Example sentences of "who then [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the time for the funeral approached , so the RUC began to arrive to take over on point duty from the UDR , who then merged into the background but nevertheless maintained a discreet but ever-watchful presence . |
| 2 | Consultants were brought in to coach team leaders , themselves working members of the unit , who then passed on their new-found knowledge — the cascade concept . |
| 3 | The Evangelicals usually honoured Cranmer , but Macaulay did not , writing , somewhat unfairly , ‘ The sanguinary intolerance of a man who then wavered in his Creed excites a loathing to which it is difficult to give vent without calling foul names . ’ |
| 4 | In the Syrian town of Suwaida , a French force of 3,000 troops was routed by Druze militiamen who then advanced on Damascus . |
| 5 | In the words of the new Socialist minister of transport , RENFE was ‘ at the same time a breeding ground and nursery for training ministers who then went into the government , and an elephant 's graveyard for those leaving the government ’ ( quoted in El Nuevo Lunes , 24–30 January 1983 ) . |
| 6 | Now in the early thirties this was too much for the troops to take , so they took their problem to Shaw who then went to the NAAFI and bought all the cups for a penny . |
| 7 | Fabia watched as , dropping the dog lead on to a large kitchen table , the dark man addressed a few remarks to the woman who then went to a drawer and took from it a large tin box and brought it to him . |
| 8 | Such a change may also have social implications , the rise of individuals having the wherewithal to employ a craftsman , who then benefited from the arrangement personally and who could distribute the products to the surrounding region . |
| 9 | In a walk around the garden of GHQ on April 30th , Falkenhayn , with that sure touch of his , managed to reassure his master , who then declared to Bethmann : ‘ Now you have the choice between America and Verdun ! ’ |
| 10 | and eventually after some searching they nominated someone who then resigned from her post not Clare |
| 11 | It was also splashed over the back seat of the car , which was then set ablaze by the pair , who then fled into the darkness . |
| 12 | In the final and decisive Jan. 6 attack , 60 highly trained security troops abandoned the President , who then fled from the back of the building . |
| 13 | The objective defined in 1858 was to enable ‘ persons requiring medical aid … to distinguish qualified from unqualified practitioners ’ and we need only read some early issues of the Lancet to learn that the medical register was regarded at the time as a list of doctors who set themselves higher standards than the multitude of quacks who then preyed on the sick . |
| 14 | He was received in a friendly fashion by the master of a French Basque ship of St Jean-de-Luz , who then turned on him , imprisoned him and his men , and stripped the Pilgrim of all but a minimum of food and sails . |
| 15 | On the following day , Elinor 's door was thrown open by a nurse who then stood to attention as , smiling benignly , Matron Ivy Braddock appeared in the doorway . |
| 16 | The next morning — or soon , anyway — Spunk was beamed up on to the bridge of the low-lying spaceship by the mischievous , conical , beep-voiced aliens , who then travelled through time and beamed Spunk down again into Greenwich Village , 1980 . |
| 17 | In that case , the dispute arose out of a DTI investigation into a suspected ‘ mole ’ , working at either the Office of Fair Trading or the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , who passed on price sensitive information to others who then dealt on the basis of it on the Stock Exchange . |
| 18 | One who then worked at Moscow University , Nguyen Khanh Toan , suggests that during his Moscow years he was provided with a Russian wife . |
| 19 | Don Letts — who then worked for Acme Attractions and was until recently part of Big Audio Dynamite — was always in . |
| 20 | At an illegal rally opposing the peace terms in Hibiya Park , Tokyo , on 5 September , speakers fired chauvinist sentiments among crowds who then clashed with police . |