Example sentences of "[coord] then [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would make me look at pictures and then reproduce them with coloured pencils , or else ask me to rotate a figure mentally a certain number of degrees around a given perpendicular before attempting to redraw it . |
| 2 | And then try one over that . |
| 3 | I want you to do the same for twenty four and you wo n't get it all on one line there 'll be a lot of them and then try it for thirty six and when you 're really happy with twenty four when you 're happy with twelve and you can write all those out quite happily without looking at this try twenty four see if you know see if threes 'll go fives 'll go and sevens and everything else . |
| 4 | And then try it with thirty six . |
| 5 | Okay so try it with twelve first of all and then try it with twenty four |
| 6 | That was all part of the job — dig the dirt and then turn it into pure gold . |
| 7 | Why not list your own holiday requirements and then tick them off one by one as you discover for yourself what Ten Bel has to offer . |
| 8 | The patient might tell you what if , if the casualty was still able to talk , they might be able to give you the history of how they became like they were , received a blow , got kicked , fell onto something hard , okay and so on and so on , they might be able to tell you themselves , give some indication , right , you would remove and loosen off all tight clothing , okay , loosen off the clothing for them and then treat them for shock and then refer them to urgent medical attention , nil by mouth on any account , okay ? |
| 9 | and then put them on five minutes defrost . |
| 10 | We write it out in longhand , each of the 700 or so entries on individual sheets of A4 paper and then put them into alphabetical order . ’ |
| 11 | pick out a lot of those and then put them in another part of the garden . |
| 12 | But why should speakers or writers actually plan to say something in one way and then put it in other words in order to ensure the intended interpretation ? |
| 13 | Oh I just boiled the ends a bit and erm and then put it in deep water . |
| 14 | By taking advantage of this facility , we can draw one pattern in a basic design option ( such as Fair Isle as we have done ) and then use it for many different types of knitting . |
| 15 | the school was able to save money on non-educational things like waste collection , and then use it for educational items ; and |
| 16 | The program puts up words one at a time , in transcription , and the user 's task is to read the word and then input it in normal spelling . |
| 17 | ‘ It was disappointing to play so well at times and then lose it in that one spell . |
| 18 | In addition , Piaget ( 1926 ) carried out an observational study of children 's spontaneous speech , and a study in which children had to listen to a spoken explanation and then relay it to another person . |
| 19 | A senior clerk should clear the machines and then reset them to zero at various times during the day . |
| 20 | In our one-day workshop , stencil expert Helen Morris , who runs a successful stencil loan service and shop , will teach you how to cut stencils and then apply them to various materials such as walls , fabrics and furniture , using stencil paint , spray paint and crayons . |
| 21 | We normally try and estimate the full year tax charge and then apply it to six months and we got it wrong . |
| 22 | Throw Enfield a question and he 'll bounce it around , knock off a few apt replies and then launch himself into one of the manic routines from the new show . |
| 23 | My own preference when using these elite units is to mass them in a body to provide the heaviest punch possible and then unleash them against one section of the enemy line with the hope that the breakthrough will start a general rout of the enemy force . |
| 24 | A deconstructive reading of this kind , then , will take the metaphysical , logocentric oppositions at work in a text , reverse them , and then question them in such a way as to ‘ neutralize ’ them . |
| 25 | Even more remarkably , they do not digest the nematocysts along with the rest of the sea anemone , but collect them in their stomachs and then pass them along narrow channels lined by motile hairs which move the contents of the channel in one direction only , and which lead from the stomach to tiny pouches situated near the periphery of the papillae . |
| 26 | erm , and to use a word that would be used in other areas , retraining goes on , amongst the judiciary or do they just get to this pinnacle , and then hold it against all comers , until they choose to retire , I mean , in any other , er , job where you have a peculiar expertise , like that , you would be expected to update yourself , to keep up with the trends , you would be sent away to conferences , and retraining courses . |
| 27 | Fujitsu and Hitachi have made no effort to leapfrog IBM by introducing entirely new machines , for this would defeat the plug-compatible strategy : to let IBM create the demand and then meet it at lower prices . |
| 28 | And then lead them with this to come with . |
| 29 | To overcome this waste , I sow several hundred extra brassicas in the greenhouse in March ( cabbage , red cabbage , brussels sprouts , cauliflower , and broccoli ) , bed them out at four-inch spacing in the vegetable garden in early May and then transplant them at two-foot intervals into the headlands after horse-hoeing in June . |
| 30 | Will the Minister release MOD votes to allow local authorities , in collaboration with the MOD , to bring empty housing owned by the local authorities and the MOD up to acceptable standards and then transfer it to local authority control for the express purpose of providing homes to ex-service personnel ? |