Example sentences of "[conj] then [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She waited until the door was closed and then crossed to the window of her suite , pulling the curtains aside . |
| 2 | The best example of that type of person is the liberal who professes to be anti-war and anti-violence and then goes to the boxing matches or watches the football game and screams his head off . |
| 3 | And then goes to the library to get the book she wants |
| 4 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 5 | Let's sleep , and then get to the siege camp . |
| 6 | Adams stated that whilst he and Moore were at supper he saw an unusual light in the direction of the Body Shop but , instead of going to see what it was and turning on the water from the hydrants to endeavour to arrest the progress of the flames , he caused the alarm bell to be rung and then ran to the gate to admit the Fire Brigade . |
| 7 | The spell was broken , the pool was rippled from its serenity by the way he snapped instructions to her and then ran to the Administration block . |
| 8 | To accomplish this , the spirit has to wander old cemeteries until it finds a human skull , put it on its head and then turn to the North Star . |
| 9 | The exhibition ‘ Al-Andalus : the art of Islamic Spain ’ was first shown at the Alhambra in Granada last spring and then moved to the Met over the summer . |
| 10 | He has a long and distinguished career in public health medicine : he was the first doctor to give a patient penicillin in 1941 and then moved to the post of director of the Medical Research Council 's Pneumoconiosis Research Unit , investigating diseases of the lung . |
| 11 | The exhibition continues at the Kunsthaus until 2 May and then travels to the City Gallery in Kyoto , Japan , from 6 June to 4 July . |
| 12 | Another described how a strong rope was thrown over one of the barn 's tie-beams and then fixed to the horse 's harness . |
| 13 | This is mainly what we are concerned with here , as it these areas that can cause us problems when designing and then transferring to the console . |
| 14 | Each day each of us sheds 50 million skin cells which rise on the warm air produced by the body and then fall to the ground forming a trail like a microscopic paper chase . |
| 15 | UI president Peter Cunningham believes the new ABI could mean up to 75% commonality between the systems for the software programmer , initially on the client side and then moving to the server . |
| 16 | The youth was approached by another man as he walked along High Row and then beaten to the ground . |
| 17 | I love you I love you — it 's become some trilling song popular for a lurid month and then dismissed to the club circuit where pudgy rockers with grease in their hair and yearning in their voice will use it to unfrock the lolling front-row girls . |
| 18 | Meanwhile at New Bradwell , boys would rush home from school to collect lunch baskets , place them in hand trucks , and then run to the messroom ( over one mile ) , so the meal was plated just before the men came out of work . |
| 19 | Pipe-fitter Michael Huntington , 29 , was given emergency first aid by medics , and then rushed to the hospital 's casualty unit . |
| 20 | To hit this road they had to go north a little from Fort Augustus and then swing to the west . |
| 21 | For those who wish to take a car close and then walk to the top of the hill without too much difficulty , take the A836 to Loch Loyal near Lettermore and climb straight into the corrie Loch Na Creige Riabhaich and on to the main summits . |
| 22 | Once the amplifier has boosted the signal it is clipped to provide a digital pulse rather than an analogue waveform and then fed to the computer via the switch . |
| 23 | The lift was absolutely essential for some of the barrels were extremely large being brought from the Goods Station on horse-drawn drays and then manoeuvred to the road on specially constructed ramps which clipped to bars at the back of the carts . |
| 24 | Remove from the freezer , whisk well until completely smooth again and then return to the freezer until the ice-cream is firm . |
| 25 | The galaxies may continue to recede from each other but , under the influence of the Universe 's own gravity , begin to slow down and then start to come towards each other again — in exactly the same way , and for exactly the same reason , that a ball thrown into the air will slow and then return to the ground . |
| 26 | It should take only 5 minutes to tell parents how to run the intervention for so many weeks and then return to the baseline . |
| 27 | Walkers who have visited the caves and potholes already mentioned , and enjoyed doing so , will be sorely tempted to stay on the limestone shelf and search for the dozen or more other similar openings hereabouts and then return to the Hill Inn for refreshment . |
| 28 | St Louis would be a nearly two-hour flight , and then getting to the university and making polite conversation … |
| 29 | The track , after leaving the ridge , went steeply down for a few yards and then turned to the right and ran diagonally across the hill for a hundred yards ; the pile of rocks was about midway on the right-hand side of this length of the track . |
| 30 | Suetonius rapidly completed the subjection of south and central Wales , and then turned to the mountain massif of Snowdonia and the centre of hostility it screened . |