Example sentences of "and then " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you wish to give small amounts regularly , e.g. monthly , you could accumulate the money in a separate account and then convert this to a gift to ACET every time the amount reaches £600 . |
| 2 | Amnesty 's job is to breach these walls , to discover the truth within , and then to act . |
| 3 | The following critical passage comes from this piece , first published in the Fortnightly Review in 1869 , and then in 1873 in Pater 's book , Studies in the History of the Renaissance . |
| 4 | The goal of art history is first to place the work of art in history and then assess it in the light of its unique position . |
| 5 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 6 | Barr 's European equivalents flourished in the 1950s rather than the 1930s — Jean Cassou at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris , Wilhelm Sandberg at the Stedlijk in Amsterdam , Pontus Hulten at the Modern Museum in Stockholm and then at the Pompidou Centre in Paris . |
| 7 | The best preliminary plan may be for the reader to open the book upright at ( the illustration ) and then go to the other side of the room , to be imposed on from a distance : it is the nearest the book can offer to the proper first encounter with the figure . |
| 8 | How beautiful , how devoid of everything like the handicraft of art it is — the largeness , and yet ingenuity of its effect — the purity of its colour — the truth , yet refinement and elegance of the action , particularly of the hands ( in which he particularly excels ) ; and then , a lesson to all high-minded slovens , the patient vigilance with which the whole is linked together , by touches , in some instances small almost as a miniature , but like the sparkling of water . |
| 9 | The problem of criticising the work in exhibiting societies ' shows is how little space is made available in newspapers for its coverage ; the critic has time to mention a painter or a sculptor , make a brief observation , and then passes on . |
| 10 | Manzù 's girl is thus described by Trier first as an artefact , and then as a person ; his terms of reference are the characteristics of two other sculptors . |
| 11 | He wants to go to university , turns up to listen to Einstein , studies hard ; but his father wo n't have it , and at the age of 14 he becomes a soap boy in a barber 's and then a presser in a garment shop . |
| 12 | And then mother and child might lie awake for a while , locked in unique perplexities . |
| 13 | Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 14 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 15 | Justin goes back to England for a while , and then , having broken some hearts , arrives in the Sudan to perform his own suicide . |
| 16 | His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates . |
| 17 | And then there are the tougher types : Edmund from King Lear , a romantic macho figure with a wide eye for fame and fortune . |
| 18 | Through lovers ' brains , and then they dream of love ; |
| 19 | And then dreams he of smelling out a suit ; |
| 20 | And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats , |
| 21 | Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon |
| 22 | And then comes Answer like an Absey book : |
| 23 | ( Some schools have been able to co-ordinate work with the National Film School , where a script has been written for the personalities in a group and then filmed on location , and this worked effectively . ) |
| 24 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 25 | But I love playing comedy and then I 'm not very tall . |
| 26 | And then six of us did an extract from Great Expectations . |
| 27 | I only had twenty four hours ' notice and then I sat up all night learning a speech and then dried flat at the audition . |
| 28 | I only had twenty four hours ' notice and then I sat up all night learning a speech and then dried flat at the audition . |
| 29 | Sometimes you 're a week away from the last performance you gave and then find yourself out there — so that the voice and understanding of the part does need constant refreshing . |
| 30 | I think you have to see what the system is and then see how you get it to work for yourself . |