Example sentences of "and then [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just , get a bath and then got to bed . |
| 2 | Suppose the suspect had taken the taxi to get rid of Carella , got out at the hospital to confuse matters further , walked around the comer to the terminus and then continued by bus to his original destination ? |
| 3 | She shrugged , and then giggled in surprise as the rounded shoulders of the spacesuit ascended like blunt-nosed rockets on each side of her helmet . |
| 4 | He worked as one of the cooperative who ran Blot , the alternative newspaper where Miranda often published — though Blot in her view was well-named , for every page was printed in several coloured inks and a variety of types , and then overprinted in palimpsest . |
| 5 | It flickered and flew along the elding , and then burst into smoke , so thick and foul in the throat that I was fain to get on my knees behind a boulder , for the wind out of the cove sent it downhill … |
| 6 | Loretta took her friend 's advice and then listened in surprise as , in spite of the hot weather , Bridget ordered a casserole . |
| 7 | Sarah had previously suggested that they should try the effect of Queen Caroline 's ‘ Christmas trees ’ — young fir trees set in tubs and put upon the table or in a window seat and then decked with penny candles . |
| 8 | Well , they 'd find out soon , she thought , glancing at her watch , and then stared in amazement as a heavy black motorbike cruised lazily into the consultant 's slot and stopped . |
| 9 | The Jordanian canteen manager noticed that the expiry date stamped on the cases by the Dutch manufacturers had already passed ; he sent a telex to Tripoli explaining his reasons for refusing to accept delivery , and then went on holiday . |
| 10 | A LONE gunman killed a French Nazi collaborator yesterday , and then went on television to claim responsibility . |
| 11 | Mr Vassiliou , a 61-year-old self-made millionaire , telephoned his opponent to congratulate him and then went on television to concede defeat and appeal for national unity . |
| 12 | He was ordained deacon in 1863 and priest in 1864 , served for two years as his father 's curate in Langley Burrell , Wiltshire , and then went as curate to Clyro , Radnorshire . |
| 13 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 14 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 15 | The Dormouse woke up for a minute and then went to sleep again . |
| 16 | However , her feelings of hopelessness increased over the next 3 weeks and late one night , after she had been drinking alone , she took an overdose of the tranquillizer mixed with paracetamol and then went to bed . |
| 17 | Nothing happened at all , she waited all day to see , and then went to bed , no doubt very pleased with herself . |
| 18 | I sang and danced in town , and then went to bed in Edinburgh Castle . |
| 19 | ‘ Last night I went to an art exhibition in my sister-in-law 's gallery and then went to dinner to celebrate my brother-in-law 's birthday . |
| 20 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 21 | At school he had a three-year affair with a fellow student — ‘ a rummaging around adolescent affair ’ — and then went to college ‘ and got into girls ’ . |
| 22 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |
| 23 | He presented the mayor of West Berlin with a statuette of a woman holding a dove of peace and then walked through Checkpoint Charlie . |
| 24 | Apparently this did nothing to alleviate the situation , and the house was uninhabited for many further years and then fell into disrepair . |
| 25 | The woman , whose hands were still bound , clambered from the back seat into the front of the two-door car and then struggled to safety . |
| 26 | For a time he manufactured white lead in Birmingham ( 1841–4 ) , and then adventured in copper smelting in Neath in south Wales ( 1844–8 ) . |
| 27 | The clerk ignored him but now and then shouted in Arabic and a customer came forward to collect a form or a tattered bundle of money . |
| 28 | Twenty-four pairs of painted lips let out long-drawn gasps and then broke into speech . |
| 29 | We sat through some very boring speeches which attempted to make the thoughts of Mao , Marx and Lenin exciting and accessible to a bunch of dumb women , and then broke for coffee . |
| 30 | The Sergeant glowered at Rincewind , and then peered at Twoflower with interest . |