Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] then [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rain , whipped up by the wind , bit into her face , stung the softly tanned skin on her neck and then trickled down the inside of her blouse , to merge with the hundred other rivulets of water that soaked into her skin . |
| 2 | Eight students and four staff from Knowsley Community College in Huyton will travel to Greece by minibus and then drive over the Albanian border in two old ambulances packed with hospital equipment . |
| 3 | To measure a ship 's speed , medieval sailors used to throw a log on a length of knotted rope over the side and then count off the knots . |
| 4 | He drove a few miles out of the village and then pulled off the road to wait for dusk . |
| 5 | The second method is for central planning to make the master plan and then to hand over the outlines of a sub-plan to the departments who fill in the details of their own sub-plan . |
| 6 | Asik was glad to get a drink ; it did not matter to him if the water was dirty or clean , he was thirsty and gulped down as much as he could , washed his feet and then filled up the water jug . |
| 7 | The modern method , which is largely though not totally superseding the above , is to sample the signal at frequent intervals and then carry out the Fourier analysis digitally . |
| 8 | The Phalangists stormed into Tony Franjieh 's home , murdered 32 of his supporters and bodyguards and then set about the ritual execution of Suleiman Franjieh 's beloved son . |
| 9 | If the law is not clear , first pose the legal question and then set out the authorities bearing on it . |
| 10 | The Woman gave him one look and then switched off the light and Doyle settled himself in the chair and sat silently in the shadows . |
| 11 | Rose helped Maggie to write away for the forms and then to fill in the forms when they came . |
| 12 | Both guards broke clear , looked round for a moment and then leapt up the bank into the wood . |
| 13 | Er , I understand there was problem because of the computer breakdown which caused a certain record to be lost but then I discover that there is no copy of man manual copy of orders sent to the contractors for repairs kept so that having lost the computer record the council do not know what lights have been reported to contractor for repair and then find out the basic clients |
| 14 | Trees cut her view for part of the way and when she could see the street door leading to her flat she noticed a man dawdling by , looking up and down the pavement and then strolling back the way he had come . |
| 15 | Spoon into the prepared baking dish , season with the nutmeg and then sprinkle over the Parmesan . |
| 16 | I began the basic structure of the rose leaves in the bottom left of the picture and then built up the shape with the larger open roses , tucking the asparagus fern and gypsophila behind them , and finally put the buds into position . |
| 17 | With that beat I needed a really stomping guitar line to go with it so I worked it through in my head and then worked out the chords on the piano . |
| 18 | Rain packed half her things and then picked up the telephone . |
| 19 | Turner was arrested after the first offence but released on bail and then carried out the second offence . |
| 20 | This means that you do n't have to wait for WSP to read all the text on any page and then edit out the unwanted bits , but can tell it exactly what you want read in the first place . |
| 21 | Our aim is first to determine the variation of electric field as a function of radius and then to work out the capacitance per unit length . |
| 22 | This led , they argue , to a situation where decisions were made by the elite at the top of the management hierarchy and then fed down the line of command . |
| 23 | Ha ha I 'll walk past this and open the door and then run down the other one and open that one ! |
| 24 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 25 | The correct way to shut the machine down is to type EXIT to return to Windows , quit Windows and then switch off the machine . |
| 26 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |
| 27 | I knew it was inside , set a trap within the hole and then blocked up the entrance . |
| 28 | One point of contention is GPU 's plan to use a crane inside the reactor building to lift the 170 tonne steel top off the reactor and then lift out the 40 000 uranium fuel elements in the stricken reactor . |
| 29 | There are concrete operational thinkers — those who can only begin to solve such a problem in concrete operational terms by drawing physical or mental images of the boxes and then counting up the total . |
| 30 | Next , mark the outline of the board onto the film and then lay down the positions of the copper pads to act as a reference , just as we did in the ‘ direct etch ’ method last month . |