Example sentences of "then [vb past] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later stages , cottage and craft industries were moved into factories , which then led on to the development of ‘ machinofacture ’ ( mechanised production ) through technological innovation . |
| 2 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 3 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 4 | The lift halted at the twelfth floor for the girls to get out , then whispered on towards the fifteenth . |
| 5 | I asked him , ‘ Have you got any old letters in the attic ? ’ and he said ‘ Yes ! ’ ’ , is his mildly amazed recall of this historian 's jackpot — one which he then capitalised on by a determined digging out of all the other surviving relatives , enabling the construction of the definitive Shrewsbury family tree in the book . |
| 6 | We then moved on to the spiralling property prices in Oxford , the purchase price of the Parsons ' house compared to its current estimated value , the solicitor 's recent attic conversion , and so on and so forth . |
| 7 | I was a European top salesman with er that company and then moved on as a franchise . |
| 8 | It found an eddy where the outpouring of a supply conduit splashed steadily , and it swung , steadied , and then moved on into the gloom . |
| 9 | Tony came back and handed her a tall glass of iced Pimm 's filled with fruit , then flopped on to the sun-lounger beside her , smiling in his uncomplicated way . |
| 10 | Miller dropped him at the main administration then drove on to the vehicle pool and , he said , some food and shut-eye . |
| 11 | The officers then climbed on to a porch and smashed the windows but were still unable to reach the victims . |
| 12 | This was followed by a film of a mediaeval banquet at which the guests , after much lusty eating and drinking , undressed one another at a leisurely pace , then climbed on to the refectory table for a general post , to the accompaniment on the sound track of much wheezing and grunting . |
| 13 | Ray and I exchanged those few words , then climbed on towards the concrete parody of a summit . |
| 14 | She eased back and kissed him , then walked on into the kitchen , her limp dictating the tiny sway of her hips . |
| 15 | She hesitated by the door of the sitting-room , then walked on down the passage . |
| 16 | At Tim 's call , the car slowed down and then swung on into the track leading to Smiling Meadow . |
| 17 | Vic hesitated , then sprang on to the filing cabinet . |
| 18 | He stumbled then fell on to the track , his scream silenced abruptly as he disappeared beneath the screeching wheels . |
| 19 | Alexei gestured at the still-quivering sword , and then strode on into the house . |
| 20 | He then went on to a pre-foundation course , then the intermediate course at Sutton Art School , followed by two years at Wimbledon Art School . |
| 21 | I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand . |
| 22 | Two Asian students Perveen Akraman and Shanaz Anwar began by improving their language skills , then went on to a beauty care course for women and recently they both enrolled on a car maintenance course . |
| 23 | He started his carrier as a lyrics writer and then went on to the Daily Telegraph . |
| 24 | Ninety three members and friends then went on to the Headlands Hotel for a celebration dinner where all the ladies received a white carnation . |
| 25 | As is well known , the Sunday Times case then went on to the European Court of Human Rights which held that the injunction violated Article 10 of the Convention and its right to freedom of expression . |
| 26 | He then went on to the University of Leipzig where he stayed for four years , except for an interlude in Berlin of eighteen months . |
| 27 | He then went on to the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) on Dec. 23-24 , Kuwait on Dec. 24-26 and Oman on Dec. 26-28 . |
| 28 | ‘ The roof restoration began in 1982 and we then went on to the rest of the building repainting emblems throughout the length of the station , ’ he said . |
| 29 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
| 30 | She hesitated , then went on in a small voice , ‘ I think I was afraid of what you could do to me . |