Example sentences of "then [vb pp] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole company was arrested and held and then transferred to gaol in London , where Nayler was tried . |
| 2 | After the war he began commentating on radio then moved to television in 1951 . |
| 3 | Arthur Sando from Swindon lent a hand with the rescue , then helped to flag down traffic to prevent it making it worse . |
| 4 | They were straightened , then cut to length on a saw , drilled , and placed adjacent to their assembly points . |
| 5 | It was too early for me to be a Yuckie — the tabloid newspapers ' shorthand for the young city slickers who celebrated the end of a day 's trading with too much lager and then reverted to type as the football hooligans they really were under the skin . |
| 6 | The mill was powered originally by water , then converted to steam in 1811 and finally to electricity in 1914 . |
| 7 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 8 | He was then taken to hospital for observation . |
| 9 | The response of those engaged in the arduous labours which led to the conclusion of the Convention is no doubt not dissimilar to that of the scholar who writes a book on the doctrine of unconscionability in contract law and is then taken to task by a reviewer for his failure to cover breach and termination — in other words , for not writing a different book . |
| 10 | The reactions were performed in the absence ( - ) or presence ( + ) of DNA and then subjected to SDS-PAGE with subsequent autoradiography . |
| 11 | Both reactions were performed in the presence of DNA and then subjected to SDS-PAGE with subsequent autoradiography . |
| 12 | Both reactions were performed in the presence of DNA and then subjected to SDS-PAGE with subsequent autoradiography . |
| 13 | Prisoners had also been killed , including several dozen at Bubanza Gendarmerie who were gagged and then beaten to death with pieces of pipe . |
| 14 | In the meantime , the injured driver and GAB workers were attended to by a first aider by GAB and then sent to hospital by ambulance . |
| 15 | Her thoughts then returned to part of the conversation with her aunt . |
| 16 | The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication . |