Example sentences of "[coord] then [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Female American jacanas may mate with up to four males at a time , sometimes within a few minutes , and then lay eggs in each male 's nest . |
| 2 | Just like a vaulter 's carbon fibre pole , FUSION conserves and then re-distributes energy — for stunning propulsion effect . |
| 3 | Jim sat down by the fire in Albert 's old chair and then reversed direction and got up again in one amazing movement . |
| 4 | Stand-in Ipswich keeper Clive Baker , 33 , produced five outstanding saves , while ’ Jason Dozzell fired his fifth goal of the season and then criticized Forest 's powder puff tactics . |
| 5 | He offered the umbrella to him and then followed suit , both were presently arranged , expectant and a little flushed , now standing on the far side . |
| 6 | Huy watched him retreat and then followed Taheb and Nephthys , finding them talking softly at the gate . |
| 7 | In 1981 , Namur , based in Belgium , established an office in the UK , and then followed PanFinancial , AIU , London Bridge Finance , and , more recently , Sun Alliance , Alastair Malcolm Associates , Infocheck Credit Indemnity and various managed policies . |
| 8 | He ordered her downstairs , threatened to kill her year-old baby if she did not obey and then demanded money , which she gave him . |
| 9 | Now let Clare stir it for a bit and then let Amy have a turn , but do n't slop it every where , or else you wo n't have a . |
| 10 | ‘ So why did you let her rush out of the restaurant and then let Steve follow ? |
| 11 | No one is pressured into buying ; I give my advice and then let people make their own choice . |
| 12 | But we can do better : we can set ourselves targets and then let readers know if we reach them . |
| 13 | He says this because it seems pointless for the sun to have done all this work , and then let war spoil everything and killing off the sun 's children . |
| 14 | ( In practice , it may be best to choose the four settings J first , and then let J' be any point between them . ) |
| 15 | Even the earls present hailed this as an excellent plan , and Fraser was there and then appointed Deputy Warden of the Marches . |
| 16 | He gained a lot of brownie points , for example , when the company announced its record interim losses of £45.1m and then revealed plans to sell off the majority of is leisure division . |
| 17 | When a new issue of bonds is made , the Bank of England will set a minimum price somewhat below the £100 face value and then invite tenders for these bonds above or at the minimum price . |
| 18 | Problems were encountered when personnel officials — generally lacking in senior and especially Board status — were being asked to advertise for , interview , help select and then appoint executives to positions considerably higher than those they held themselves . |
| 19 | supervises change over of free-choice activities and then monitors maths group and two language groups ; |
| 20 | Particularly in the case of partners , the one doing the caring may sometimes feel considerable resentment at the changes in the relationship and the demands made , and then suffer guilt because of this . |
| 21 | I 'm not sure newspapers should do more than this — inform and then reflect public opinion . |
| 22 | It provides tools for applications design from the initial concept , to the editing stage , debugging , simulation and then code generation . |
| 23 | Hoe and then mulch beds , either covering the entire surface or in a radius of 2ft around plants if material is scarce . |
| 24 | An inclined , self-opening and counterbalanced trapdoor closed after the kibble was pulled through and then formed part of the hopper feed chute . |
| 25 | But such men were totally unwilling to embark on a diplomatic career by doing humdrum routine work or studying documents , and then rising step by slow step through a hierarchy of ranks . |
| 26 | In view of this one might consider presenting language as lexical units , both as single words and as complex packages , and then creating contexts which constrain the gradual elaboration of the first , the gradual analysis of the second . |
| 27 | During the film the ‘ workers ’ demands for increased wages are refused and then follow riots , battles with militia , and eventually industrial peace is restored through the efforts of a young engineer who wins his employer 's confidence and the love of the employer 's daughter' . |
| 28 | Those who advocated it argued that it was of no use to abolish selection at 11 + , in the name of justice and fairness , and then reintroduce selection a few months later , by streaming children once at school . |
| 29 | Dictates writing to adult and then copies adult 's model |
| 30 | If you have been wrong , acknowledge it and then get things right — that is much better than pursuing ultimate follies like the poll tax , ’ he said . |