Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [coord] then [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say fuck this war , in which the defenders of villages make a skirmish and then Army tanks and personnel carriers come in to protect what they have done ’ . |
| 2 | There was a groan , a sign and then silence . |
| 3 | On Aug. 27 Lord Owen ( who as David Owen had been UK Foreign Secretary in the Labour government in 1977-79 and subsequently a founder and then leader of the Social Democratic Party ) was named as Carrington 's successor . |
| 4 | But Muriel 's climb to film direction was slow and gradual , and she began her apprenticeship as a typist and then continuity girl , rising throughout the studio hierarchy . |
| 5 | Erm , first the district did it and erm they did n't want it so then it was decided to have , to share it with county and that was a disaster too and they did so many cuts each a year and then county took it over . |
| 6 | He also knew that his wife , after being secretary to a bishop and then secretary to the professor of divinity , and his hostess for eight years , was better equipped to be the wife of the new Bishop of Durham than any other woman in the country . |