Example sentences of "and then at the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But how were they to ensure survival in the game , and then at the highest level ? |
2 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
3 | They have irresponsibly encouraged people to withhold payment , and then at the eleventh hour they have made payments , leaving those poorer people who were foolish enough to follow their appalling example to face the consequences of now owing a lump sum . |
4 | Meanwhile , Sir Richard Terry , first at Downside Abbey and then at the newly-built Westminster Cathedral , did important work . |
5 | Part One ( Chapters 1 to 6 ) looks at the tools needed for plumbing and then at the various pipes and fittings used for the majority of jobs . |
6 | he looked down at the two hands locked onto his arm and then at the small man hurrying on ahead , and realized that he still had his chaperons , and once again they were not of his own choosing … |
7 | In the middle , humping up the roof like an ungainly pillar , stood the death of William Egan at the hands of Terry Place ; at one end , like a bearing wall , was the whole dead Pitt family , and then at the other end there sprouted , surprisingly , as a kind of ante chapel , the death of the student , Malcolm Kincaid . |
8 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
9 | He looked at the copper bosom covers she had to wear as a belly dancer — and then at the less than fully-endowed nature of Miss Harris 's bust and said cuttingly , ‘ Which way up are they supposed to go ? ’ |
10 | She held the letter over the basket , ready to consign it to being thrown away , and then at the last minute snatched it back and put in in her desk . |
11 | Now , if you 're going to er er er er want everything and then at the same time , want to reduce the budget , then I think you 're like the man who wanted a cake an and you 'll find that he wanted to eat it , so I think you 've got to come to terms and be realistic . |
12 | For further empirical proof of the theoretical pudding , let us look first at the French , and then at the Italian achievements . |
13 | He spent like four hours or something with the attorney general and with these three other staff over there … and they spent most of the time talking about all aspects of the Iran initiative and so forth , and then at the very end Meese pulled out that April memo … and said , ‘ what about this ? ’ |
14 | Unlike his cousin , Alexander 's nephew , Sidney Gilchrist Thomas [ q.v. ] , with whom he was to collaborate , Percy received a complete education , first at Felsted School , and then at the Royal School of Mines ( 1868–71 ) , where he trained as a metallurgist and analytical chemist and was Murchison medallist in July 1870 . |
15 | Margaret Clifton taught for a time in England , and then at the British Institute School in Madrid . |