Example sentences of "[adj] and then [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut the tomatoes in half and then make faces on them with pieces of cheese , olive or egg . |
| 2 | That one small doubt became a huge question mark two days later when , before the opening home game with Arsenal , Knighton took the field in a United playing strip ( having refused the previous day to be photographed holding a United shirt ) and juggled , headed and kicked a football in front of a at first incredulous and then delighted Stretford End . |
| 3 | Oliver poured orange juice , drank half of it in the kitchen while looking very thoughtful and then carried Rain 's to the bedroom . |
| 4 | With reference to real , external time , by day 9 of the experiment he was acting like a night-worker , even though he always go up at what he called 0800 and then ate breakfast . |
| 5 | The following morning I worked as usual and then asked Kathleen if I could have a couple of days off . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | FABULOUS 208 : Started life as Fabulous and then became house mag of Radio Luxembourg . |
| 8 | However , after a short period in 1732 at the Dissenting Academy in Findern , Derbyshire , he became a justices ' clerk in Sheffield until 1737 and then commenced work as a carrier between Sheffield and Macclesfield . |
| 9 | That is why activating and then overturning schemata is a device often used in jokes , puzzles , and literature . |
| 10 | Follow this , keeping edge of wood on left and take next left fork which runs up on to a shoulder where another path joins from left and then ascends shoulder steeply ( f ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Educated at the City of London School , he saw active service in France in 1918 and then read history at Merton College , Oxford , obtaining a first class in modern history in 1922 , and a D.Phil. in 1924 with a thesis on The Last Florentine Republic ( published in 1925 ) . |
| 13 | Whinfield served as an assistant director of chemical research in the Ministry of Supply during World War II and then joined ICI in 1947 , first in its plastics division and then in the fibres division , which brought him worldwide travel , including a visit to the USSR in 1961 as a guest of the USSR government . |
| 14 | Bath have already put pay to two Central South sides ; they demolished Oxford 82:9 and then hit Hereford for 48 points . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After sunset , your song wore a tune of ascetic grey and then came night . |
| 17 | Before being dumped she had been beaten , stripped and then had petrol poured over her body and was set on fire . |
| 18 | In the following definitions Key 1/Key 2 means ‘ press Key 1 and then press Key 2 ’ . |
| 19 | During the S the CNES budget increased substantially — largely due to state support for both the national and European ( ESA ) programmes : the CNES budget ( in real terms ) trebled in the years 1963–8 and then stayed level during most of the S ; in the S it rose steadily . |
| 20 | ‘ Everyone horribly drunk and then catching taxis in the early hours , it was a blur , a glorious , happy blur . ’ |
| 21 | In the past , Government has interfered in industry , with disastrous results , by attempting to alter economic trends ; increasing and then curtailing expansion , increasing interest rates , taxation , credit , consumer demand and the like . |
| 22 | The rain started , a few heavy drops at first and then hissing spears of water that struck her sharply on the head , on her neck , pricking through the thin stuff of her dress . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ We will introduce Intel-compatible parts first and then offer versions that feature proprietary architectural enhancements , ’ the company says . |
| 25 | ‘ We will introduce Intel-compatible parts first and then offer versions that feature proprietary architectural enhancements , ’ the company says . |
| 26 | The new NME was typified by James Brown , a youthful and obstreperous Yorkshire dynamo whose tenure as live and then features ed , was both fiery and fierily productive . |
| 27 | At the time of writing Auckland have won an away challenge against Marlborough 55–3 and then beaten Otago 21–16 at Eden Park . |
| 28 | He had Mark Waugh caught on 60 and then trapped Damien Martyn ( 15 ) and Greg Matthews ( 0 ) leg before to finish the day with 4-46 from 23 overs . |
| 29 | Morris got another in the middle of those two and then to finish things off scrum-half laurie Beck and full back Tim Smith scored a try apiece to make it 42-15 … good weekend for them … good weekend for coach keith Richardson |
| 30 | With West Ham committed to attack , Shearer was left unmarked to head just wide and then tested Miklosko with a fierce shot to the near post . |