he took the ‘ phone . |
| 3 | He scratched under his bag wig , knocking it askew , then straightened it in a fussy way , all the time fidgeting in his seat as if the bugs were biting there too . |
| 4 | He calmed the animal , quickly inspected it , then led it to a second , checked this animal too for wounds and led it to Wynne-Jones . |
| 5 | Sheldukher raised the weapon and then lowered it with a sigh . |
| 6 | Fuqua Industries first estimated the cost of capital for the corporate group using CAPM principles and then modified it for a division by reference to fourteen key risk elements . |
| 7 | Melcarek and Brown then used it for a study of the effects of chill stress on both prompt and delayed fluorescence . |
| 8 | THE French count who is to marry the Princess of Wales ' stepmother , Raine , Countess of Spencer , said yesterday he felt ‘ totally abused ’ by people who rented his chateau then used it for a porn film . |
| 9 | A YOUNG thug killed a complete stranger with a baseball bat — then used it in a park game with his pals , a jury heard yesterday . |
| 10 | It stood about patiently until a crust dropped , then approached it with a sideways hopping motion and began to tear it . |
| 11 | He actually came into Frankfurt in his hired BMW , then changed it for a Mercedes . |
| 12 | In these conditions , the type of homosexuality that is mediated through pop music can only go just so far : in a perfect paradigm , Frankie Goes to Hollywood exploited the gay image of lead singers Paul Rutherford and Holly Johnson — for ‘ Relax ’ — and then dropped it like a hot potato as soon as another marketing device — this time , nuclear war became available for ‘ Two Tribes ’ . |
| 13 | He then holed it for a three . |
| 14 | Charles cut the hair up to the nape of the neck at the back , then graduated it into a flattering , face-framing bob . |
| 15 | Donald McCulloch grinned with pleasure and then turned it into a look of complicity for the younger men . |
| 16 | He then enclosed it in a transparent box which he provided with a mechanism for straining the specimen in bending . |
| 17 | He had gone 3 , 2 at the 11th and 12th , then followed it with a three at the 14th , where he hit an eight-iron to a yard . |
| 18 | Park Court , which houses Hilda 's flat , was at one time an outhouse for a local manor , but in 1931 the owner left it to the local council who then converted it into a fire station . |
| 19 | and then converted it into a you know , sort of , a modest hotel . |
| 20 | and then won it with a try from Tim Smith … there were signs of the Gloucester of old … the forwards charging … the backs taking the ball and finding space to score … |
| 21 | Sometimes he picked something up , squatting on heels to examine it , then slipped it into a bag that hung from his shoulder ; or put it down again , going on . |
| 22 | When Mrs Thatcher first came into power , she got hold of the pound note , held it up and tore it in half and then tore it into a quarter , and she said this is what the pound 's worth under the Labour government . |
| 23 | A man sitting at a three-legged stool emptied a dustpan full of rubbish over his suit and then removed it with a battery powered mini vacuum cleaner . |
| 24 | Local Gary Austin landed a 3 lb 2 oz 8 drm flattie during a Flounder League match and then topped it with a 3 lb 10 oz specimen while pleasure fishing . |
| 25 | That God created the world and then left it to a forsaken humanity , trying to address Him in an echoless void — this idea is n't new . |
| 26 | Just like the CEGB and ‘ proof ’ of a link between pollution and damage to lakes , the Commission put up one condition after another as a ‘ test ’ of whether Britain 's trees were showing decline , and then replaced it with a new argument if it was satisfied . |
| 27 | She opened a small drawer in the pretty rosewood table beside her chair , dropped the trinket into it , then closed it with a kind of finality . |
| 28 | She opened her mouth to ask it again , more directly this time , then closed it with a snap . |
| 29 | Whereas Vidor had started out with a theoretical notion and then wrapped it in a melodrama , Capra had started out with a fairly ordinary story and then breathed charm , wit , pace , sex , and reality into it , not least by harnessing the natural talents and showmanship of Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable . |
| 30 | Here he raised his cup to Madra and then drained it with a flourish . |