Example sentences of "[coord] then [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Jonathan lets the water out , and then fills it back up again . |
| 2 | Listen to ten digits try to hold on to them and then write them down . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , he licked it off , and then followed you back . ’ |
| 4 | The dwarf used to catch some in his hands , and then let them out suddenly under my nose . |
| 5 | He took big lungfuls of air and then let them out in great racking sobs that shook his whole body . |
| 6 | He went to close the windows and stepped inside the room , planning to lock them and then let himself out by Sara 's front door . |
| 7 | Jinny hunted for what she wanted to say and then let it out in a rush . |
| 8 | Morris inhaled smoke , held it for some minutes , and then let it out down his nose . |
| 9 | Finlayson held his breath , and then let it out in a rush . |
| 10 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 11 | Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen . |
| 12 | Anyone whose got a scanner and a paper could do us who did n't get the paper a big favour by scanning the section concerning the 470 players and then sending it around ! |
| 13 | Whilst most of this macro was created using the Macro Record facility , the sections which deal with the path and document name were added by loading the macro as a file and then typing them in . |
| 14 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 15 | Theda put trembling fingers to her lips and then stretched them out unconsciously . |
| 16 | To deny herself equally , she acknowledged bitterly , still painfully aware of her body 's aching need for fulfilment as she pulled the straps of her dress up over her shoulders and then zipped it up swiftly . |
| 17 | Attempts were made to contact all those writing for information about the scheme in 1980 and then follow them up in detail . |
| 18 | their press release , so I might do that in future , send out a release and then follow it up on the phone call . |
| 19 | The others watched him scramble up it and then pull himself up until he could , very quickly , glance over the armrest . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll go in first and then pull you up . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I bet we could sling a hook up and then pull it over towards the window , and then — ’ |
| 22 | Right and then get them down there , the machine wo n't be ready until about half past nine . |
| 23 | I 'll pay you what I owe and then get it back off the agency . ’ |
| 24 | there were dishes of chopped up spring onion and all like that and you put your own mixture int middle and then rolled it up . |
| 25 | In his second defence of the title , against the man he had beaten to win it in June , Wharton 's awesome blows cut Carr above his left eye and then had him down for a count of eight and unable to defend himself when he regained his feet . |
| 26 | Avoid these foods for at least six months and then try them out carefully . |
| 27 | Try playing lemmings with the PC 's beeper , and then try it out on a machine that is sound-equipped , and you 'll never want to play it again until you have better sound . |
| 28 | And then change it back afterwards . |
| 29 | Join up the bottom of the h to make a b , and then flip it over to make the d , the p and the q . |
| 30 | Jenna looked across towards the barn and then flung herself back beside him to lie watching the clouds scudding across the blue sky . |