Example sentences of "then [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharpe blew the Prince 's whore a kiss , then rode to find a crossroads . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The clerks then agreed to call the police and one mugger was caught . |
| 5 | When his children died , he dallied , did not enter into a marriage contract but then agreed to marry the Princess Yolande . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Iraqgate affair centred on the allegation that the US government had covertly supplied loans to Iraq and then sought to conceal the evidence . |
| 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 | He then proposed to gather an army to use against Aquitaine , to secure his alliance with Scotland , establish an alliance with Castile , foment rebellion within Aquitaine , recover what had been lost to the English and then attack and destroy England . |
| 11 | When the FBI then proposed to kidnap a fugitive US financier , Robert Vesco , from the Bahamas , the Justice Department produced a legal opinion blocking the plan . |
| 12 | Hampshire County Council then proposed to reopen the baths as a much-needed facility for local people living in nearby tower blocks . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She looked up at the rook 's nest and the grey sky beyond , then bent to pick a clump of white winter aconites to take home to Josh . |
| 17 | Two of his victims successfully sued him and the plaintiff then tried to recover the damages from the defendant . |
| 18 | It made her eyes water but she stayed where she was until the saucepan was full , then tried to douse the flames . |
| 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 | We then tried to rent a garage ( long and thin and hence more the shape of a church ! ) but this fell through too . |
| 23 | He said Mr Hawthorne then tried to grab a bowl but Mills , 18 , knocked it out of his hand . |
| 24 | According to the defendants ' version of events , a women had approached Khmara for help , claiming that a man had attacked her ; Khmara and his companions then tried to make a citizen 's arrest on the man , unaware that he was a KGB officer . |
| 25 | She then tried to tear the plans in half , but the paper was of a strong variety . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Ben jumped ashore and tied the rowboat up to the small , wooden jetty , then turned to give a hand to Peng Yu-wei who stood there , cradling a sleeping Meg in one arm . |
| 29 | Robins coolly beat Hallworth then turned to watch a flock of blue shirts besiege the linesman to no avail . |
| 30 | 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 . |