Example sentences of "was [verb] [conj] then " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their official car , following behind the royals , was stopped and then forced into a police compound . |
| 2 | I would have thought they 've simply , it had to be agreed that that was stopped and then as the professor has said , I mean we give all the aid we can to turn their erm military er industry into erm , what was it , instead of guns . |
| 3 | She attended the English Church until Lowe was dismissed and then tactfully discovered she had her own chaplain and therefore did not need to attend either of the rival churches . |
| 4 | Ata'i writes that Molla Abdulfettah , having been appointed to the Seyfeddin medrese in Ankara with 50 akce , was dismissed and then restored to that medrese " with [ an ] judgement " ( that is , that the medrese was to be judged to be in the and treated accordingly ) and continues : " His became and , by reason of the esteem [ due to/shown to a ] [ muderris ] , the mouth of his hope smiled . " |
| 5 | The paper was dismissed and then ignored until , in the early 1960s , the crucial geophysical evidence supporting Wegener 's theory led to a rapid paradigm shift in the earth sciences . |
| 6 | The police were called in , the museum 's curator-in-chief , Mme Lydie Huyghe , was sacked and then indicted for ‘ complicity in embezzling public funds ’ . |
| 7 | I was knocking and then and then he said and er I just stood there he said like you know you 're not allowed to be here it 's too late , it 's the boys ' area erm come on , sort out , you know , come on sort it out you know like he says that |
| 8 | And er maybe about five six years ago , a parcel of blankets came from Iceland for the Longhope lifeboat , from this same woman , and there had been no contact whatsoever between the time she was rescued and then , which was amazing . |
| 9 | Yeah , you could say what it looked like and what was happening and then say , Well I 'm not quite sure what the convention is for writing them |
| 10 | Oh yeah I suppose it will be much too early Left home at er today come in , I thought I so I 'd only gone about half a mile down the road filled up my car , paid the money the car would n't start I kept turning nothing was happening and then all of a sudden after a couple of minutes it erm like the way I 've button up my coat ? |
| 11 | Owers helped Sunderland beat Port Vale at the beginning of their Cup run , but was substituted and then aggravated his groin trouble in the following 6–2 home win over Millwall in mid January . |
| 12 | ( 1 ) Heparin-bovine serum albumin(BSA) conjugate ( a model proteoglycan ) and VCAM-1 ( an endothelial ligand for VLA-4 ) were co-immobilized on plastic ; ( 2 ) MIP-1 β was added and then washed out to assess only the effect of immobilized cytokine ; and ( 3 ) we assayed binding of resting CD8 + T cells to all eight combinations of the three components : integrin ligand , proteoglycan and cytokine ( Fig. 2 a ) . |
| 13 | It seemed about par for the course , so I applied , was interviewed and then offered the job , all in reasonably quick time . |
| 14 | Again , currently there is no way , official way , of saying what plan has been made and whether the plan was met and then logging it into whatever system that you guys are going to dream up for recording what training you have given . |
| 15 | We were putting an album together based on his light rock/folk style that he was developing — songs like ‘ Janine ’ , ‘ Unwashed And Slightly Dazed ’ — all that country rock flavour that he was developing and then , out of the blue , he wrote ‘ Space Oddity ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ The girl was strangled and then savagely raped . |
| 17 | Photography over , antiseptic was applied and then more photography . |
| 18 | The amendment was accepted and then the complete resolution was voted on and unanimously accepted . |
| 19 | Bellowing ‘ Vatch me ! ’ he took off to show how it was done and then stood chatting at the bottom while we failed to do it . |
| 20 | And then it was boiled and boiled that it was er tender and that and then it was taken out and cut into bits and this is what a potted head And then it was That was done and then er Where the water what was boiled there was often fat but that was all skimmed off , and er next day there was as much water in the And er meat from the head was put in and pepper and salt and that , and then it was boiled again and then put into little dishes and that was your potted head . |
| 21 | A percutaneous cholecystogram was done and then the fundus of the gall bladder was punctured with a Kellett needle ( 152 mm long dwell sheathed needle , Becton Dickinson , Ontario , Canada ) , using a combination of ultrasound and fluoroscopic guidance . |
| 22 | Excavation was done and then also the documentary we have was continued . |
| 23 | Servicing of steam locomotive No. 90 was carried out at the Severn Valley Railway Works at Bridgenorth where a complete new firebox and boiler was made and then shipped to Galway for installation . |
| 24 | So it 's appropriate that he 's been chosen to make new gates for the North porch of Hereford cathedral , to replace wrought ironwork that was made and then removed centuries ago . |
| 25 | Added to which was the emotional harassment of fellow priest Laverty whose idea of support was to visit and then accuse her of trying to wreck the life of a good priest . |
| 26 | With Wayne ( RH ) acting as scribe , the first draft was written and then revised : Figure 2.1 Poem about a bombing raid : stage 1 Figure 2.2 Poem about a bombing raid : stage 2 |
| 27 | there was this witch doctor and Scooby Doo was — he was standing by the witch doctor and the witch doctor went in and he went — he went chasing him Scooby Doo went in the cupboard with Shaggy and got some clothes on and they were acting on and then the witch doctor pressed the button and they turned on again then and then Scooby was acting and then they just take him and he keeped on switching it until they all came round and the all clothes fell off him . |
| 28 | In this capacity Baker submitted biannual reports and advised on legislation , which was elaborated and then codified by the Factories Act of 1878 . |
| 29 | The volume of dispersed acini from each pancreas was measured and then the acini were suspended in the incubation medium saturated with oxygen and maintained at 37°C in a shaking bath . |
| 30 | thought erm that the tissue was growing but then I looked at it last night and it was a bit |