Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] then [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , Miss Carter wanted me to go pupil-teaching and then take a teacher 's course , well that 's one thing I could do ; it 's not too late , I 'm only twenty-two . |
| 2 | The ball then waits at the bowler 's end of the pitch until the reset button switch , S3 , on pin 4 of the IC3 is operated ; taking pin 4 high and then resets the flipflop and pin 13 of IC2 goes low , enabling the clock again to run the wicket sequence from D1 to D10 . |
| 3 | First raise interest rates to r 2 and then manipulate the money supply to reduce it to Q 2 . |
| 4 | Today a car manufacturer might make engines in one country , steering wheels in another and then assemble the car in a third . |
| 5 | It would be easier to plant the tuber first , in a pot consisting of the above mentioned medium and then to place the pot in a shallow tank . |
| 6 | As already stated , the reason for the retention is the exquisite pain associated with passing urine , and the best way of solving the problem is to apply some local anaesthetic ointment until the vulva and external genitalia are completely numb and then sit the patient in a warm bath until urine has been passed . |
| 7 | He warned : ‘ In politics you should decide what is right and then decide the presentation not the other way around . |
| 8 | Everything needing a temporary home found its way into the stable and then became a permanency . |
| 9 | She 'd have let him get in as deep as possible and then started the pressure … |
| 10 | The relic there was credited with making barren women pregnant and then relieving the pain of parturition . |
| 11 | The East Lothian man took the third set 7-1 , came from 1-4 down to take the next 7-4 and then opened the decider with three singles . |
| 12 | Karamanlis , 83 , had presided over Greece 's return to democracy in 1974 , holding office as Prime Minister until 1980 and then serving a term as President from 1980 to 1985 . |
| 13 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 14 | You will sometimes be asked to er look at something like that and then put the time signature in . |
| 15 | When he found it , he tapped along the feed pipe at random and then gave a couple of good , square bangs on the connectors before he tried the starter button . |
| 16 | A starter of courgette and wild mushroom flan is made by cooking potatoes , leeks and courgettes until soft and then squeezing the puree dry . |
| 17 | She completed victory by taking the tiebreak 7-5 but not before she lost her serve to 5-5 and then saved a set point at 5-6 . |
| 18 | Each of these advances in ‘ unjust ’ aggression at the expense of its opposite and then pays the penalty , retreating before the counter-attack of the latter , the object of the whole cycle being to maintain the balance of justice . |
| 19 | The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change . |
| 20 | This is a good ploy to get the children to shout loud but then to contain the noise within the call . |
| 21 | John Taylor , Curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum and Nicholas Reeves , formerly at the B.M. and now Honorary Curator of the present Earl of Carnarvon 's Egyptian collection at Highclere Castle , have brought together objects and documents that trace Howard Carter 's Egyptian career up to 1922 and then follow the archaeologist into his retirement as consultant and dealer and finally death in 1939 . |
| 22 | In Europe the ravages of war had to be made good and then came the enlargement of universities , government institutes , and industrial establishments . |
| 23 | this prevents civilians from becoming far too powerful and then becoming a dictatorship . |
| 24 | The Model Forms of Rent Review Clause contain a provision entitling the other party to pay the expert 's fees in full and then reclaim the balance from the non-paying party as a debt payable on demand . |
| 25 | ‘ Fix one line , foul up two more and then take a tea-break ! ’ |
| 26 | He reached up , took the weight of the body and lifted it higher and then wrenched the material of the tunic from the barbs of the wire . |
| 27 | So I suggest you actually copy the first three notes of bar fifteen and then put the rest in correctly . |
| 28 | His ‘ Sanspareil ’ , which competed unsuccessfully in the Rainhill locomotive trials of 1829 , instituted by the directors of the London and Manchester Railway and won by the ‘ Rocket ’ of Robert Stephenson [ q.v. ] , gave excellent service until 1844 and then became an exhibit at the Science Museum , London . |
| 29 | At this point , technique becomes personal preference : you can either make the cut in the stock first and then prepare the bud for insertion , or prepare the bud , put it into your mouth ( handle protruding ) to keep the cut surface wet , make the stock cut and slip the bud in straight away . |
| 30 | They moved slowly , effortlessly , stroking her breasts with feather-light touches at first and then deepening the pressure as her flesh burned hotly under his touch . |