Example sentences of "[conj] then [v-ing] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you would n't have to spend a fortune on , on , on I mean it 's only a matter of most of it 's a matter of paint , and then hanging a few things up is n't it ? |
| 2 | Think in terms of putting a one in front of that and then moving a decimal point two places and it 's one point four five . |
| 3 | Its aim was to act as a bluff in the wage negotiations in order to shame the Councils , first into meeting each year , and then setting a respectable wage increase . |
| 4 | Father Poole listened , now and then muttering a few words of encouragement whenever the voice faltered . |
| 5 | The second-half saw Ranger 's stand-in keeper , Ally Maxwell at the centre of things — firstly coming out his box in the 60th minute to bring down Gareth Evans — and then producing a marvellous save from Darren Jackson 's header from the resultant free kick . |
| 6 | He had won three of his four races as a two-year-old , including the Grand Criterium at Longchamp , and as a three-year-old had taken the Two Thousand Guineas Trial at Ascot before beating Petingo and Jimmy Reppin in the Two Thousand Guineas itself and then producing a telling burst of speed to win the Derby from Connaught . |
| 7 | Depending upon each plant , where it is planted and how it is supported , this tendency can often be countered by cutting back hard , encouraging the break-out of new growth from the base — and then using a little plant ‘ psychology ’ . |
| 8 | The starting point in the exercise is the determination of the key purpose for the whole occupational area and then using a functional analysis approach to work from the ‘ whole ’ down identifying the competencies required to achieve the key purpose . |
| 9 | Sometimes the polyphony is treated in a free manner , voices imitating each other loosely for a time and then taking a free course until imitations begin again . |
| 10 | Ipswich Harriers ' young sprint star , Laura Seston , 14 , had an amazing afternoon , clocking 12.4 seconds to win the under-15 100 metres , and then running a 25.8 seconds 200 metres . |
| 11 | But for our last point we had to rely on being half-right about two issues : we rightly predicted a Common Market between the US and Canada — but wrongly thought it would also include Mexico and Venezuela ; and we predicted that unemployment would rise sharply in the West , causing more flexible working patterns — but were over-optimistic about the implications , seeing masses of people returning to school in middle life and then starting a new career . |
| 12 | By briefly touching the metal tip on a germanium crystal , moving the tip to another part of the crystal and then applying a large voltage , they placed a single germanium atom at the new spot . |
| 13 | The general approach to developing a Z-Score model consists of taking samples of failed and solvent companies , computing a large number of financial ratios from their accounts , more than 80 in the case of the models discussed here , and then applying a statistical technique , such as stepwise linear discriminant analysis . |
| 14 | Nigel mentioned that his father had been a teacher in Zambia , and then adopting a humorous intonation , as if to cover himself , he added that some ‘ of these chappies were none too bright ’ . |
| 15 | The journey through painful feelings is part of coming to terms with troubled emotions , and then devising a realistic strategy for emotional and social survival and the re-commencement of personal growth . |
| 16 | Is it true that a former DTI Minister , who happens to be the current treasurer of the Conservative party — the noble Lord Beaverbrook — in five months made a profit of £50 million by purchasing and then selling a huge tract of the fragile Guyana rain forest ? |
| 17 | Now four years later I 'm doing British social and economic history , seventeen hundred to the present day , and then listing a whole lot of textile inventions and the flying shuttle and so on , all of which did n't work anyway . ’ |
| 18 | You can exert considerable control in a meeting through concentrated listening and then making a relevant contribution . |
| 19 | Emma looked into her mother 's face , and then making a small movement with her head before turning away and , gazing through the windscreen , she said , ‘ I 'm … |
| 20 | Gamma Cassiopeiæ in the W-shaped northern constellation of Cassiopeia is usually about magnitude 2.2 , but in 1936 it flared up to 1.6 before fading back to below its normal brightness and then making a slow recovery . |
| 21 | Which she totally buggered up by getting us to sing the theme from Aspects Of Love and then making a big speech about the Pope . |
| 22 | Although Big Blue has said that its interest lies in exploiting computer technology and developing digital film ‘ software ’ rather than creating movies , we can not imagine IBM buying half or more of an enterprise and then remaining a passive investor . |
| 23 | You hitchhiking in my rucksack all the way up here without me knowing and then doing a perfect impression of a police loud hailer . ’ |
| 24 | Goodier will be playing a Disraeli Gears record tomorrow and then doing a special session with the band on Wednesday night . |
| 25 | ‘ I was in here one afternoon , practising and then playing a few frames . |