Example sentences of "then [vb past] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's court hearing came in the seventh week of the bitter dispute which began as a strike in protest over lay-offs then led to the sacking of 340 workers . |
| 2 | Yesterday 's hearing came in the seventh week of the dispute which began as a strike in protest over lay-offs then led to the sacking of 340 workers . |
| 3 | Mr Sloan then agreed to the postponement . |
| 4 | She then applied to the Secretary of State for payment under section 106 . |
| 5 | Once I had written these letters , I then applied to the Department that was officially responsible for serving the Diplomatic Corps . |
| 6 | type faces which can be stored on a disk and then downloaded to the printer when required for printing . |
| 7 | meetings with the Poultry Sub Committee which then reported to the Agriculture Sub Committee |
| 8 | She then fled to the Queen in London , feigning surprise on her return . |
| 9 | In 1973 , after 22 years , he then moved to the warehouse as Superintendent , becoming Warehouse Manager in 1986 . |
| 10 | She then moved to the Paragon , which she remembers once again for the view over the city and the estuary and for its huge Georgian bathroom which had a balcony . |
| 11 | She nodded curtly at a respectful errant mother then stooped to the car window . |
| 12 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 13 | The church then came to the Order of the Shod Carmelites who built a monastery and rebuilt the church from 1723–38 . |
| 14 | Under cover of the rugby-players , who surrounded them so that they were invisible to the sentries , two officers managed to bury themselves underground , where they remained until darkness : they then came to the surface and made their escape . |
| 15 | I drove away slowly and then came to the corner of Union and Gloucester . |
| 16 | She then hastened to the dining-room , expecting to find Silas and Matt at the corner table , but there was no sign of either of them . |
| 17 | The reduction gear linking engine and propeller had failed and a broadside of bits had hit the prop which then added to the shrapnel . |
| 18 | He dropped the friend off , then drove to the allotment . |
| 19 | He first dropped the man off and then drove to the allotment . |
| 20 | He then drove to the office of a friend who was an architect , and within minutes had persuaded him to come and examine the job to be done on the house . |
| 21 | It then reverted to the church , not without some controversy , and it is now known as the church rooms . |
| 22 | This last , for example , came from Persia in the early years of the sixteenth century , was given a medrese by Bayezid II , then turned to the career of a kadi , serving , according to Mecdi , in Serez and Filibe , among other places . |
| 23 | He then turned to the Elixir of Life , only to have the magic formula stolen again , this time by a woman . |
| 24 | Lord Denning then turned to the claim that the minister had acted improperly . |
| 25 | Leaning her bike against the gate , she hopped up and over , then raced to the bridge and under it , and stood in the middle of the road holding both hands out and shouting to the van to stop . |
| 26 | I hesitated , then nodded to the lad . |
| 27 | ‘ My pleasure , ’ she retorted then walked to the door where she paused to look back at him . |
| 28 | Cowley just watched him implacably , then walked to the phone as Bodie said , ‘ We searched Latowa 's place . |
| 29 | He got off the bike at the bridge and left it propped against the suspension cables , then walked to the middle of the swaying bridge , where the gate is . |
| 30 | On this particular occasion , Sherman saw no collar hanging in the usual spot , and so , after looking carefully , he then walked to the toy shelf ( where the collars are sometimes inadvertently left ) and searched through the toy bins . |