Example sentences of "[coord] then [v-ing] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half an hour later , an open-backed lorry carrying the same man and a dozen of his workmates raced past , stopping quickly enough to throw them comically forward , and then reversing hurriedly to me . |
| 2 | Briefly , their ‘ epidemic ’ model proposes that , from a stable endemic baseline , the number of new cases of heroin use ( incidence ) in a community increases rapidly for four years before peaking at ten times the level of initial endemic incidence in year five , and then dropping sharply to the previous endemic level during years six and seven ( see Figure 3.2 ) . |
| 3 | Now initially er starting er starting May er for suppliers to be the adverts for from the beginning of the summer holidays and then looking forward to the Christmas trade . |
| 4 | So the high-speed ocean-going fish — tuna , bonito , marlin , mackerel — have most marvellously streamlined bodies , sharply pointed in the front , swelling quickly to maximum diameter and then tapering elegantly to the two-bladed symmetrical tail fin . |
| 5 | This is perhaps less surprising when one considers that these definitions are derived by examining and grouping the actual collocations found for any particular word , and then working backwards to a definition from the separate contextual groupings [ Mackin , 1978 ] . |