Example sentences of "and then [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wheat ear , in celebration perhaps , flew up and then descended in a slow ‘ butterfly ’ display flight . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Eleanor glanced from side to side and then said in a low voice , ‘ It 's all right … what I told you about . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Shall I wait and then put in er would it be better for me to wait and then put in a big lump sum ? |
| 6 | Similarly , ox tongues were cooked in ‘ the kitchens ’ at Blackfriars , glazed hot , packed into glass jars with jelly , vacuum sealed with a rubber ring and a lid with a metal clip , and then placed in a cold store to set . |
| 7 | He had been urged by his doctor to escape the English winter and at the end of the year he went once more to South Africa for a ten-week holiday , sailing to Durban and then proceeding in a leisurely fashion to Cape Town . |
| 8 | The tall boy washed , cleaned his teeth , fought bravely with his comb and then dressed in a faded Hawaiian shirt and his summer suit . |
| 9 | Ruth covered his face and mouth with hot kisses as the fire , for a defiant instant , raged and then cooled in a delicious aftermath of cleansing , spring-water tranquillity . |
| 10 | Giving milk seems funny ; it makes me laugh and then cry in a stoned , sleepy , dribbly way . |
| 11 | If a car is unlawfully taken and then returned in a damaged state , it seems absolutely right that the person or persons responsible for taking it should be assumed to be responsible for causing the damage unless they can prove the contrary . |
| 12 | Deems was silent , hanging his head and then asking in a subdued voice , ‘ What will you do with me ? |
| 13 | Julia stopped and then added in a quick toneless voice , ‘ The actual facts you already know . |
| 14 | The INSET project depended on the videos being viewed and then analyzed in a constructive way . |
| 15 | She watched him dive , slicing into the water like a knife , and then continue in a powerful crawl which took him towards the centre of the lake . |
| 16 | And it hu go And it was there and it was left all night , and next day erm the man came back again and he cut it down the back with a big saw , and divided it up and then it was taken to the house where it was er up and then salted in a big barrel . |
| 17 | Authentic selfhood is denied and then reconstituted in a perverse , parodic form — and then perhaps denied again , transformed from other to same and then back to a ( ditferent ) other . |
| 18 | These moistened globules should be dried on blotting paper and then put in a sealed bottle , and labelled 0/1 . |
| 19 | Cut off the base if they have started to rot and then store in a dry place for next year . |
| 20 | He studied her curiously and then spoke in a slow , thoughtful way . |