Example sentences of "and then [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like watching leaves floating on a swiftly flowing river ; every now and then one of the leaves would be arrested against a submerged rock while the great mass of them flowed by even faster on each side . |
| 2 | And he got up and then one of the girls said hi Greg dropped your johnnies . |
| 3 | Aye , she would get meals-on-wheels for her dinner and then one of the lasses would leave her summat for tea , sandwich |
| 4 | Presently she heard footsteps slipping on the wet grass , and then one of the doors groaned open . |
| 5 | A rather longer silence this time , and then one of the group says hesitantly , " We milk them . " |
| 6 | Yeah and then that by the time I get back about fourish |
| 7 | Depends what er this time of year about three and a half and then four in the winter . |
| 8 | This is the ratio of the intensity recorded with a polarizing element ( polaroid screen or half wave plate ) set , first parallel , and then perpendicular to the plane of polarization of the incident radiation . |
| 9 | Little by little , the French initiative paid off , as their armies ‘ reoccupied ’ first those parts ceded by treaty and then much of the duchy of Aquitaine itself . |
| 10 | In on the fourteenth of July of nineteen ninety three the defendant took out a summons with a view to having all the outstanding matters resolved and er this summons came before erm deputy master on the twelfth of August nineteen ninety three and he gave various directions including an enquiry in relation to how the surgery premises er ought to be dealt with as in court in the winding up of the partnership and that matter went before Mr Justice long in December and he decided those issues and gave directions in relation to and how the premises are to be sold , the effect of the directions very vaguely , is that the premises have to be offered to the partners , if only one of the partners shows any interest then there is provision in the relevant deed for ascertaining the price and this is put to that partner at that price , if more than one partner wishes to buy the premises then there is provision for a fixing of a minimum figure and then each of the partners has to put in sealed offers er and the premises will be sold to the partner , the former partner who put in the last offer , that broadly speaking I think is the substance of Mr Justice order . |
| 11 | He wants me , she thought with panic , and then hot on the heels of that thought came another ; he wants me because he 's spent the afternoon and evening with the woman he loves but ca n't have , and so he wants to release some of that frustration on me . |
| 12 | The swords clashed once in a parry , and then both of the offworlders were circling one another cautiously . |
| 13 | The route continues for a short way beside the beck , crossing it and turning right to head first slightly north-east and then north-west until a small beck is crossed , and then another by the Cortina Bridge — named after a Ford Cortina crashed here in one of the Lombard RAC rallies . |
| 14 | In practice , this means that users will be able , on a call-by-call basis , to choose their bandwidth , the supplementary services and management requirements they have , and then pick-and-mix from the facilities provided by both British Telecom and third party operators on the network — all through their familiar ISDN interface . |
| 15 | The next day , push the fins into the marzipan , starting at the head with the smaller triangles , getting larger over the back of the body , and then smaller towards the tip of the tail . |
| 16 | and then most of the rest of the time you 're fine . |
| 17 | The entire production including scenery , props and wardrobe would be transported from town to town and then most of the children recruited locally . |
| 18 | SEVEN months ago , Gloucestershire 's Jamaican fast bowler Courtney Walsh — along with Jeffrey Dujon , Viv Richards and Gordon Greenidge — was omitted from West Indies ' one-day squad to tour Pakistan and Australia and then later for the World Cup . |
| 19 | Whole blood cyclosporin trough levels were measured weekly for two months and then monthly for the remainder of the study using high performance liquid chromatography . |
| 20 | Renal function was followed by measuring the serum creatinine at entry , weekly for one month , and then monthly for the remainder of the study . |