Example sentences of "and then [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , you could create a small design as though it were in a vase or a natural spray , and then surround it with an archway of flowers This would then have no mount , but just a plainish frame , to avoid the overall effect seeming too cluttered . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Build a raft and then get it across a lake ? |
| 4 | and , and play he said , and then try it for a , but he said you 've got to do it a few times |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That God created the world and then left it to a forsaken humanity , trying to address Him in an echoless void — this idea is n't new . |
| 7 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 8 | Yeah , get it downloaded on disk and then put it on a P C downstairs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | And then put it on the stove and stew it ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | If desktop publishing is considered as a tool then it is important , as with any tool , to select both the correct one for the job and then use it in a sensible manner . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I put it in a basket whatever I 'd got and then dress it with a ‘ blower ’ or dressing machine ( if I could borrow one ) . |
| 17 | Her father tapped the ash off his cigarette into his cupped hand and then blew it into the air . |
| 18 | Let the egg dry and then cover it with a layer of varnish to make sure all the edges stay firmly stuck down . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Local Gary Austin landed a 3 lb 2 oz 8 drm flattie during a Flounder League match and then topped it with a 3 lb 10 oz specimen while pleasure fishing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is possible to culture the early embryo and then return it to the mother 's uterus where it will develop normally . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Just like the CEGB and ‘ proof ’ of a link between pollution and damage to lakes , the Commission put up one condition after another as a ‘ test ’ of whether Britain 's trees were showing decline , and then replaced it with a new argument if it was satisfied . |
| 29 | We 'd have to jazz it up a little , get a few prominent vocalists to sing over the coolant 's bubble , a few name producers to chip the chilly vibration down to its component cubes and then restack it into a great wall of freezing sound . |
| 30 | and then take it off the chair . |