Example sentences of "and then [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the the time involved in driving over and then wandering around the city is . |
| 2 | Her hands ceased their uncertain fluttering , dropping to her lap as she sat back and then tugging at the hem of her skirt until it was at a more modest level . |
| 3 | Dividing eqn ( 8.1 ) by and then multiplying by the square of the planet 's mass gives . |
| 4 | She flicked back through a number of the loose-leaf pages , quickly at first and then slowing as the date that she was seeking came closer . |
| 5 | He had made his millions by first cornering the estate-agency business in the gaudy resort , and then expanding throughout the north-west . |
| 6 | This is mainly what we are concerned with here , as it these areas that can cause us problems when designing and then transferring to the console . |
| 7 | UI president Peter Cunningham believes the new ABI could mean up to 75% commonality between the systems for the software programmer , initially on the client side and then moving to the server . |
| 8 | Deciding what the board needs to know about its school and community , and then discussing with the headteacher and school staff how best to become informed . |
| 9 | One committed suicide by repeatedly smashing its rostrum against the concrete wall of the harbour , and then swimming into the net which held it captive . |
| 10 | They like nothing more than wallowing in a cool mud bath in the mornings when the sun is not too high and then resting in the shade of an acacia tree during the scorching heat which follows . |
| 11 | The fish was of course a familiar ecclesiastical emblem , originating with the cryptogram of the early disciples , and then elaborating on the analogy of ‘ fishers of men ’ . |
| 12 | Burdened by the fear that some ‘ performance ’ , of which they feel incapable , is expected , and therefore that their ‘ manliness ’ is threatened , they may get so miserable and anxious that they realise their worst fears , by becoming unable to have an erection and then hiding behind the idea that ‘ I 'm an old man now , so what can I expect ? ’ |
| 13 | St Louis would be a nearly two-hour flight , and then getting to the university and making polite conversation … |
| 14 | One way of allocating groups quickly and randomly , ensuring a good mix , is to ask the children to sit in a circle , allowing them to sit where they want , and then counting round the circle , giving each child a number — one to eight , then starting again . |
| 15 | When she looked up , Daak 's headless body was still stumbling forward , collapsing slowly and then crashing to the floor like a felled tree . |
| 16 | We thought about going down on the saturday and staying at Great Yarmouth and then driving to the match . |
| 17 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 18 | The way to it enters the obvious breach between Beinn Eighe and Liathach , reached from the top of the pass , a rough path climbing alongside the descending stream and then curving around the side of Sail Mhor , an outlier of Beinn Eighe , to the lip of the corrie and a sudden revelation of mural precipices on a grand scale . |
| 19 | This apparently involves sending patients an eyesight test card and then running through the test itself over the telephone . |
| 20 | The children in groups of two , three or four , tackled an experiment of mixing hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide and then testing for the result and boiling the outcome to see what was left . |
| 21 | ‘ Psychologists now think that America has never recovered from the traumatic blow of introducing baseball into the Los Angeles Olympics and then losing in the final to Japan . ’ |
| 22 | In this process of consultation , the emphasis moves from deciding how to spend available resources to identifying needs , establishing priorities and then deciding on the budget " ( Nightingale 1990 : 110 ) . |
| 23 | As Foucault and others have argued , the construction and then privileging of the author as a text 's origins is a product of editorial desire , matched with assumptions that establishing origins is a way of clarifying a text 's destination . |
| 24 | It ended in a choking splutter as Sir Thomas , following Nancy 's tragic end , collapsed to his knees , clutching at and dragging over the lectern , and then falling to the floor where he lay as insensible as Nancy herself . |
| 25 | His big blond head kept coming up , shaking once and then bobbing through the water as he struck out for the machine . |
| 26 | The meadow began to mushroom with tents and huts and the street theatre erupted into an explosion of living history , the performers flinging themselves to the ground and then leaping into the air as and when the idea occurred and making funny faces all the while . |
| 27 | and , and then following through the suggestion I 've put to him , erm , erm on one scenario at least to , it could even you , erm perfectly erm able to pursue your counterclaim |
| 28 | That 's that 's one thing , but is finding the tenth root of something and then raising to the power six , or raising something to the power six and then finding the sa the tenth root , is that the same as finding the fifth root and cubing it or cubing it and finding the fifth root . |
| 29 | She spent each afternoon in bed , coming down for dinner and then lying on the sofa afterwards . |
| 30 | I remembered getting out of my seat , putting on my jacket , wondering about trying to get something to eat , deciding I did n't feel hungry , glancing at the empty luggage rack , and then heading through the station and up the road . |