Example sentences of "and then [verb] [prep] the [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 | ‘ The same lamb you put a rope round the neck of and then chased into the German minefield ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The rest of us watched them disappear among the trees and then continued on the broader path , climbing slowly . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Most start with a welt and then change to the main stitch and there may even be some shaping to do . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | : 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 . |
| 17 | They both glanced behind them and then moved into the coloured shadows of the necromancer 's storeroom . |
| 18 | This method of narration allows the reader to take part in the initial experience , to share in the inquiry into its meaning from the start , and then to join in the subsequent dialogue with which Wordsworth engages ‘ the Mind out there ’ ( or the ‘ Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe ’ ) in his attempt to find a fuller explanation . |
| 19 | We unpacked our bags , and then relaxed until the next morning . |
| 20 | Jayhawk and Defiant were the first , both entered in the January trials and then retired as the newer America and Kanza were flown in from their builders in Rhode Island . |
| 21 | Discontent simmered and then exploded in the nationalist protests against Japanese rule in 1919 . |
| 22 | After pressing , the pockets were tied and then stored in the ground-floor storage area , which was only required as a space in which the pockets were hung and for stoking the fires in the kilns . |
| 23 | Any reader who wishes to pursue the concepts further and obtain a more complete understanding should first explore the main textbooks on the subject , ie by Peter Checkland and Brian Wilson , and then delve into the many others that examine systems ideas , some of which are given in the list of references . |
| 24 | From these sources , it is possible quite quickly to gain an idea of how parkland has changed over the years — usually expanding in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , and then contracting during the twentieth . |
| 25 | The resulting courses were spread over eighteen three-quarter-hour or twelve one-hour periods ; they began with an introductory review of the college library , its purpose , stock , arrangement and services , including standard reference books , and then proceeded through the detailed study of a specialist literature , in a field closely integrated with the students ' own subject courses . |
| 26 | The initial setting up could be carried out by them and then circularised to the nearest branches some time before September in order for the most capable branch to make an offer for the franchise . |
| 27 | The proposal , unveiled in April , was initially investigated by the Office of Fair Trading and then referred to the MMC three months later for a more detailed probe . |
| 28 | It will haul a special train over the S & C Settle and Carlisle and then retire to the National Railway Museum in York . |
| 29 | Four women then dressed and trimmed the body — i.e. shaved the face and washed the hair — prior to its being wrapped in 8¾ yards of cerecloth and then placed in the anthropoid lead case . |
| 30 | When a variable is used for inputting , the effect is the same as that of inputting to a completely new variable , and then assigning to the original one . |