Example sentences of "then [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 2 | But Will caught a fever and then rode home through the cold spring rain . |
| 3 | It is known that volatile organic compounds dissolved in groundwater will release molecules into the vapour phase at the water-table , and these can then migrate upwards through the unsaturated zone . |
| 4 | The chairman , Gubby Allen , asked Washbrook to leave the room , then argued fiercely with the new young captain , Peter May . |
| 5 | Thus the script that Sidney Gilliatt , among others , had worked on , for A Yank at Oxford ( 1937 ) was taken back to Hollywood and then passed around to the resident heavyweights , including Ben Hecht , who would n't touch it , Herman Mankiewicz and Scott Fitzgerald . |
| 6 | Every sentence begins ‘ The whole point is this , ’ proceeds doggedly towards the target , then veers off at the last moment and explodes harmlessly in the undergrowth . |
| 7 | Later , Mr Friel had refused his friend 's invitation to escort him home , then met up with the accused again by chance and been assaulted . |
| 8 | The score then goes on to the last musical number in Act 3 , ‘ A thousand thousand ways ’ , which is a song repeated by the chorus . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah ! ’ she says , and then goes over to the other side of the shop . |
| 10 | The design was then filled out with the smaller red roses , ‘ Yesterday ’ and ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ , and finally to complete any gaps I used some pink ‘ Ballerina ’ and creamy pink ‘ Penelope ’ roses . |
| 11 | It is then placed on to the inked drum of a duplicating machine ( Fig. 6.9 ) and the ink is then forced through the cuts in the stencil and the copy is produced on absorbent paper . |
| 12 | They come close to enjoining all scientists to refuse to engage in military research but then back off at the last moment . |
| 13 | She 's the kind of person who 'd probably forget to eat or sleep for days while she was painting , then eat ravenously for the next week to make up , if she could . |
| 14 | If they were grubby , you were told to put your hand out and you had a cut with cane , a punishment which was then meted out to the other hand , followed by the order — ‘ Go and wash ’ . |
| 15 | The lift halted at the twelfth floor for the girls to get out , then whispered on towards the fifteenth . |
| 16 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 17 | The remainder deflected downwards into the rear pressurised compartment , went straight through the conduit carrying the cables to the lower rear turret , then carried on into the rear gunner 's position , perforating the hatch and embedding itself in the lagging on the armour plating at the rear of the position . |
| 18 | So take your time to learn the phrasing , start off slowly and then build gradually to the written tempo in each case . |
| 19 | His scream echoed madly inside the tunnel as he fell was slammed against the brickwork then bounced back against the speeding train , his body pulped by the impact . |
| 20 | " I just do n't know why you turn me on at all , " Slater said , then peered closely at the other young man 's face and said pointedly , " Are you listening to me , Park ? " |
| 21 | But to be capable of jumping in formation in the dark with full equipment and a bundle of supplies and then landing together in the right place takes some doing . |
| 22 | They left in the early morning , swishing through the wet grass on the valley floor , then climbing steeply into the thick of the mist and cloud . |
| 23 | Crossing the worse danger zones was like some horrible game of ‘ Last Across ’ ; they told you that forty cuistots had got across safely since the last casualty ; you waited for the explosion , then staggered frantically over the open space , knowing that if you were No. 41 the next shell probably had your name on it . |
| 24 | If you split a fortnight between the Algarve and exploration , and are flying back from Faro , then you could make the Lisbon area your limit , staying in the city or in Cascais , the breezy little port along the coast , heading out to ravishing Sintra , the royal summer retreat which is 15 miles north , then driving back via the walled Moorish town of Évora . |
| 25 | Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back . |
| 26 | But the ratio would then fall sharply in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century . |
| 27 | He was about to apologize , remembered the microphone , then moved round to the other side of the desk and sat down . |
| 28 | They then moved away from the main circuit , onto a piece of rough ground for the ‘ Formula Finesse Auto Test ’ . |
| 29 | We then moved on to the spiralling property prices in Oxford , the purchase price of the Parsons ' house compared to its current estimated value , the solicitor 's recent attic conversion , and so on and so forth . |
| 30 | The Lasius fuliginosus in the experiment started by walking between the two trails , and then moved across to the stronger trail in such a way as to balance the odour strengths sensed by their two antennae ( Figure 6.5 ) . |