Example sentences of "[coord] then [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In an adjournment debate in the Commons earlier this month , Mr Hood claimed that Mr Muncie 's ‘ luck ran out ’ for his favourite method of investigation — deciding who was guilty and then gathering evidence to prove it . |
| 3 | There is not point , for instance , in having accurate interpretation and then serving pork chops to elderly Muslim patients . |
| 4 | It is n't giving away much of the story to say that Miranda at first sees her mother 's behaviour — alternately doing everything she can to please her husband and then screaming rage at him for letting her down — as a clear example of women 's oppression . |
| 5 | And then getting hold of the camera and the machine at the same time seemed to be a problem . |
| 6 | Tens of thousands of Haitians responded to news of the coup attempt by taking to the streets where , armed with machetes and clubs , they paralysed the capital by building and then setting fire to barricades . |
| 7 | It involved identifying common concerns of teachers and then producing stimulus materials to initiate and focus discussion and trigger groups working on them to devise their own plans of action . |
| 8 | You can move beyond the efficiencies of erm of the erm managerial systems or the existing systems by erm creating , you could do coll collectives and then using state support to erm bring in erm more capital |
| 9 | In some cases this takes place when two cells join up and exchange genes before breaking apart and then undergoing cell division some time later . |
| 10 | No , I thought she were giving them a pound and then taking change off them , she were getting change off them or summat were n't she . |
| 11 | Someone once described this as sorting out the knots in the knitting and then taking pride in wearing the jumper . |
| 12 | The second principle : ‘ the system for quality is prevention ’ involves considering where errors could occur and then taking action to prevent them . |
| 13 | Erm Romans verse and verse four you notice this text is taken from verse twelve , rejoice in the hope and then persevering prayer , but if you go into verse four , what it 's speaking about there , but just as we have in one body many , members , but the members do not all have the same function and then in six to eight he goes on to describe that we all have gifts do n't we differing according to the undeserved kindness given to us , whether er so forth and so faith , ministry , erm teaching , exhorting , all these different gifts , though sometimes if a particular brother or sister does n't have a particular gift and we think well you know that 's a bit hard going I ca n't seem to listen to them , that 's an area perhaps where we could erm be quivering could n't we , or complaining , especially about assignments , you might get speakers that come here from other congregations , and some are better than others are n't they ? |
| 14 | Many do not recognise the irony of liking the band because of their ordinariness and then venerating Gedge by asking him to sign the cover of a single . |
| 15 | Whereas the agencies tend to be agencies employing people directly and then marking sense . |
| 16 | If we have ( say ) two circuits then the forces upon each other may be calculated by determining first the magnetic field over all space and then applying eqn ( 3.90 ) . |
| 17 | The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx . |
| 18 | Therapists and groups of clients berate individuals for their past behaviour and values , pushing them to the point of breakdown and then offering relief in the form of acceptance by the new therapeutic ‘ family ’ , which in turn means volunteer work or financial contribution to the vertically integrated therapy empire . |
| 19 | They then progressed to half-pass ; coming up the centre line and then performing half-pass towards E. Jennie told Katharine to keep her inside leg on the girth , as the horse should bend in the direction of the movement , as opposed to leg-yielding where the horse keeps in a straight line . |
| 20 | Kelly saved United minutes before the interval stopping an Anderton shot and then foiling defender Colin Calderwood . |
| 21 | Asclepiodatus can , therefore , be seen as beginning his career in the service of Guntram , for whom he acted as referendary , transferring to Childebert in 593 , and then becoming patricius of Provence under Childebert 's sons . |
| 22 | In Suleyman 's time he returned to the medrese stream , teaching as far as the Sahn and then becoming kadi successively in Aleppo , Damascus and Istanbul , in retirement from which last post he died in 963/1555–6 . |
| 23 | He was a director of Macmillan for ten years , first running their secondary schools division and then becoming Group Electronic Publishing Director . |
| 24 | Hence when Duncan II [ q.v. ] , with the help of William II [ q.v. ] , expelled Donald after six months in 1094 , Duncan was unable to retain the throne , being forced to send his French knights packing , and then falling victim when Donald returned , aided , it seems , by Edmund , second son of Malcolm III and Margaret . |
| 25 | It was a spectator sport where young men would show their courage by standing in the path of the maddened bull and then leaping side at the last moment . |
| 26 | By charting in fixed and variable costs , and then showing revenue , it is possible to see the point at which total revenue equates with total costs ie the break-even point . |
| 27 | In places I put the colour on in a wash , either by crayoning onto the design and then adding water , or by taking the paint off the crayon direct with a brush . |
| 28 | ‘ the application of tariff principles requires the sentencer to find the sentence which most accurately reflects the offender 's culpability , a process which involves relating the gravity of the offence to the established pattern of sentences for offences of that kind , and then making allowance for such mitigating factors as may be present which tend to reduce the offender 's culpability . |
| 29 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 30 | and then eliminating thought . |