Example sentences of "and then [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 2 | A wheat ear , in celebration perhaps , flew up and then descended in a slow ‘ butterfly ’ display flight . |
| 3 | Derive expressions for the torque needed to hold 0 constant under the following conditions : ( i ) when the plates are connected to a source of constant voltage V ; ( ii ) after the plates have been rotated to their position of maximum capacitance , charged to voltage V , disconnected from the supply and then rotated to a new position . |
| 4 | ‘ The same lamb you put a rope round the neck of and then chased into the German minefield ? ’ |
| 5 | Took up some good positions , had one half chance which the keeper did well to hold , and then chased after a long ball , outrun 2 defenders , hit it first time from 25 yards or so — straight into the bottom right corner , well the keeper got a slight touch which lifted it a bit higher but you get the idea . |
| 6 | Before long , however , the euphoria and hope turned to terror and tyranny , and first under the Committee of Public Safety and the Triumvirate , and then led by the Corsican dictator Napoleon , France became for a time , a threat to every nation in Europe . |
| 7 | Zak 's intended scene of investigation into Angelica 's murder had been upstaged by the reality of the Lorrimores ' car and then aborted by the long stop at Thunder Bay . |
| 8 | He leaned forward as if he meant to kiss her and then said in a low voice , ‘ I 'm going to give you the name of a first-rate lawyer . ’ |
| 9 | Eleanor glanced from side to side and then said in a low voice , ‘ It 's all right … what I told you about . ’ |
| 10 | Unlike many conference proceedings , which present a mere snapshot of the contributions made , this material has been selected , expanded and rounded to form a whole , and then presented in a uniform format . |
| 11 | Researchers have recently discovered small regions of genetic material in animal cells that can become detached from the chromosomes , enjoy an independent existence for a while , and then re-integrate at a different chromosomal location . |
| 12 | Bowers 's team imagine that near a carbon arc , the less stable isomers grow to become larger than or and then collapse to the stable structures as heat from the arc anneals them . |
| 13 | In 1978 America 's federal bankruptcy code was rewritten in order to make it easier to file for bankruptcy , to reorganise under the protection of chapter 11 of the code , and then to re-emerge as a going concern even under the same management . |
| 14 | 2 ) Positioning the mouse cursor on the text line and using the backspace or delete keys to delete the numbers and then typing in the new value . |
| 15 | But as she moved instinctively beneath him he buried his face in her hair with a groan and then plunged into the very flower of her being . |
| 16 | These are first entered into a data file and then displayed on the relevant function diagram , and a graph is generated by straight lining between these points . |
| 17 | Julia smiled at him and then looked across the round table at Anthony as though to persuade him to get Comfort to behave better , but either he misunderstood her signals or did not care enough , for he sat , watching his sister , laughing at her jokes and joining in her reminiscences . |
| 18 | She hung on to the towelling and the scissors , and then looked around the dismal room to find a clean surface on which she could put them . |
| 19 | The rest of us watched them disappear among the trees and then continued on the broader path , climbing slowly . |
| 20 | She watched him along the road and then ran in the opposite direction , singing a high , careless tune , breaking off now and again to laugh rather wildly , so that several people in the street turned to stare at her , surprised . |
| 21 | Currently in a six month appointment a house officer may be attached to one team of consultants for three months and then change to a second team . |
| 22 | Most start with a welt and then change to the main stitch and there may even be some shaping to do . |
| 23 | Davis from Richmond road in Oxford knocked her unconscious , threw her cycle into the river and then posed as a good Samaritan , pretending to comfort her , before attacking her again and trying to strangle her . |
| 24 | To find it , use Beta and Alpha to show the way to 9 Sagittæ and then turn to a little cluster of stars which is actually in Vulpecula ; U Sagittæ lies beyond . |
| 25 | To start , we consider the first ( highest priority ) objective and try to find a feasible solution ( x 1 , … , x n ) satisfying and , if our search is successful , we impose this inequality as an extra constraint and then turn to the second objective . |
| 26 | If we had an index at the front of the book we could scan the index for the name and then turn to the appropriate page . |
| 27 | : It was decided to investigate each parameter in succession , i.e. to investigate one , find the optimum , set this as the default , and then turn to the next parameter . |
| 28 | Calls a low-level procedure getframe in turn for each half of the image and then waits through a specified decay period , the exposure . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly , therefore , import penetration increased from the mid 1960s onwards and then moved at an alarming rate in the early 1970s . |
| 30 | They both glanced behind them and then moved into the coloured shadows of the necromancer 's storeroom . |