Example sentences of "then [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dip a cotton bud into cuticle-remover and go round each cuticle , then push back with a rubber-tipped hoofstick . |
| 2 | They come close to enjoining all scientists to refuse to engage in military research but then back off at the last moment . |
| 3 | Luke shouted up to Anna that he would take Flora in , and then walk on to the sixth-form college . |
| 4 | Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms . |
| 5 | It is easy to mark around a dinner plate and then cut out with a sharp knife . |
| 6 | The first operation on the lathe is to mark the inside and outside diameters of the foot , then cut in to the correct depths , measured from the template , using a parting tool . |
| 7 | I was asked to clean down with blanket wash and then run over with a clean polishing rag . |
| 8 | At the agreed hour I reported to the Endoscopy Unit of the London Clinic , was shown into a small room , told to undress and put on a blue shift , then lie down on a mobile bed . |
| 9 | If you are in the south of the country over the weekend of the 23–25 May , then pop along to the English Riviera Centre in Torquay . |
| 10 | I want ( sort of ) Blackburn to catch Scum , with the pressure they may break ( as they have done previously ) and then drop back into the chasing pack . |
| 11 | If you 've only seen a De Lorean car in the Back to the Future films then drop in at the old plant in Dunmurry on Saturday afternoon ( 3.30 ) where the dream machine was produced . |
| 12 | A declaration of French hostility to the candidature was drawn up , which , on the next day , was approved by the full Council of Ministers , and was then read out in the Legislative Body . |
| 13 | Using a wash-down hose , rinse out the oven and then finish off to a fine sparkle with a quick wipe around . |
| 14 | The Catalan nationalists want , in particular , to be able to collect their own taxes and then pass on to the central government a share based on the services it provides . |
| 15 | Happily , the warring parties then draw back from the unthinkable , negotiate a satisfactory peace and agree to serious talks on arms reduction . |
| 16 | As far as I know , there are only two still in existence : one , the U.505 , was captured by an American task force towards the end of the war , towed up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes to Chicago where a special cradle was built for it to cross the Lake Shore Drive and then set up in a little house of its own in the Museum of Science and Industry . |
| 17 | He then set out in a violent storm and heavy snow for Fort William , where he hoped to take the oath in the presence of the local commander of government troops . |
| 18 | There is a coincidence with Osbern 's story , and it may be that Swegen was present in England when tribute was paid in 1012 , and then set off for the Irish Sea ( thus repeating the possible pattern of 994 – 5 ) only to be shipwrecked , perhaps off the Welsh coast . |
| 19 | She extracted him determinedly and set him down on his feet , whereupon he wobbled perilously backwards and forwards , then set off at a tremendous pace across the courtyard , with his mother following , calling apologies back to Caroline as she disappeared from view . |
| 20 | Within ten minutes the shark was visible but it then set off on a strong deep dive taking 100 yards of line despite a heavy drag setting . |
| 21 | First he dispossessed Hendrie in full flight and then set off on a spectacular 50-yard solo run down the right . |
| 22 | He examined the gallery , then set off along the left-hand corridor where the men 's bedrooms were . |
| 23 | The gang told the woman they were heading towards Widnes , and they then set off in a blue car . |
| 24 | She was to find out that something would startle her like this and then quieten down to an apparent normality , only to find that she had really been shaken up into accepting an entirely unnatural situation and adapting it to the flow of her life . |
| 25 | Eventually it was just a dark dot way up in the shy , almost unrecognisable except for the distinctive flight pattern : it would glide round in a circle , then soar off in a straight line , helped along by the wind , and finally resume its circular flight again . |
| 26 | These L4 then emerge on to the mucosal surface , migrate to the colon , develop to the adult stage . |
| 27 | One possibility is to choose two or three at a time , as above , and then go on to a few others . |
| 28 | So on a , c just to summarize and , and then go on to the fourteen great achievements . |
| 29 | At the close of a moot the judge or judges declare which counsel or side performed best ; he , she or they then go on to the next round . |
| 30 | If there is no response to either Stage 1 or Stage 2 , then go on to the anti- Candida diet , described below . |