Example sentences of "then [vb past] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three points then arose in questions : |
| 2 | The landlord then relented in part and gave her back the keys to the bedsit . |
| 3 | For a time he manufactured white lead in Birmingham ( 1841–4 ) , and then adventured in copper smelting in Neath in south Wales ( 1844–8 ) . |
| 4 | MacBride toured the United States denouncing British policy in Ireland and Africa , and then lived in Paris until an amnesty allowed him to return to Dublin . |
| 5 | He then lived in Pagewood , Paley and Pugin Streets until he moved to Old Bidston Road to work for Cammell Laird as a French polisher . |
| 6 | I do n't know whether , people thought that erm if they interfered with me I would n't er I would n't play or what it was but then , anyway erm when the war ended , as I say I got a bit erm worried and erm I then got in touch with er Mr who was then er , then taken over from Sir Cecil Clerk of the Council or Chief Executive and erm , he suggested that erm I might take a course for the erm Home Workers Diploma For The Blind which erm was , well it was a sort of specialized er social worker really . |
| 7 | Huy spread his hands submissively , but then winced in pain as Surere suddenly leant forward and seized his shoulder , the strength of ten men in his large , bony hand . |
| 8 | Voices buzzed , then rose in laughter or to make a point more forcibly . |
| 9 | The clerk ignored him but now and then shouted in Arabic and a customer came forward to collect a form or a tattered bundle of money . |
| 10 | ‘ Sorry , sweetheart , you need a pass , ’ he said , then gawked in surprise as she pushed past him and dashed straight through . |
| 11 | Beat for 15mins , then beat in glycerine . |
| 12 | Cool pastry for 5mins , then beat in eggs one at a time until mixture is firm , glossy and elastic . |
| 13 | Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy , then beat in eggs , a little at a time . |
| 14 | It then reconvened in Sofia ( the capital ) on July 17 , formally accepted Mladenov 's resignation , and elected as speaker ( and acting President ) Nikolai Todorov of the BSP . |
| 15 | Ms Robinson trained at Darlington College of Education which then specialised in nursery teaching and the town , she says , was a pilot for nursery education . |
| 16 | He then specialised in sports photography , becoming a director of The Image Bank , Italy , in 1978 . |
| 17 | Pausing for a moment to admire the trim lines of the expensive vehicle , she dug in her bag for her keys , then muttered in annoyance as they slid from her fingers . |
| 18 | Cryptic teaser : Whose Red Army marched on Moscow , then retreated in agony after a shoot-out ? |
| 19 | Encouraged by the three amateur musical societies which then flourished in Nuremberg , he published Newe teutsche Lieder , zu drey Stimmen , Nach art der Welschen Villanellen ( 1576 and 1577 ) , Newe Teutsche Lieder mit vier und fünff stimmen ( 1577 ) , and Neue lustige Teutsche Lieder , nach art der Welschen Canzonen ( 1586 ) , in which German polyphonic song , no longer exclusively Tenorlied , is crossed with an Italian strain ; he also wrote a few Italian madrigals . |
| 20 | The doctor thought for a moment and then nodded in agreement . |
| 21 | She shrugged , and then giggled in surprise as the rounded shoulders of the spacesuit ascended like blunt-nosed rockets on each side of her helmet . |
| 22 | In all control and spinal patients studied , there was an initial increase in external anal sphincter electromyographic activity on insertion of the anorectal tube which then declined in concert with the anal pressure to reach a stable baseline . |
| 23 | The attackers then vanished in rush hour traffic . |
| 24 | You know how he 'll behave because you 'd behave the same , ’ she sneered scathingly , then yelped in alarm when he curved a large hand round her neck and urged her roughly towards him , giving Hilary little choice but to climb on to the fork . |
| 25 | The isolation of the village from the outside world was mitigated by the existence of a close-knit village community with which the farm worker could identify and which provided him with the range of institutions and amenities which he then required in order to live the year round . |
| 26 | But the moment Renaud reached the Saracen lines , he was put into irons ; the Christian defenders then watched in horror as he was dragged before the castle and tortured in front of them . |
| 27 | Then collapsed in bed exhausted . |
| 28 | I hope you will do your duty ’ , and then collapsed in tears to be led weeping back to the palace and to her new role as Regent . |
| 29 | He then settled in California , where despite occasional returns to the theatre ( notably in the first production of Bertolt Brecht 's The Life of Galileo in 1947 , which he also adapted ) he focused mainly on such films as Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) , The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1939 ) , Witness for the Prosecution ( 1957 ) , Spartacus ( 1960 ) , and Advise and Consent ( 1962 ) , returning only rarely to Britain and only notably for David Lean 's Hobson 's Choice in 1954 . |
| 30 | My successor as Chief Inspector was Geoffrey Wilkinson , a pilot of wide experience who fought in Korea in a USAF squadron under the exchange scheme , then flew in operations with the RAF . |