Example sentences of "then [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Smadja argues that knowledge of relations such as these is necessary to both understanding and generation , and he outlines an approach for automatically acquiring such restrictions from a corpus , and then using it to augment an existing lexicon .
2 He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it .
3 Probably the single most important step in the whole process is learning how to make up a grid and then using it to control the structure of a document .
4 Research shows people would actually prefer the dignity of shopping for their own food and then cooking it themselves , with assistance .
5 And then cooking it .
6 A wave slapped the back of his neck , first throwing him upwards then drawing him down , and he slid beneath the surface like a waterlogged spar .
7 He kept trying to put his near-side front paw to the ground and then drawing it up again , hopping on three legs .
8 The design is created by wrapping a weft thread around four ( or sometimes more ) warp strands and then drawing it back and wrapping it around two , a technique of " looped " weaving not dissimilar to the way fishermen make their nets .
9 Formed by looping the pile yarn through two warp strands and then drawing it back through one .
10 Was she having a sly laugh at his expense , talking nonsense and then cornering him with a sudden question ?
11 Again , this is not radically different from the attitudes of many parents towards children of higher intelligence , who believe that their children should experience pre-school education , perhaps attending a play school or nursery from the age of three onwards , and then encouraging them to pursue further education at school leaving age .
12 She used the cry of her voice to draw them to her , allowing them first to fly away and then encouraging them to swoop back at the height of their arc of flight .
13 Anxiety management training is about helping clients to understand what is going on , then teaching them skills to cope with anxiety , then encouraging them to put themselves deliberately into situations which create anxiety but with which they cope successfully .
14 Whilst most of this macro was created using the Macro Record facility , the sections which deal with the path and document name were added by loading the macro as a file and then typing them in .
15 Select EDIT TEAM , and change COMPUTER ( top left of screen ) to your own name by placing the cursor over the first letter then typing it in on the keyboard .
16 Exercise , measuring food and then eating it , dominated my life .
17 As part of the internal assessment process , some self-assessment should be involved , through children 's discussing a piece of writing with the teacher or with their peers , and then redrafting it .
18 But the white beast with her laughed , letting her run , then catching her , once … twice … finally throwing her to the ground ; rolling on top of her ; defiling her …
19 Twenty-four hours ’ salt , and then hanging them .
20 After that he turned away from the bed , picked up his jacket which Irina had dropped on the floor , began to put it on , then realising he had no shirt on , dropped the jacket , found the shirt and put that on .
21 It is to make them by accelerating two beams of protons up to energies of 20TeV and then colliding them head on .
22 MAGICIAN Jonathan Pendragon , 37 , was bitten to the bone by a tiger after apparently making it disappear then bringing it back .
23 It di we do n't get all the details in the story that Jesus tells of here , but it 's quite certain that it was n't just a case of wandering along a nice path until he found the sheep and then bringing it home .
24 I 'm taking anything I do n't want damaged home I think the night before and then bringing it back next Monday .
25 It is appropriate here to start with the main equation in the form ( 10.62 ) using the variables t and z defined by ( 10.60 ) , and then transforming it by putting ( 10.72 ) where the parameters v and η are not necessarily real .
26 ‘ If you part from a lover there is no point in saying goodbye and then seeing him every day , ’ she said .
27 It seems stupid now but you ca n't imagine what it was like stumbling about in the dark and then seeing him daubing away … whoever heard of painted flowers … ’
28 seeing him and then seeing him on that
29 I could see no just cause for carrying on after arguing vehemently against the idea , then seeing it carried .
30 ‘ Old people bringing something out of the attic they 've never cared for , and then seeing it fetch thousands of pounds at auction .
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