Example sentences of "[noun pl] and then [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local biologist , Rocio L pez , claims that heavy rains wash nematicides into the waterways and then into the ocean . |
| 2 | The 1992 , Europe and Trade campaign , beginning in September 1992 , will have an emphasis on Latin America for the first four months and then for the remainder of the year will focus on Europe and Trade in the global context . |
| 3 | From 1974 onwards it evolved as a unit of account , first when its value was linked to a basket of currencies and then as the IMF denominated its growing balance of payments financing in terms of the SDR . |
| 4 | and erm whatever you may need a stock and that and put sliced potatoes in it and some carrots and then on the top I 've put sliced potatoes and left them on top of the casserole , well later on when I came home I just took the lid off and stuck in the top of the oven instead |
| 5 | Into the dungeons and then onto the Fidchell board , ’ said Caspar , tucking his chins into his neck and looking solemn . |
| 6 | I looked at the buttons next to the fruit stall because what I usually do I go and get the fruit and vegetables , if Jim 's on the right shift he takes them home , otherwise I buy them while it 's quieter , the man keeps them for me , I go straight across the leisure centre to soft clay cos it 's only open on Wednesdays and then on the way back one of them walks |
| 7 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 8 | In India at the same time Subhas Chandra Bose collaborated first with the Germans and then with the Japanese against the British Raj . |
| 9 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 10 | They walked around the graveyard for a short time , looking at the graves and then at the papers . |
| 11 | It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said |
| 12 | I saved up for us to have a holiday , I booked a caravan and paid the coach fares and then on the morning we were due to go he said , " I 'm not going without a penny in my pocket , I ca n't , I ca n't . " |
| 13 | It became Lescar only in the eleventh century , after having been devastated , like other sites in these desirable and prosperous pre-Pyrenean regions , first by the Moors and then by the Vikings . |
| 14 | In this extract as a whole , we can trace speaker B's attempt to contribute to what she thinks they 're about , by first offering some remarks on telephones and then on the father , but gradually reducing her comments to the type of contentless noises described by Duncan ( 1973 ) as back channels . |
| 15 | have a read of things and then on the basis of what your informants tell you then you can sort of focus it a bit more on erm tt you know the stuff that er erm you know the stuff that comes out in the literature that 's particularly |
| 16 | She watched him fight his way across the room to hang up the coats and then to the bar . |
| 17 | It was first of all made by the Council 's planning consultants and then by the Planning Department set up under Local Government reorganisation , a department intended in part to oversee the Council 's housing policy and headed by a former employee of the Council 's erstwhile planning consultants . |
| 18 | A curved arrow tells you to knit first to the left to place a loop in the empty needles and then to the right to knit all the stitches . |
| 19 | These are the last three characters and then into the extension , the they 're probably going to be W K one . |
| 20 | The man jumped to his feet , he ran to the trees and then to the edge of the clearing as if uncertain . |
| 21 | A spokesman for Brixham coastguard said : ‘ It is very dangerous because people have to scramble down the cliffs and then onto the boat and then they have to get off carrying whatever they have nicked . |
| 22 | Even the revolution was unreal — ‘ By agreeing to go first with the Panthers and then with the Palestinians , playing my role as a dreamer inside a dream , was n't I just one more factor of unreality inside both movements ? ’ ( p. 149 ) . |
| 23 | But by the end of the sixties , the US boom , associated first with Keynesian measures and then with the Vietnam war , was seriously threatening US price stability . |
| 24 | He made a powerful intervention claiming that we must know where we are before we can take decisions , or we shall be paying twice — once in respect of the negotiations and then for the GATT round . |
| 25 | Marriage remained very much an institution whereby property was transferred from one family to another — just as Aquitaine was transferred first to the Capetians and then to the Angevins . |
| 26 | The ore mixed with waste to such an extent that it could not be improved by hand was mixed with other low grade stuff and barrowed to the buckers whose job it was to reduce it to walnut size for delivery to Cornish roll-crushers and then to the stamps . |
| 27 | The judge looked at his papers and then at the jury . |
| 28 | Halema seemed satisfied with my answer and the talk turned to the lives of such spirits and then to the djinn . |
| 29 | In late 1990 the failure first of the rains and then of the grain harvest across the Sahel in Africa [ see pp. 37845 ; 37907-08 ; 37945-46 ; 38090 ] prompted renewed questions as to whether this drought was linked to global warming . |