Example sentences of "of [noun] then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years later , Charles reminded an assembly of how " a part of the realm was assigned me by my lord and father … and in it the metropolitan see of Sens then lacked a pastor . |
| 2 | She took a sip of champagne then put the glass down . |
| 3 | For a more curly effect , tong smaller sections of hair then run your fingers through the curls to separate them out |
| 4 | When he did , he made a gurgling kind of noise then rose to his full height in the pew and bellowed like a bull-calf , ‘ NOREEN ! ’ |
| 5 | Keep to the right-hand side of bank ahead , following it until reaching electricity posts , then bear quarter right to gate at brow where a clear track turns left across corner of field then continues to Pengold farm . |
| 6 | The level of bequests then depends on the nature of preferences ; for example , whether bequests are a ‘ luxury ’ good ( Atkinson , 1971 ) . |
| 7 | we 've been slightly more amenable but invite to your club temerity to ask your Lordship rather me , but as I 'm on my feet , er ask your Lordship whether you could sit at all early on Friday as to help Mr er , I , I was little concerned to hear Mr say that he was going to wait for Mr he had responded because that would of course then extend more into Friday , it may be more sensible if Mr could have |
| 8 | Well yes we had you could see on some of them , they did n't want much to turn them on , you know there was two or three there and they they took some others with them of course then did n't they , you know . |
| 9 | The hostility can of course then take the form of ‘ masculine ’ behaviour being aggressive , or ‘ loud with the mouth ’ ; and we can find girls offending three behaviour rules ; they infringe the good pupil role , the femininity rule and the girls-are-better-than-boys presupposition . |
| 10 | A different set of rules then operate to impose limitations on the expression of aggro . |
| 11 | ‘ I think I 'll go home for a couple of hours then come back later , ’ replied Nina , standing up and draining her mug . |
| 12 | Dodson nodded a couple of times then shed from the byre . |
| 13 | It becomes oddly insulting , not only because it rules out appreciation of beautiful souls lurking behind plain faces , but also because the kind of admiration then given to the beautiful woman begins to assume that her equally lovely nature is sweet , kind , gentle and unselfish — an image of passive , yielding femininity . |
| 14 | The analysis of ideology then takes on a critical role by describing the social determination of knowledge in terms of particular social forms that both give rise to the contradictions present in ideology and are legitimized by its content . |
| 15 | A deliberate change of direction then took her to Granada Television in Manchester as a programme researcher . |
| 16 | WE spend thousands of pounds on road safety , yet the DoE are allowed to go out on the roads and lay a spraying of tar then scatter shovels full of loose stones on top of it . |
| 17 | Members of Parliament then have an opportunity to discuss and amend , accepting or rejecting the proposals in the light of what they consider to be the needs and desires of their constituents . |
| 18 | The two sets of waves then cancel each other out , rather than adding up to a stronger wave as one might expect ( Fig.4.1 ) . |
| 19 | 3 Play a game of football then put on your boots . |
| 20 | A sensible division of labour then suggests itself . |
| 21 | But in the advanced technologies , up to our own time , it has been almost impossible for working companies to have direct access to their relevant means of production , and a third form of the division of labour then appears , and in capitalist conditions becomes stable and regular . |
| 22 | I 'll have a cup of tea then bash on with my window then I think . |
| 23 | Her mother was still sleeping and Maureen hastily drank a cup of tea then returned to her ambulance . |
| 24 | He took a couple of paces then stopped , twisting round . |
| 25 | The recorded rate of crime then remains on a rough plateau until the end of the 1930s . |
| 26 | The Head of Department then said that he considered that the criticism had been constructive , that he accepted most of it and would try out various changes . |
| 27 | The Head of Department then went through the objectives one at a time and satisfied the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and the Director of Studies that , with different emphases , the objectives were all subsumed in the 3 criteria for the assessment of pupils ' work . |
| 28 | A region of uncertainty then remains . |
| 29 | Two kinds of experiment then led him to think again ; in their most advanced forms , they are called the ‘ fan ’ experiment and the ‘ step ’ experiment . |
| 30 | If you are out of condition then exercise , or the movements you make , will cause you some degree of physical and possibly psychological distress . |