Example sentences of "then [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first the message is received in full and is then given out to the person ; in the second the message is received and is simultaneously translated into the second language . |
| 2 | Later that day , the news began to spread that the Headmistress had recovered from her fainting-fit and had then marched out of the school building tight-lipped and white in the face . |
| 3 | When the cat was successful it was rewarded with food and then placed back inside the box . |
| 4 | In the case of practitioners , who are now included in the disputes procedure , that 's , that is then referred up to the Family Health Service Authority . |
| 5 | The hemiplegic leg is then lifted back to the floor , the trouser leg is pulled a little further up the thigh , and anchored in place by the patient crossing his unaffected leg over it . |
| 6 | The normal formula is ‘ it seemed good to the Council and People ’ , indicating that the decree had been prepared for the Assembly ( ‘ the people ’ ) by the Council , and was then voted on by the Assembly . |
| 7 | They were checked again then carried on over the drawbridge and through the gate . |
| 8 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 9 | A high-pass filter was used to isolate the local ( high-frequency ) variation which was then added back to the image so that the local component was effectively doubled , thus amplifying or exaggerating its importance . |
| 10 | He enveloped her mouth in one last , languid taking , then rolled on to the pillow beside her . |
| 11 | This is always agreed to and the Bill is then reported back to the House . |
| 12 | They are cooled by water taken from the river Yenisey , which is then discharged back into the river , in contravention of recently-passed environmental legislation . |
| 13 | The interview then moved on to the consideration of the Head of Department 's departmental work , but kept drifting back to his ambition for wider experience . |
| 14 | He dusted it a little , to marvel better , and then moved on to the glass coffin . |
| 15 | She wrenched open the door behind her , ran through it , slammed it shut behind her , then dashed out of the house . |
| 16 | The water then passes to a coil in the indirect solar cylinder , and is then pumped back to the bottom of the solar panel . |
| 17 | It will be deducted from the loss and payment then made up to the policy limit . |
| 18 | The water is then fed out to the waterfall . |
| 19 | Interactionists made much of how such variations could lead to a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ : if the public ( informed by the media of rises in the criminal statistics ) believes crime to be on the increase and more of a problem they may be more sensitive to it , report more to the police who will then record more and therefore produce a further rise in recorded crime , which is then fed back to the public by the media , and so on ( see Wilkins , 1964 ; and Young , 1971 ) . |
| 20 | It is then written up as the business strategy or plan together with a detailed plan for implementation . |
| 21 | The bones are first modified and altered to conform to the skeletal dimensions of the body , which is then built up from the inside outwards using organic substitute flesh . |
| 22 | The action sledge , a wooden frame , is then pushed in under the action , lifting it to the right height under the strings . |
| 23 | The prey is then drawn up to the mouth and swallowed whole . |
| 24 | This collective picture is then reflected back to the sufferer with the recommendation that he or she finds out whether his or her contemporaries in treatment observe the same picture . |
| 25 | She grunted assent , and he filled the coffee percolator , set it on the stove and then rooted around in the refrigerator for the ketchup , while he wondered how to approach the subject of his going to New York . |
| 26 | The first part of the right-hand side of ( 6.38 ) is the present value of dividends during the supernormal growth stage , while the second part is the present value of the share in year T ( at the end of the supernormal growth phase and assuming constant growth thereafter ) , which is then discounted back to the present . |
| 27 | Whatever the mitigating circumstances — the heat , effects of jetlag and an injury to Mark Appleson — Scotland did not make a very good fist of it on Saturday when they lost their pool match to Western Samoa and were then tumbled out of the plate 38-5 by New Zealand . |
| 28 | This involves recording one line of music ( the ‘ backing ’ or ‘ rhythm ’ track ) , which is then played back to the musician while a second line is added . |
| 29 | The disgraced soldier was then dragged back into the glare of publicity last November when the Attorney General successfully challenged her sentence as ‘ unduly lenient ’ . |
| 30 | Agnes pushed Jessie towards the basin , hissing , ‘ Stay there ! ’ then hurried out of the room to meet her mother in the corridor , the while calling , ‘ I 'm coming . |