Example sentences of "[coord] then [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Walk up the path behind the hotel and then turn left by the fence before crossing Allt Beithe and continuing along the edge of ‘ Loch a' Bhaid Luachraich . |
| 32 | But Will caught a fever and then rode home through the cold spring rain . |
| 33 | Melissa stared at it and then glanced again round the little kitchen , trying to picture Angy 's last moments . |
| 34 | If any pieces of gold leaf have been chipped off to reveal the white base , there are various shades of gilt waxes which can be rubbed on with a soft cloth and then buffed up to a fine lustre . |
| 35 | He dusted it a little , to marvel better , and then moved on to the glass coffin . |
| 36 | ‘ Water Babies ’ featured Linda Frew and June Milligan feeding our sea-lions , and starred the new baby sea-lion ; and then moved on to the young penguins next door . |
| 37 | Ace checked his in turn and then moved on to the other team members . |
| 38 | Note the Heading and then refer back to the localiser . |
| 39 | Alexei gestured at the still-quivering sword , and then strode on into the house . |
| 40 | Briefly , their ‘ epidemic ’ model proposes that , from a stable endemic baseline , the number of new cases of heroin use ( incidence ) in a community increases rapidly for four years before peaking at ten times the level of initial endemic incidence in year five , and then dropping sharply to the previous endemic level during years six and seven ( see Figure 3.2 ) . |
| 41 | As she laughed , his eyes travelled briefly over her features , a smile in them , and then brushed lightly over the frame of copper that had struck him with so devastating an effect . |
| 42 | There is the metal-ring type muzzle , which is screwed into place via a pin passed across the inside of a ferret 's mouth behind its big teeth and then threaded back into the ring . |
| 43 | Sometimes the rug is simply washed in water and then left out in the sun to dry , but many weaving groups now add chemicals to the water in order both to alter the tonal intensity of the colours and to give the pile a gloss or matt sheen . |
| 44 | The digested sludge is dried in open pits and then put back into the pigs ' feed in a proportion of one part to 10 . |
| 45 | Where they do not exist it can be presumed that either the genuine silver-gilt coronet was used at the funeral and then put back into the strongroom after the funeral , or they have disintegrated . |
| 46 | The dormice are weighed and then put back into the nest . |
| 47 | As the text of the gospels was dissected , there came indeed to appear layers or strata ; some bits looked earlier than others ; the documents were made up out of a weaving of stories and sayings circulating in the earliest Church and then put together by a single hand or more than one hand . |
| 48 | It was nothing legible — just a pencil smudge , as if something had been written there and then rubbed out with a dirty eraser . |
| 49 | Mickey Morris , having left school with a grade 1 CSE , ‘ managed to scrape four ‘ O ’ levels at college' and then progressed admirably through the internal examination system of the Department of Health and Social Security ; but not before he had come to terms with what he called ‘ a home truth ’ . |
| 50 | The problem of interpretation is compounded in considering MPs occupation and interests ; it was not unusual for a young man from a landed family to be called to the Bar ( but not to practice ) , to serve in the armed forces ( but not to become a professional soldier ) , and then to settle down to a political career with several directorships . |
| 51 | Q plans to put out the final part of his novel on video with the narration over Super 8 footage shot by Don Letts , before issuing a DEADMEAT ‘ remix ’ mass-market edition , and then moving on to a new book to be called Supermodel and concerned with , well , supermodels . |
| 52 | Luciana Mottola Colban discussed the plans with Danièle Giraudy , one of the minds behind the Pompidou Centre , where she worked in an educational role for eight years , before becoming director of the Musée Picasso at Antibes , and then moving on to the Musée des Arts Decoratifs as Director in 1991 . |
| 53 | The current development of CAD procedures has so far been directed towards providing a complete geometric description of an object initially , and then moving on to the generation of manufacturing instructions ( see Figure 1.8 ) . |
| 54 | Ignore personal attacks and criticism by thanking the opposition for their feedback and then moving on with the positive aspects of your case . |
| 55 | Originally it was planned to bring the tax in in two stages starting with an eight per cent rise and then moving up to the full seventeen and a half . |
| 56 | He probably worked on all his victims this way — softening them up , earning their trust and then moving in for the kill . |
| 57 | This effect is achieved by giving a small , focused example of a very emotional and personal experience and then moving out onto a much larger scale and asking more general questions about humanity . |
| 58 | Other analyses were also undertaken ; for example , similar posts throughout the organization were grouped together and then slotted appropriately into the overall order . |
| 59 | For example , holding the breath during the execution of a move and then exhaling sharply at the moment of contact can concentrate power and increase speed . |
| 60 | Fingers entwined in the dark hair of the head still at her breasts , Maria cried out softly , shifting her position instinctively as she felt his hand circle her hip and then slide urgently to the softness at the top of her thighs and accept the invitation implicit in her movement . |