Example sentences of "then [verb] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Ah ! ’ she says , and then goes over to the other side of the shop . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was about to apologize , remembered the microphone , then moved round to the other side of the desk and sat down . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The party then moved off down the Spanish Steps to the Hotel della Villa where the main dinner and presentations took place . |
| 13 | He waved to show he was all right , then swam back to the floating machine , still laughing . |
| 14 | Your vessel then heads on to the wonderful wine town of Rüdesheim , arriving around 6.30pm . |
| 15 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 16 | ‘ Water Babies ’ featured Linda Frew and June Milligan feeding our sea-lions , and starred the new baby sea-lion ; and then moved on to the young penguins next door . |
| 17 | Ace checked his in turn and then moved on to the other team members . |
| 18 | Finch finished the movement and then came back to the other room , thinking of how much time he had spent with Henry and Betty over the years . |
| 19 | Last time round they went to south east Asia , trekked in Nepal as far as the Everest base camp , saw Thailand and China then came back on the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 20 | At a press conference in Phoenix , Balestre initially hinted at a conciliatory line in the dispute between CART and FISA , but then came out with the stern suspension threat , which also encompassed Indycar engine makers Cosworth and Ilmor . |
| 21 | He paused , then came out with the inevitable suggestion that she found so irritating . |
| 22 | After a print run of , say 100 A4 sheets , the printed sheets are then turned over on the long axis , and the same print is made on the reverse . |
| 23 | The method used to achieve this could be called a filtering technique for , by analogy with the process of filtering as used in the chemistry laboratory , a particular part of a mixture ( the edges or boundaries ) was isolated and then added back to the original image to give Figure 5.14 . |
| 24 | Luke shouted up to Anna that he would take Flora in , and then walk on to the sixth-form college . |
| 25 | I went to change money , then strolled down to the small port to talk to the boat owners about getting to Amantani . |
| 26 | The first operation on the lathe is to mark the inside and outside diameters of the foot , then cut in to the correct depths , measured from the template , using a parting tool . |
| 27 | If the dramatic frame is an enquiry or an investigation the children might well be creating still images , which they can then bring back to the whole group . |
| 28 | The metric system was then built up on the decimal system , which you already have been studying . |
| 29 | Having walked the Gorges of Kakouetta and then rested up in the benign landscape of Sainte-Engrâce , you may feel you have the legs back to inspect another of the spectacular limestone phenomena of the Upper Soule . |
| 30 | Look amused , she suspected as they crunched up the crumbling steps , peered through a railing , and then retreated back to the small quay . |