Example sentences of "[noun] and then [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local biologist , Rocio L pez , claims that heavy rains wash nematicides into the waterways and then into the ocean . |
| 2 | Brown released his safety belt and removed his gloves , and with a crippled leg from the war , scrambled onto the centre section of the fuselage and then onto the wing . |
| 3 | Let your imagination roan with your desperately running heroine firmly in the centre of your mind and then from the incidents that will ( if you have a ration of luck ) spring up , arrange them in order of difficulty , if your intuition has not done that already for you . |
| 4 | She first began working in the winding department and then in the Dye House before her thirteen years ' as a cleaner . |
| 5 | Going for tea and then for the service afterwards . |
| 6 | In two days at Snetterton , first in the company of Benetton 's Formula One driver Martin Brundle and then at the wheel of the Snetterton school 's racing cars , I found that the limits of my own prudence , dependability and , even , sanity were disturbingly slim . |
| 7 | In Walsall Wood erm as I say , we used to have er two big bags full on a Fri Friday and then in the week we could go up but you 've got your bread but , you know , yo the men would be , I can just picture them with their little , all this pretty coloured paper would all be in little piles and when there were no customers , they would be wrapping the rice , the raisins , the currants , all in these pretty papers you see and they knew , I mean you 'd ask them for currants and they never sort of knew , I did n't quite understand how they could pick by , it 'd be by the paper you see . |
| 8 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 9 | And so , from the sick wards in the old House of Industry and then of the Bedford Union , through the workhouse infirmary , St. Peter 's Hospital , providing a comprehensive range of services for the sick and injured poor of the district , had emerged from the chrysalis as the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 10 | had been kind of , or whatever they are Mr F and then on the back it 's got for Peggy 's six foot high and under plant eighteen inches apart for high six foot plus plant two feet apart |
| 11 | ‘ We worked very closely with them on the hardware configuration , first in Oslo and then on the boat in Singapore , checking that our resources were capable of what we wanted to do . |
| 12 | The 1992 , Europe and Trade campaign , beginning in September 1992 , will have an emphasis on Latin America for the first four months and then for the remainder of the year will focus on Europe and Trade in the global context . |
| 13 | It was , it was very nice except that Fred had a piece and left the last couple of slices in the tin on the side and the dog took a shine to it so it was in a tin and then in the dog . |
| 14 | Gaelic is Hebrew but no one knew this until Pitman invented shorthand and then without the vowels it was clear that Gaelic and Hebrew were the same . |
| 15 | From 1974 onwards it evolved as a unit of account , first when its value was linked to a basket of currencies and then as the IMF denominated its growing balance of payments financing in terms of the SDR . |
| 16 | and erm whatever you may need a stock and that and put sliced potatoes in it and some carrots and then on the top I 've put sliced potatoes and left them on top of the casserole , well later on when I came home I just took the lid off and stuck in the top of the oven instead |
| 17 | Tug slumped into a chair and looked first to one side and then to the other . |
| 18 | She was followed by Rabbi Moishe , his sallow face with its rippling white beard inclining first to one side and then to the other as everyone did him honour by rising until he had passed , and just behind him came another black-garbed figure , a bespectacled priest , greying head covered by a yarmulkah . |
| 19 | She swept back a handful of Lucy 's hair and pinned it up , first on one side and then on the other ; but before she 'd reached for the scissors to begin , Charlie 's face appeared around the doorway . |
| 20 | ‘ Your friend , she is not with you ? ’ he enquired , with a solicitous bob first at Dora and then towards the door . |
| 21 | It seemed obvious that the best form of organization for overseas trade was the one that was used first in exporting wool and then by the cloth traders , who still accounted for three-quarters of English exports in the first half of the century : all the merchants involved would sell together at a ‘ staple ’ town , usually in Belgium or the Netherlands , where they could avoid competing with each other and so increase their bargaining strength . |
| 22 | Before we set off again , on along the coast and then across the sea , The Fat Controller saw fit to bifurcate our strange awarenesses . |
| 23 | Let us look in more detail at the difficulties inherent for everyone in appropriate penetration and then at the problems that can arise in marriage when these are or an extreme nature . |
| 24 | Into the dungeons and then onto the Fidchell board , ’ said Caspar , tucking his chins into his neck and looking solemn . |
| 25 | We follow his transition from international sprinter to club coach and then to the mastermind of an élite group of world-class sprinters — Angella Taylor-Issajenko , Tony Sharpe , Mark McCoy and Desai Williams were all medal-winners with Ben Johnson in the Commonwealth Games of 1982 . |
| 26 | I looked at the buttons next to the fruit stall because what I usually do I go and get the fruit and vegetables , if Jim 's on the right shift he takes them home , otherwise I buy them while it 's quieter , the man keeps them for me , I go straight across the leisure centre to soft clay cos it 's only open on Wednesdays and then on the way back one of them walks |
| 27 | He looked through the windscreen and then through the driver 's window . |
| 28 | Narouz had been angry , first with the girl for playing the fool and then with the eunuch for not finding her . |
| 29 | Originally he worked from Shrewsbury on the Bristol run and then on the West Country routes when he moved to Old Oak Common , London . |
| 30 | Here is a special Times supplement , no less , devoted to the future recovery of Lebanon in which I write of the ships returning to Beirut port , of the re-opening of central banking facilities , the renovations at the temples of Baalbek , the arrival of the first postwar tourists — Swedes , of course — who were bussed off to the ruins of the Palestinian camp of Tel al-Za'atar and then to the Bekaa . |