Example sentences of "[conj] then [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I worked right through it and then looked up the proper translation , which was at the end of the book . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Paul has just that transformation in mind when he tells the Ephesians to put off the old self , be made new in the attitudes of their minds , and then put on the new self , ‘ created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness ’ ( Eph. 4:20–4 ) . |
| 4 | Turner was arrested after the first offence but released on bail and then carried out the second offence . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And though the visit could have given him an opportunity to kill his father , and then drive down the next day to discover the body , that was the one crime which every logical motive screamed against . |
| 7 | His grandfather had explained that the only true way to bake bread was to burn it black and then rasp off the burnt extremities with a coarse file . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sam Reed scored twice and then set up the third goal for Tom Cox . |
| 10 | In the end we decided to go to bed , and then set out the next morning just in time to catch the ship to Hamburg . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The most difficult part of the exercise , apart from handling the sheer volume of data that was being produced , was deciding what was meant by ‘ monitor and control ’ for each system element , and then drawing out the related information . |
| 13 | The aim of the game is to gas as many Jews as possible and then sell off the residual gold teeth . |
| 14 | The borrower gets the amount of this loan , minus the unpaid balance of the original one , as cash in hand , and then pays off the full number of instalments needed to pay off the full sum . |
| 15 | I got , oh I sort of like to use two and then cross out the wrong one . |
| 16 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | Clients will announce their intentions to the group , and then report back the following week . |
| 20 | Ha ha I 'll walk past this and open the door and then run down the other one and open that one ! |
| 21 | Everyone else went ahead on the basis of the animal data , and then found out the hard way that if it 's taken during pregnancy you get damage to the foetus . ’ |