Example sentences of "and then [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er the Department 's consultants identified that that would n't be sufficient to cope with traffic flows on the M sixty two er and indeed suggested as as an option er that traffic a new a new route could be created er along from the M sixty five at , the A fifty six and A fifty nine to Skipton , er and then pointed a red arrow in the direction of the A fifty nine across to the A one . |
| 2 | In parliament , Lennox-Boyd restated his position on 11 May 1956 : ‘ If a general election is held Her Majesty 's Government will be ready to accept a motion calling for independence within the Commonwealth passed by a reasonable majority in a newly elected legislature and then to declare a firm date for this purpose . ’ |
| 3 | They are often expected to spend days on the march , even sleeping in the saddle , and then fight a pitched battle . |
| 4 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 5 | Best summed up by secretary , Jim Crewe ACIB : ‘ The day started fairly easily with our having to negotiate a minefield and then climb a greasy pole — everyday activities for today 's modern banker ! |
| 6 | She tried to imagine herself doing it and then heaved a small sigh . |
| 7 | Gerd gulps down the food , and then coughs a few times , each time a little louder , and exhibiting a little more distress . |
| 8 | The TRANSAID team will write the outline documents and then get a professional writer to produce the final manual . |
| 9 | We found a crew for the ship at the port , and then had a good voyage home . |
| 10 | She did n't respond to allopathic painkillers , developed vomiting and diarrhoea and then had a good response to Arsenicum Album LM4 but having recovered from the acute was experiencing some return of anxiety symptoms . |
| 11 | In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with . |
| 12 | Ramprakash , for reasons best known to himself , treated a Cambridge batsman , Marcus Wight , to a stream of verbal abuse and then had a stand-up row with his own captain , John Emburey , which allegedly continued later . |
| 13 | She was treated with dialysis and then had a renal transplant , jumping ahead of patients on the waiting list . |
| 14 | He had previously had three vessel coronary bypass grafts in 1977 and then had a myocardial infarction after cardiac catheterisation for unstable angina in April 1991 . |
| 15 | Thanks to this device many thousands of birds have been caught , weighed , measured and then had a lightweight metal ring clamped round one leg before being released in the hope that , when it is next caught ( or perhaps found dead ) , the number stamped on the ring will be seen and reported . |
| 16 | They rebelled against the Palladian sense of order and then led a classical revival which heralded the architecture of the beginning of the next century . |
| 17 | The best thing would probably be just to walk around to keep warm and then to snatch a little rest in a doorway somewhere if need be . |
| 18 | I used to have it changed , every Monday I used to empty the smokehouse , put that in the slaughterhouse to dry and then put a fresh lot in the smokehouse and start her off again with oak sawdust . |
| 19 | They attach themselves with their mouthparts and then release a digestive enzyme secretion which eats into the skin . |
| 20 | The early evolutionary stages of development of wings are still in question they may have developed from outgrowths of exoskeleton from the body that assisted gliding initially , and then acquired a propulsive function . |
| 21 | 3 Now estimate the length and height of one of the walls of the room in which you are sitting and then use a measuring tape to check its actual values . |
| 22 | You can grow plants with u/g filters , if you allow them to root well before turning the filter on , and then use a low turnover rate . |
| 23 | One possible answer to this question is that in practice firms may apply a rule-of-thumb pricing method and then use a trial-and-error technique over time to close in on the price and output combination which achieves the chosen objective . |
| 24 | The two brain regions are quite small — dissected out , each weighs no more than a couple of milligrams — and Andras invented a special plastic mould into which we could drop the brain , slice slabs out with a razor blade and then use a fine scalpel to cut round the regions , guiding the dissection under a microscope . |
| 25 | Three triplet quavers appear fairly early in the piece and then become a frequent feature , but of course these can be regarded as a diminution of cell b in its three-note form . |
| 26 | So you would n't have to spend a fortune on , on , on I mean it 's only a matter of most of it 's a matter of paint , and then hanging a few things up is n't it ? |
| 27 | He was also very fond of flowers , and as well as things such as marigolds , pansies , marguerites and wallflowers , he grew a rose one does n't see these days , which was very white when it first came out and then developed a lovely flush of pink . |
| 28 | Think in terms of putting a one in front of that and then moving a decimal point two places and it 's one point four five . |
| 29 | The freight forwarder stuffed the plaintiff 's goods as well as other shippers ' goods into one container , and then procured a single bill of lading in the forwarder 's name from the carrier . |
| 30 | If you fight on after sustaining a head injury and then receive a further blow to the head , the damage caused by the initial impact will be multiplied several times over ! |