Example sentences of "then [vb pp] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 1 March 1325 Edward III issued letters patent embodying the terms of a settlement , which was then ratified at the parliament of Northampton in May . |
| 2 | She rubbed a hand over the leafy belly , then plucked at the growth , tore it gently open , as if parting the folds of a shirt . |
| 3 | Further questionnaires are then completed at the end of the eight-week programme and at three months follow-up . |
| 4 | If this card is an instruction card it must be obeyed by the person asking the question , the instruction card is then placed at the bottom of the pack , instruction cards are ren randomly mixed with the question cards and can change directions of play , make you give to the player to the left one of your cards etcetera , if a player has more than it does n't say . |
| 5 | The main and ribber carriages are then placed at the end of the needlebed . |
| 6 | ‘ He put his foot between the two bottom rungs of the ladder and then caught at the upright to save himself from staggering . |
| 7 | There is no doubt that the site then secured at the top of the Carrickblacker Road was the best of all those they had considered . |
| 8 | I jumped and slid down the slope of the dune into its shadow , then turned at the bottom to look back up at those small heads and bodies as they watched over the northern approaches to the island . |
| 9 | She started to leave , but then turned at the doorway and said : |
| 10 | The beamed sitting room has an open fire and the appropriately named ‘ honesty bar ’ where guests are invited to help themselves to drinks , and then record their indulgences on a slate — charges are then made at the end of the visit . |
| 11 | But though their name lives on in the region of Tuscany , the Etruscans actually survived for only a short period ; they were expelled from Rome by the Latins and then defeated at the battle of Aricia in 506BC . |
| 12 | Whether they died naturally or were ritually murdered they were cremated , and then buried at the centre of a great mound . |
| 13 | Whether they died naturally or were ritually murdered they were cremated , and then buried at the centre of a great mound . |
| 14 | The wood is piled into the kiln , which is then lit at the bottom . |
| 15 | He was a member of the teams which won in Ohio in 1987 and then tied at the Sutton Coldfield course two years later , and commented : ‘ Playing in the cup is the best thing ever . |
| 16 | The Duke stared at Sharpe for a few seconds , then flinched at the blood which was caked on the Rifleman 's jacket . |
| 17 | He showed scores of slides and then announced at the end of his presentation that each was from a different crag . |
| 18 | She cut the hair close to the nape of the neck , leaving it long on top to keep it soft and then graduated at the back to create a heavy wedge . |
| 19 | From 1940 , when he made his first broadcast as a quiz-master in the BBC radio series Ack , Ack , Beer , Beer , he was a constant broadcaster and in 1943 , by then stationed at the Air Ministry in London , he created and wrote with Squadron Leader Richard Murdoch the long-running radio series Much Binding in the Marsh , a take-off of a fictitious RAF station . |
| 20 | Keown then left at the end of his contract after being unable to agree terms with Graham over a new deal — and alleging that the sticking point had been a request for £50 a week more than he was offered . |
| 21 | Here was the suggestion of the spreading fan of an eminent Victorian , a beard clotted with high-flown phrases and guilty secretions , a beard of mad power that then faded at the edges into the ineffectualness of a declining constitutional monarchy . |
| 22 | The trigram matrix is then accessed at the start index and processed until either : |
| 23 | They had only a short time before followed the tantalising fresh scent-trail laid by Grant and Larsen , which they had then lost at the foot of the house wall . |