Example sentences of "then [vb pp] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quiss was led by the dwarfish scullions , through the banked ranges past gleaming tubs , boiling vats , open fires and grills past rows of massive , wing-nutted pressure cookers guarded by blast screens , under huge n-shaped pipes , bubbling and gurgling and leaking steam , and over the dainty , counter-sunk tracks of a narrow-gauge railway until eventually he saw a wall ahead , and was led up a rickety wooden staircase to a narrow gantry then stopped at a small wooden door set into the wall . |
| 2 | We passed two ruined abbeys , one with a tower and one without , and then stopped at a four-house township . |
| 3 | The light is then collected at a single detector and classified electrically . |
| 4 | The light is then collected at a single detector and classified electrically . |
| 5 | Sarah kept out of sight , then followed at a careful distance , swinging a basket . |
| 6 | The corridor they had travelled along had turned an abrupt corner and then ended at a blank , curved wall . |
| 7 | As a result , controversial local plans tend to attract numerous objections which are then tested at a local inquiry . |