Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] and then " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I just knew where he was prepared to stand and then could just sort of do the things round about . |
| 2 | After the model had been repaired , Watt discovered that it would only work for a few stroked and then stop . |
| 3 | All around us were mountains ; they were often half-smothered in cloud , but in the evenings this lifted and then the crests loomed over us , rain-washed , clear-cut and splendid . |
| 4 | If it does need sanding , get this done and then give the scrub and wash treatment . |
| 5 | ‘ Every match , bar one which we won , has ended in a 2– 2 draw and then been settled on penalties . |
| 6 | In Act One he first of all introduces himself and his job and what this entails and then he goes on to set the scene by describing the general vicinity and its history . |
| 7 | I know someone who had that done and then later on they had their voice box taken out , cos he had cancer of the throat , ooh , |
| 8 | ( 4.1 ) unc Otherwise it runs its first argument until that terminates and then runs the rest in sequence . |
| 9 | got all these done and then bump . |
| 10 | but the trigonometry ones you have to know what they turn into I got some things , a couple of them I was getting stuck on what I supposed to put and then I actually go too far on some 'em , I , I |
| 11 | On opening any packet etc , I can see from the index card how long it is likely to last and then record it on the appropriate page of the notebook . |
| 12 | The trick is to be fully aware of the range of conditions one is likely to encounter and then to select the clothes which offer the greatest versatility and which will cope with the harshest of these conditions . |
| 13 | something else that could be quite actually misleading might sleep , be very sleepy , difficult to wake , so if you 've got the baby and you think your baby 's due for a feed and it did n't take very much at the last feed , you ca n't wake it up you should n't think oh well I 'll have to wait for another four hours , beginning to get worried so if the baby 's difficult to wake if it 's difficult to feed not sucking very well if the baby 's cold to touch and then there 's something which is very , very misleading , these babies can have bright red cheeks and bright red hands and feet and if you look at them you think oh they must be warm because they 're red |
| 14 | Soldiers , right , stab her and they 're all dying and then you see the head like it 's just all dressed up in these things and it 's Arnie underneath it and he takes the head off |
| 15 | Because just sort of go for it and it 's all done and then |
| 16 | Jackie had had that all done and then I would have been in for my cup of tea . |
| 17 | It 's all mellow and then it just goes ah ! |
| 18 | And some of it 's gone up alright , but he put a couple of strips up last night and it all bubbled and then he I heard him this morning shwooh ! |
| 19 | These are all noted and then everyone carries out their forfeits . |
| 20 | At first all refused and then Miss Knox agreed on condition her two friends would follow . |
| 21 | And when the sun appeared they all died and then the people who were to be the people of Amantani came from other islands , from peninsulas in the south … ’ |
| 22 | There were a lot of very poor men also in a number of these trades who were not originally covered by the legislation , and that 's where the erm the developments have , have come from since then , the dynamic of the policy , because the argument over whether it should be only for women rebounded on them , and people said , ‘ No , it should n't ’ , so for a while the legislation was all scrapped and then they started again , and now the Americans have much more comprehensive laws than we do . |
| 23 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 24 | Erm there 's another one that a lot of came up with one or two had heard a few before and they all groaned and then accused you of making them all up ! |
| 25 | all labelled and then press the red button again to get it going . |
| 26 | lost something and I ca n't , I ca n't find it and I 'm looking and I 'm , and ee , and er , a bit of a noise or anything I 'm looking backwards is coming and then I realize he 's not there any more to come and then other days I just feel like I 'm dangling in the air and can see the , the ground and I ca n't touch it with my feet , just somewhere right , right out , it 's not real , not real you know and then you go , you get back to with a bump and know that it 's real and then it just feels left , nothing else , you ca n't help yourself in any other way . |
| 27 | Speakers who were unaware of or unable to select and then transmit these differentiating features were clearly going to be ineffective communicators . |
| 28 | Disapproval would at first enrage and then devastate him , and these warning messages apparently arrived visually . |
| 29 | She is a little playful , first accepting and then rejecting his advances , whilst he suggests there are stronger feelings behind his efforts to steal a kiss . |
| 30 | The ‘ two prongs of nationalism ’ , he suggests , ‘ tend to be a proletariat and an intelligentsia ’ : the former is first uprooted and then gradually incorporated in a new national community ; the latter provides new cultural definitions of group membership which are widely diffused with the development of mass literacy and a national educational system which industrialization itself makes necessary . |