Example sentences of "then [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Cowan then laid on the table the fifty volumes from Cassells Library which he presented to the Society . |
| 2 | I woke Laura , then shouted on the guys to waken them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | No , he came out for about ten minutes then he said I 'm going back in the house mummy , just then flopped on the chair |
| 5 | The plaintiffs also appealed against the decision of taxing master right , er and then appealed on the basis that er there should be no disallowance for any interest at all . |
| 6 | Dr. Leadbetter then commented on the other side of the coin ; the problems of under-funding were to some extent compensated for by the rewards of hard earned success . |
| 7 | He then turned on the assembled crowd and mounted a scathing verbal attack on them . |
| 8 | He then embarked on the serious biographies which made his name . |
| 9 | He then served on the Frontier in the Mohmand Campaign with 5 Field Company . |
| 10 | Trent fumbled with his right hand behind his neck , then collapsed on the sand where he lay sprawled , his right arm thrown back above his head , clay-sodden hair shading his eyes . |
| 11 | But too late , at another signal from Jean-Claude , the girl in the mack clutched her side and stumbled , then collapsed on the ground , and shuddering , turned over as the camera came close and moved out to hover over her face and catch her bitter smile as she died . |
| 12 | I untied the painter from its iron ring in the concrete , then squatted on the jetty and watched him fiddle inside the hatch . |
| 13 | They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production . |
| 14 | Coun Richmond then called on the Tory group to support the Labour measure but claimed it would never have been proposed without the prompt of his motion . |
| 15 | His eyes searched the room rapidly , then fell on the door leading to the connecting bathroom . |
| 16 | The ferrymaster was absent across the Forth so Corbett told his escort to rest ; they opened their provisions , ate and drank and then lay on the sand-strewn grass , enjoying the warm noon sun and listening to the birds overhead and the constant chatter of the bees and crickets . |
| 17 | We then went on the Underground on the line to Victoria where we caught the 08.35 train to Hayward 's Heath . |
| 18 | She trained at Liverpool ( S.R.N. , S.C.M. , Q.1.D.N.S. , Hospital Gold Medal 1963 ) and then went on the district in her native Westmorland . |
| 19 | I then clicked on the Auto Summation icon and the results were instantly inserted — and because I had left an empty row between the data and the row in which I wanted the totals , a ruling was automatically added . |
| 20 | Agnes sighed , then bit on the front of her forefinger before she turned to Jessie again and said , ‘ Look ; if you 're so sure he 'll turn up , we 'll say nothing for the time being . |
| 21 | He then appeared on the left wing to take a scoring pass from Brian Cowton after good work by the pack . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Miss Beti Jones , Chief Social Work Adviser , Social Work Services Group , then spoke on the social work aspect . |
| 24 | He was right , of course , she knew that , but she picked up the brandy Mick got her and downed it in one , then hovered on the edge of her seat until he gave up and walked her home . |
| 25 | Zen slowly mounted the steps , and then paused on the threshold . |
| 26 | The rest of us watched them disappear among the trees and then continued on the broader path , climbing slowly . |
| 27 | I wondered what they were thinking , then pondered on the fineness of the dividing line between exhilarating adventure and irresponsibility . |
| 28 | The filter was constructed as shown in the diagram and then stood on the wooden crosspieces on top of the vat . |
| 29 | What its function was and what relationship it bore to the building-complex which then stood on the site of the later temple has yet to be established . |
| 30 | Vice-chairman Sydney Moss revealed : ‘ He came here at the age of four , then stood on the Kop when he was old enough . |