Example sentences of "then [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the invariant set is attracting , there is the possibility that the unstable manifold of the origin , which first strikes the return plane at R or L and which then wanders chaotically around the strange attractor forever , may eventually strike AD and then tend back towards the origin . |
| 2 | To disappear without so much as a phone call or a postcard for three years and then breeze back down the path from the town and across the bridge-rubber handlebars just clearing the sides and no more — carrying somebody else 's baby or babies and expecting to be housed , fed , nursed and delivered by my father was a little presumptuous . |
| 3 | HOUSE prices will stabilise and then pick up towards the end of the year , say estate agents and property analysts . |
| 4 | It would roll around on the carpet , then leap on to the piano and then on to the pianist 's lap , where it would start licking the hands that played the magic notes . |
| 5 | Start your arrangement around rim and then build up towards the middle to hide the foam |
| 6 | Dulé was to slip into the sea , then , binding the container of burning pitch to his head with a deep cushioning of reeds in between to prevent him getting burned , he would swim to the ship , gouge a hole in the hull with his knife and , taking dry tinder from a companion swimming alongside him , light spills from the fire and pass them through the walls of the ship , then slip back under the cover of the mangroves and lie in wait for the panic . |
| 7 | I get Des to untie his hands and then slip back inside the car . |
| 8 | They used to pop up in the morning when it was a bit cooler and damper and then flatten out in the afternoon when the temperature got up . |
| 9 | On longer courses participants may be asked to talk to one of their own students and then report back to the group on his/her pattern of language use . |
| 10 | I 'd grab my jacket , and parcel , then nip round to the customer with it — by foot ( shank 's pony ) . |
| 11 | Lower the slab in place , then tap down with the handle of a club hammer . |
| 12 | Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face . |
| 13 | You then catch up with the field on the Isle of Dogs at the 17.5 mile-mark . |
| 14 | Return to the castle and its second courtyard , then walk through into the final and greatest courtyard , past the limestone blocks of the Romanesque White Tower . |
| 15 | I would make myself some tea , I decided as I packed away my papers , then walk over to the post office to make my call to Crispin . |
| 16 | My husband was mad on golf , and he used to go down into the park and send golf balls onto the lawn and then walk back through the rose garden which I put in the wrong place . |
| 17 | Then walk out to the deck you helped to build , |
| 18 | Oliver was close behind as she ran towards the pedlar , then cut off to the side . |
| 19 | The Kates actually drop their torpedoes and then climb up over the ship superstructures as the torpedoes hit home . |
| 20 | There , he was able to lift himself on to his crutch again and then climb out of the stockade . |
| 21 | If you 're not gon na sit straight then hold on to the computer ! |
| 22 | By the way , It looks like they 've improved the ticket line a bit , there is now a queueing system which you get held on , so you now get through after about an hour rather than 3 , and then hold on in the queue for the other two hours : - ) |
| 23 | The dormice are weighed and then put back into the nest . |
| 24 | Where they do not exist it can be presumed that either the genuine silver-gilt coronet was used at the funeral and then put back into the strongroom after the funeral , or they have disintegrated . |
| 25 | There were plenty of Garda around , and there ought to have been plenty more , as I saw a group of wild children steal chocolates from a shop and then run off down the road . |
| 26 | So gi , they 'll probably go down to Munich and then drop down on the motorway from Munich |
| 27 | The carpet on the stairs is thick and deep and I make no noise as I climb to the top , then pad along towards the master bedroom , tripping one more sensor . |
| 28 | Then meet BACK TO THE PLANET , agit-popping , space-dub squatters who are not — honestly ! — crusties . |
| 29 | When approached by a predatory fish , these little creatures contract their bodies and expand their papillae which they then wave about in the water . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know if Bobby will break into the Great Britain team for the World Cup final against Australia in October , but he should make it for the next series and then hang on to the job . |