Example sentences of "and then [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drama comes from separating the tooth germ of a mouse embryo from the overlying sheet and then recombining it with the cell sheet enclosing the limb , but which would normally form skin . |
| 2 | When the burning heat in his body had at last broken , she had concentrated on his arm , washing the wound constantly by setting a bowl outside to catch the clean rainwater and then replacing it with the pail , changing the two receptacles again and again . |
| 3 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 4 | So do you want to take e each object out one at a time and then put it on the table in the categories so you 've got one pile of bones . |
| 5 | ‘ Another man-witch , who was sentenced to the galleys for life , said that he had such a pity for the horses which the postillion galloped along the road that he did something to prevent it , which was that he took vervain and said over it the Pater Noster five times and the Ave Maria five times , and then put it on the road so that the horses should cease to run . ’ |
| 6 | And then put it on the stove and stew it ! |
| 7 | You do , in practice , see a lot of advertisements which appear as if someone has written a strategy and then put it in the advertisement as it stood . |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't have to take the dishes out of the dishwasher and put them in the dish rack and then take the cutlery out of its little plastic box and then put it in the cutlery drawer making sure that the spoons go in one compartment and the knives in another compartment and the forks in another compartment except there are always forks in the spoons compartment and knives in the forks compartment when you get there so it 's hopeless it 's always too late to get things right it 's a total frost honestly is life you are a lot better off dead in my opinion . |
| 9 | When you lift the wheelchair into the car , you should fold it so that it is sideways in front of you , with the handles to one side and clipped up ; then lean over the chair to grasp the cross-bar under the seat ; lift the chair up , step back with one leg , lever the wheelchair towards you , over your thighs , and then slide it into the boot , wheels first . |
| 10 | Her father tapped the ash off his cigarette into his cupped hand and then blew it into the air . |
| 11 | It is a trick that might just save the life of the bird if a cat has caught it and then placed it on the ground for a moment before starting to pluck it . |
| 12 | In the UK , however , there is every encouragement to agriculturally improve land and then stock it to the maximum , and for farmers to acquire more land and increase the size of their units because no upper limit exists for HLCA payments per farm unit ( subject to not reaching the maximum stocking density overall ) . |
| 13 | In other words , they created a self-image and then sold it to the greater powers of western Europe ; and whatever their reaction , be it incredulous , admiring or contemptuous , these powers now found it impossible to ignore the Scots ' insistent demands that they should be noticed . |
| 14 | I put a big crust on the hook , dip it for a couple of seconds at the edge of the river to give it casting weight , and then swing it into the current . |
| 15 | The board is steered away from the wind by initially inclining the rig forwards and then leaning it over the windward side of the board . |
| 16 | It is possible to culture the early embryo and then return it to the mother 's uterus where it will develop normally . |
| 17 | Watch how they move right up to a certain morsel and pick it up with their lips , or how they move no closer than several inches to another and then draw it to the edge of their lips with a mighty suck . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | and then take it off the chair . |
| 20 | Further , when you 've inspected the directory you have to remember the name and then re-type it for the Load command . |
| 21 | them particular chemicals and then submit it to the , the insurance company , what them 's the only chemicals you use , and the company said this and that . |
| 22 | When children are encouraged to thread beads on a lace to match a particular pattern and then repeat it to the end of the lace , there is development of the idea of sequence . |
| 23 | For example , I might assemble code into RAM block and then copy it to the unit plugged in at location . |
| 24 | What you do is to select the block of text that you wish to manipulate , ie you use the pointer tool and not the text tool , and then copy it to the Scrapbook via the Clipboard . |
| 25 | Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He could borrow enough to buy an asset in the cash market , hold on to it for T years ( earning any income but bearing any carrying costs including interest on borrowed funds involved ) , and then sell it in the cash market and also repay the loan with interest . |
| 28 | Shoot the TNT so it moves across , flame it and then shoot it into the flames . |
| 29 | He drew one out , bit off its tip and then lit it with the licking tongue of his petrol lighter . |
| 30 | This is a rather strange piece of behaviour , which gave rise in the l9th century to the belief that the female cuckoo swallowed her egg after laying it and then regurgitated it into the host 's nest . |