Example sentences of "then to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He enjoys his food and wine , but disallows its enjoyment to distort the image which is important chiefly to himself , and then to his public . |
| 2 | Then to his astonishment he heard the voice of the French boy , grunting like an animal in distress . |
| 3 | We make settlements by which we provide that property shall devolve from one person to another within the limits which the law allows , e.g. to a man , then to his wife , then to be divided among his children . |
| 4 | The officer thought he was about to urinate but then to his horror , it was claimed , he saw Magee turn and fire a pistol twice into Mr Goodman 's chest causing fatal injuries . |
| 5 | The basic design derives from the Italian Serlio 's Libro Extraordinario of c.1550 , and the arch is attributed to Giovanni Maria Filippi , who was court architect first to Rudolf II and then to his brother Matthias . |
| 6 | Wilfrid , however , reacted passionately , if not to the partition of his diocese then to his expulsion and to the bishops who were appointed from communities other than his own — Eata , who had been obliged to leave a new monastic foundation at Ripon to make way for Wilfrid in Ealhfrith 's time , now consecrated bishop in Bernicia with his see at Wilfrid 's monastic foundation at Hexham ; Eadhaed , a former companion of Chad ( HE 111 , 28 ) , bishop of Lindsey ; and Bosa , trained at Whitby where the community under Abbess Hild had opposed acceptance of the Roman Easter at the council of Whitby , bishop of Deira at York ( HE IV , 12 ) . |
| 7 | From John it passed to a cousin , then to his niece , Susannah Sharpe ( the ghost ) . |
| 8 | Her measuring glance moved to the corner of his mouth , where the line of his lips was prolonged in a short red scar , and then to his cheek-bone , which bore a suggestive blue stain . |
| 9 | Bewildered by the holocaust of events , by death that had suddenly changed a world , he began apologising , first to the policemen : ‘ I do n't know what to say , his best man to die like that … ’ and then to his son : ‘ I 'd give my right hand to have things different , Jack . |
| 10 | In the late 1640s and early 1650s , they lent their military support first to Charles and then to his son , the future Charles II , on condition that once the throne had been regained a Presbyterian church would be imposed upon the English . |