Example sentences of "and then [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of a vague feeling of loyalty , a need to repay someone or something who had seemed to walk with me through the burning fiery furnace of my husband 's last illness , I had started now and then to go to church . |
| 2 | He had worked for the same firm for 16 years without working on a Sunday because of his objection to working on a Sunday and his wish to stay at home and then to go to church . |
| 3 | At the same time another craft was heard to approach shore and then to return to sea . |
| 4 | Typical of artists to read nothing except what they happen upon and then to pontificate about life and art and the way the world is going . |
| 5 | In theoretical work , the turbulence is supposed to be generated at an initial instant and then to decay as time proceeds . |
| 6 | He started to speak and then to recite in front of a mirror . |
| 7 | Couples of all ages strolled leisurely along , stopping now and then to look in shop windows . |
| 8 | Pretty certain this must be the man , Paige set off down the street , stopping every now and then to look in shop windows and cast surreptitious glances backwards . |
| 9 | They are generally operated on a fixed cycle , so that , when a known volume of water has passed through the plant , a valve is turned so as first to backwash the bed to cleanse the zeolite , and then to pass in brine for a fixed time to regenerate the material . |
| 10 | Remember that it is far better to get down and then to run into obstruction than to stall on to it at flying speed . |