Example sentences of "[coord] then [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pulling off the silky dress with trembling hands , then the slips of white lace which did service as bra and pants , she angrily kicked off the low-heeled white sandals , raked her long blonde hair out of its French plait , and then plunged gratefully for the privacy of the small en-suite bathroom , standing beneath the shower for a long , soothing soak before she climbed into bed in the baggy jade T-shirt which she wore as a nightshirt . |
| 2 | The BBC 's proposed solution was that everything should be handled by the BBC and then licensed back to the publishers . |
| 3 | The initial opinions are collated and compiled , and then fed back to the panel . |
| 4 | Halfway across , Jenny jumped , landed , felt her foot slip from under her , gave a yell of fear , and then toppled sideways into the river . |
| 5 | The 34-year-old Peterlee financial consultant won her specialist event , the 100 metres hurdles , on Saturday , and then followed up by taking the gold medal in the 100 metres yesterday . |
| 6 | The path goes to the right to reach a stream at a small gorge and then goes slightly to the left to pass Loch an Fhir-bhallaich . |
| 7 | The second session begins with a few limbering-up exercises and then goes immediately to the selection . |
| 8 | It examines the conditions under which a voting equilibrium exists ; and then goes on to representative democracy . |
| 9 | But Roxy er Roxy that was from his new C D Midnight Postcards and er he 's going to be at Nottingham 's Theatre Royal March the twenty eighth next year in Alfie , coming well ahead of it to tell us about it , and that 's going to be a blockbuster I think next year , and then goes on to Los Angeles . |
| 10 | ‘ Ah ! ’ she says , and then goes over to the other side of the shop . |
| 11 | and then goes in to her . |
| 12 | He shouted angrily to his son , ‘ Get up , Linton ! ’ and then said politely to Cathy , ‘ Miss Cathy , would you help him back to the house . |
| 13 | so he took some bread down and then popped up to the gate where they these were sort of quite a way a way , and Gemma said you wait there with Jane and I 'll invite those people to come up , you see and erm , I 've got ta be a bit cool , went to the table to put some bread there course it an awful and she |
| 14 | The Kates actually drop their torpedoes and then climb up over the ship superstructures as the torpedoes hit home . |
| 15 | There , he was able to lift himself on to his crutch again and then climb out of the stockade . |
| 16 | Now that was a year , but , er because you was n't a bound apprentice , when trade fell off in the winter , and it fell off drastically in the winter , and then built up for Easter , when everyone in those days bought new clothes . |
| 17 | We happily ‘ botanised ’ our way along the shore and then struck inland to where the penguins had established their colony . |
| 18 | We took a rickety public bus with him twenty miles out of town and then struck out on foot for several hours into the wilderness . |
| 19 | Now to be agile you 've got to be able to let your body give to gravity and then pull away from gravity , alternating very quickly er that gives you agility . |
| 20 | If , instead of ( 29 ) , I say ( 30 ) , then I direct you to pay particular attention and care to each of the operations involved in doing ( 29 ) , this being an implicature of the use of the longer expression : ( 29 ) Open the door ( 30 ) Walk up to the door , turn the door handle clockwise as far as it will go , and then pull gently towards you But perhaps the most important of the sub-maxims of Manner is the fourth , " be orderly " . |
| 21 | At this point Fleischmann decided that as the whole thing was going ahead , then he should make the best of it and then get away for home in England immediately . |
| 22 | The Tirajana apartments are ideal for those wishing to enjoy the nightlife and then get away from it at the end of the day . |
| 23 | you know because some people claim not to , blind and sighted , er you know and then , then maybe you can sort of say well , you know , what sort of things do you see , what sort of things do you feel and then get on to something specific |
| 24 | The final sections of ‘ Van Gogh ’ are particularly masterly : as the painter painfully dies in the little village inn , his friends lament his passing for a moment and then get on with the business of the day — shopping , washing clothes , preparing for work . |
| 25 | Sometimes he was too sick to eat anything all day , but other days he would sleep for a while and then get up for a meal . |
| 26 | ‘ Shove 'em in t'manger , ’ Jonadab directed , ‘ and then get off for thi dinner . ’ |
| 27 | And they used to run from here to Harwich , Felixstowe , that used to be their run , all run by the you could you could get a bus oh you could go down go on them boats and you go to Harwich , Felixstowe and then get off at Felixstowe and come on the bus if you wanted to . |
| 28 | The boss knows that his or her job is to establish those boundaries , and then get out of the way . ’ |
| 29 | I 'll ask her and then get back to one of you two to actually do the letter contact . |
| 30 | They 're used to be one , one of them what got killed used to , he used to ride his bike up and down the path here and sh , as start , he 'd get on his bike , she 'd run down to that bush down there and then get there before him and then , soon as he start to come back he was running back and beat him ! |