Example sentences of "then [verb] it [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Select EDIT TEAM , and change COMPUTER ( top left of screen ) to your own name by placing the cursor over the first letter then typing it in on the keyboard . |
| 2 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 3 | Place the block oil-side down into some jeweller 's rouge powder , then rub it on to the mirror edge . |
| 4 | Simple — I take the dish over to the sink and wash it , then bring it back to the table . |
| 5 | Lee took Philippa 's hand from her face and held it to her mouth , then placed it down on the bedcover . |
| 6 | Slide it out onto a plate , then invert it back into the pan and cook the other side for about 5 minutes . |
| 7 | He reached into the drawer beneath the table and drew out the transparent template , then laid it down over the shaded area . |
| 8 | Lay a piece of masking tape at the centre point of the hearth , then line it up with the plumb bob |
| 9 | Cardiff watched him scan the wall , and then hold it up to the ceiling . |
| 10 | He sipped at his wine again , then put it down on the arm of his chair and , keeping a finger and thumb on the stem , twisted it one way , then the other . |
| 11 | I looked at it accusingly , then put it down in the cradle . |
| 12 | Maxwell examined the letter in silence , let the Consul General read it and then put it back into the Captain 's open hand . |
| 13 | Oswald has been chairman of the Darlington Brown Trout Angling Association for 38 years , and jokes : ‘ On the one hand I catch a fish then put it back into the water . |
| 14 | Think of the total quantity of change involved in going from wolf to Chihuahua , and then multiply it up by the number of walking paces between London and Baghdad . |
| 15 | If you are paid a weekly wage , then add it up to the monthly total and put that down and so on . |
| 16 | Countries such as Tanzania , Kenya , Zaire and Uganda have been badly hit , and governments have not helped by confiscating ivory and then selling it back into the market . |
| 17 | First , the Macintosh was designed as a graphical computer and so already possessed the necessary hardware to provide a typographically ‘ accurate ’ WYSIWYG display and then print it out onto the new LaserWriter printer . |
| 18 | Whereas I mean , , if you sort of give the criticism first and say the wrong area is that , and then finish it off with the praise , they know where they stand , and when you come up to them and say you 've done a superb job , they 're not just sitting back , thinking oh yes , what 's coming next . |
| 19 | She then hung it out in the outhouse for storage . |
| 20 | A wave caught the mast , lifting it high and then slamming it down on the cabin roof . |
| 21 | Doyle checked his forty-five magnum , then slotted it back into the holster on his back belt . |
| 22 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 23 | Breathe in from the diaphragm slowly through the chest to the mouth counting 1-2-3-4 then blow it back to the diaphragm with another 1-2-3-4 . |
| 24 | Industry will be carrying our costs and we will bring the research to a point from which they can then take it on to the market . ’ |
| 25 | He put the finger into his mouth , sucked at it and then waved it around in the air . |
| 26 | The theory is that the type of population mixing which took place on oil installations spread that agent among oil workers who then took it back to the areas in which they lived . |
| 27 | Haul it back up , then chuck it down on the deck |
| 28 | Because they told me that the assessment will be made by the Child Support Agency who would then pass it over to the Income Support Agency who would then take them off Income Support . |
| 29 | And if you 'd got a good suit , you 'd take that , then fetch it out for the weekend , so they 'd looked decent , and when you took it back on Monday and he said I 'll have to drop you on that , Ah , so you wo n't this week . |
| 30 | She picks up this blue skirt and holds it against her legs and then puts it back on the rail . |