Example sentences of "then [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was she having a sly laugh at his expense , talking nonsense and then cornering him with a sudden question ? |
| 2 | In ways more amenable to women 's visual pleasure , off-beat films which then made it into the mainstream distribution circuit such as Lianna ( Nelson/Renzi ) , Desert Hearts , I 've Heard the Mermaids Singing ( Rozema ) and Percy Adlon 's work with Marianne Sagebrecht in Baghdad Café and Sugar Baby have achieved a degree of success in changing the dynamics of female objectification and sexual fantasy in an entertainment setting . |
| 3 | All the forceful tact Aunt Tossie possessed was needed to convince Dada that only champagne , the best champagne , would be appropriate to the occasion , and then to compel him into the stony depths of the cellars to root with Twomey along the half-empty bins where forgotten treasures spoiled . |
| 4 | He scratched under his bag wig , knocking it askew , then straightened it in a fussy way , all the time fidgeting in his seat as if the bugs were biting there too . |
| 5 | However if a chick is first imprinted on a yellow flashing light , it will then prefer it to a red one . |
| 6 | He remembered how Izzy Kleiber had fought and kicked right to the end — until the moment when they lifted him up , then lowered him over the outer wall of the harbour , where the greedy river licked its oily lips and waited , invisible in the darkness below … . |
| 7 | If you if you need to do something about it , then er in order to secure that order for a hundred , then sell them at the old price . |
| 8 | For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon . |
| 9 | I then sold it to the genuine buyer , paid you back … ’ |
| 10 | Then display it in the nice rosewood frame above the mantelpiece in that new home you 're now too poor to furnish ? |
| 11 | What we 're actually doing in terms of the product is we 're actually widening the franchise erm I do n't like to use words going up market that suggests that we 're leaving our core customers behind , we will we will add any product that is complimentary to our core kitchens but er we 'll still be the main stance of the product in these two stores for instance , we 're going to introduce a house wear department it is something that we 've been experimenting with before we 're going to erm use the opportunity to widen the franchise on appliances we 're going to erm use the an experiment on erm floorings to match work tops , those kind of developments just to test to see whether the customer reaction is as good as we hoped it would be so that we can then introduce it in the main chain |
| 12 | Its journalists then re-founded it as an independent paper [ see p. 38372 ] . |
| 13 | Rinse the lentils in a sieve under running water , then place them in a large saucepan with all the remaining ingredients except the salt . |
| 14 | Spread out the seaweed into the shape in which it is to be pressed while still in the water , then slowly lift it out of the basin , keeping it flat , let it drip for a while and then place it on a waterproof surface . |
| 15 | The combative veteran gave his side the lead on the hour , and then helped them to a flattering 3-0 win . |
| 16 | I would then pack them into a neat , brown-paper parcel , stick on one of our PPC labels , with customer 's name and address clearly visible , write out an invoice — then presto ! |
| 17 | It stood about patiently until a crust dropped , then approached it with a sideways hopping motion and began to tear it . |
| 18 | He ran across the gangplank as enthusiastically as though he sought votes for his father 's election campaign , then approached us with an outstretched hand and a voice full of bright greetings . |
| 19 | Instead of this he left her to think of a solution and then rejected it as an inappropriate translation . |
| 20 | The muted notes which are found at the beginning of bar 7 should be produced by damping the strings at the seventh position ( approx ) and then picking them with a gentle up-stroke using your r/hand index finger . |
| 21 | Dzo bells lulled us to sleep and then woke us to a clear and sunny morning . |
| 22 | She-She then parked me in the aromatic cubicle . |
| 23 | The Terrier man then kills it with a small pistol . |
| 24 | Teachers retain control of registration — keeping the important element of one-to-one contact — and perform it in the usual time , but instead of noting absences on paper , they feed the information directly onto a portable electronic register which then passes it to the central computer . |
| 25 | It may be poached in water or stock , but I prefer to cook it in the microwave , then coat it with the black butter . |
| 26 | If the helicopter is moving , to stop it you must apply an opposite control movement and then remove it at the precise moment that the helicopter stops . |
| 27 | Roy looked much more solid — the kind of man who would sit silently through what she had to say , listen to Purdy 's probing , then corner her with a single , well-informed comment . |
| 28 | ( Puts it with large shells of the same type , then replaces it with the tiny ones . ) |
| 29 | She gave her name and address , and P.C. Clifford then drove her to the big office block in Upper Thames Street , just round the corner . |
| 30 | he bound her hands and raped her … he then drove her to the nearby village of Olney … where she was raped again … |