Example sentences of "[noun] and then [v-ing] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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1 | Lucy said , clambering to her feet and then looking around for anywhere that she might have missed . |
2 | Film-making involves acting for 10 minutes and then waiting around for two hours . |
3 | He remembered her in the old days , singing at parties for hours and then turning up for rehearsal next day without any sign of strain or tiredness in her voice . |
4 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
5 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
6 | Carmichael wanted to avoid the risk of plucking remedies out of the air and then casting round for arguments to support them , which , he said , was the common practice in local authorities . |
7 | She 's here er , and she put me in a hospital and then going off for something . |
8 | He probably worked on all his victims this way — softening them up , earning their trust and then moving in for the kill . |