Example sentences of "[conj] then [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ageist assumptions connecting old age with ill-health can often arise from the extreme social isolation and withdrawal experienced by many older people , the self-neglect that this can cause , and the illness that then arises from this neglect . |
| 2 | In that horrid state , the mind may be considered as a city without walls , open to every insult , and paying homage to every invader ; every idea that then starts with any force , becomes a reality ; and the reason , over fatigued with its former importunities , makes no head against the tyrannical invasion , but submits to it from mere imbecility . |
| 3 | From stile continue slightly downhill to lake , then follow right side of lake on clear path that then ascends past old slate quarries , at top of which is a dark pool just on right of path 6 . |
| 4 | Some of these are indirect ways of reducing speeds , but nowhere is the direct way used ie a change in the law to bring speed limits below 50 km/h , applied street by street or across a zone , delimited by signs , enforced by the police , publicised widely , and then supported by infrastructural measures to ensure compliance as well as by environmental enhancement to reinforce perception of the changing function of the street to one of pedestrian ownership . |
| 5 | Cracks in rendering should be raked out , cut back to sound material if necessary and then filled with new mortar . |
| 6 | Churchyards were lacking ; in some cities the poor were soon shovelled underground in common graves , dug to an initial depth of 30ft and then filled with rough coffins to within 2ft of the surface . |
| 7 | Samples were thawed , vortexed , and then centrigudes at 10000 g for one minute . |
| 8 | She slewed her eyes furtively from side to side and then said with awed relish : |
| 9 | Yeah we put twenty four hours and then coloured in half |
| 10 | West Europeans and Americans were arguing angrily about whether the Soviet Union was conspiratorially seeking to gain military advantage by negotiating away the West 's remaining tactical nuclear weapons and then stalling on conventional reductions . |
| 11 | Much to the consternation of the operators , Humphrey 's shabby figure would appear and then disappear into high-speed machinery . |
| 12 | Their own wounded could be attended to at the nearby village of Eckford , and then disappear into these their own Border hills . |
| 13 | Too often in communication we try to teach the other person our language and concepts and then communicate in this language . |
| 14 | and then reply to any points that are made by anybody else . |
| 15 | Apart from an interval for lunch , the meeting continued until 3.30 p.m. and then adjourned until 7.00 p.m. to allow representatives to report to their parties and organisations . |
| 16 | They start with one word , like ‘ Daddy ’ and then progress to two-word utterances like ‘ Daddy come ’ . |
| 17 | They shook hands and then embraced like old friends . |
| 18 | The other two players were both club men , Glenn Brill , a Silverdale forward with a brief North Harbour record , and Nigel Ward , a high-scoring loose forward with Silverdale and then Northcote in recent times , but with no real chance of becoming a regular North Harbour player . |
| 19 | There are many ways of doing this , but one of the best is to roll over onto your stomach and then to go on all fours . |
| 20 | It began life as an appendix to a pre-war American survey textbook , and then ran into several editions in its own right . |
| 21 | In the latter year Ealdred consecrated the abbey church of St Peter in Gloucester , which he had rebuilt , and then travelled with great ceremony by way of Hungary to Jerusalem , where he gave a gold chalice worth five marks to the church of the Holy Sepulchre . |
| 22 | When you start shoulder training it is best to do an exercise which works all 3 heads together and then concentrate on each head individually . |
| 23 | If you can not do the whole garden at once , I have found it better to do a small area really well and then concentrate on another the next year . |
| 24 | The young eagle trembled with fear , and then shivered with cold and loneliness as he looked at the cage that surrounded him , and above to where the bars and wire mesh stood out harshly against the lowering sky . |
| 25 | Erm , so the editorial task each each time is exactly the same , you had to rewrite the extract in modern standard English , and then comment on any differences , and explain why those differences occurred , but they are quite often , erm , eighteenth or nineteenth century extracts from books , descriptions of things , erm , dialect , descriptions of of events , and things like that , and last year 's one , on , the one of last year 's paper was er , a middle English one . |
| 26 | In the first part of the chapter I shall look at some of the similarities which characterize both policies and then turn to some of the contradictions which may well result in significant problems for both of the initiatives . |
| 27 | I will deal first with those concerned with covenants in leases and then turn to those concerned with other joint and several obligations . |
| 28 | They took St-Léonard-de-Noblat by storm , massacred its inhabitants , and then swept on past Limoges to capture and sack Brantôme . |
| 29 | Cells were scraped into extraction buffer , incubated for 1h at 4°C with gentle vortexing every 10 min , and then centrifuged at 18,000 g for 20min . |
| 30 | There seems to be no logical reason for ignoring some and then picking on one , but one can only suppose that , having missed , for whatever reason , their first opportunity of causing trouble , the authorities were just glad to get a second chance . |