Example sentences of "[coord] then [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kates actually drop their torpedoes and then climb up over the ship superstructures as the torpedoes hit home . |
| 2 | There , he was able to lift himself on to his crutch again and then climb out of the stockade . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Shove 'em in t'manger , ’ Jonadab directed , ‘ and then get off for thi dinner . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The boss knows that his or her job is to establish those boundaries , and then get out of the way . ’ |
| 9 | I 'll ask her and then get back to one of you two to actually do the letter contact . |
| 10 | Scotland 's plight is such that Clyde 's goalkeeper , Scott Howie , will play against the Maltese in the afternoon ( the game has a 1.30pm kick-off ) and then turn out for Clyde in their Second Division match with Queen of the South at Douglas Park at 7.30pm . |
| 11 | Note the Heading and then refer back to the localiser . |
| 12 | They find some woollen garment or other soft furnishing in the house and then settle down on it in a contented fashion . |
| 13 | He remembered the vivid sunsets of his boyhood and the way the sun would hang like a crimson ball above the edge of the trees surrounding their house and then plunge out of sight as if it had been dropped in a moment of carelessness . |
| 14 | And then put up with Geoffrey Boycott saying ‘ Dear oh dear oh dear that were a terrible shot ’ twice an over ? |
| 15 | The digested sludge is dried in open pits and then put back into the pigs ' feed in a proportion of one part to 10 . |
| 16 | Where they do not exist it can be presumed that either the genuine silver-gilt coronet was used at the funeral and then put back into the strongroom after the funeral , or they have disintegrated . |
| 17 | Individuals or small groups are carefully trained in the new methods and then put back into their usual working positions . |
| 18 | The dormice are weighed and then put back into the nest . |
| 19 | Each part must be individually dried off and sprayed with oil to prevent corrosion and then put back in place . |
| 20 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 21 | His plan was to wait until Pearman had left , and then creep up on the baker 's young wife , knock her unconscious with the cudgel , and be off with the takings . |
| 22 | Ministers should draw up a budget and then pack up for the year . |
| 23 | They first describe the work of love as a double edged activity with positive and negative effect — purging sin and kindling the heart , clearing the soul and removing anger and sloth , wounding in love and fulfilling with charity , chasing off the devil and extinguishing fear — and then level out to the strongly stressed affirmation which defines the positive potential of the negative statement in chapter one " he hase noght Jhesu Criste , he tynes all he has , and all he es , and all he myght gete " ( 85.19 – 21 ) for he that has " Jhesu " grows through prayer to the fulfilment of human potential : heaven is open to him and he is made a " contemplatif man " . |
| 24 | The lips come last ; I outline them first and then fill in with a brush . |
| 25 | Finally , I thought I 'd call Connors and then catch up on some sack . |
| 26 | Luke shouted up to Anna that he would take Flora in , and then walk on to the sixth-form college . |
| 27 | We were going to say hullo to you , and then walk round to that little island — it 's called Seal Island — I ca n't say the Gaelic name but Mrs McDougall told me that 's what it means . |
| 28 | come up from , had a jug or two at come over here and stay the night and then walk down to in the morning . |
| 29 | Sometimes it 's so busy I go across with some of my friends with the crossing lady at the village school , and then walk back down Nottingham Road towards the school . |
| 30 | My husband was mad on golf , and he used to go down into the park and send golf balls onto the lawn and then walk back through the rose garden which I put in the wrong place . |