Example sentences of "and then [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Problems were encountered when personnel officials — generally lacking in senior and especially Board status — were being asked to advertise for , interview , help select and then appoint executives to positions considerably higher than those they held themselves . |
| 2 | The first step is to define and analyse the problems and then to set objectives to be achieved . |
| 3 | The money-traders ( bankers ) take deposits from savers and then issue promises-to-pay to borrowers . |
| 4 | Tens of thousands of Haitians responded to news of the coup attempt by taking to the streets where , armed with machetes and clubs , they paralysed the capital by building and then setting fire to barricades . |
| 5 | At Piteŝti the road turned left amid a forest of oil installations and then cut south-west to Craiova 120 kilometres further on . |
| 6 | aggro we 've had of and forms and then writing letters to him |
| 7 | Changes in methods of firing and the growing popularity of Raku have altered all this , and whether you immerse the object in sawdust , and then set fire to the lot , or just sprinkle sawdust on the newlyfired and still hot piece , the subtleties in surface texture can be extremely rewarding . |
| 8 | He returned to become house surgeon to the famous Professor James Syme [ q.v. ] , and then house physician to ( Sir ) William Gairdner [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx . |
| 10 | Nevertheless it is worth recalling that Foucault never starts at the political , but rather begins with a contemporary problem and then addresses questions to politics about it . |
| 11 | This new program opens the file , sets PTR# to the end ( line 380 ) and then adds data to it . |
| 12 | Well er we , we 've taken a , a , a policy view over the years because the group has a number of er very attractive er products and , and , and , and shareholders have frequently asked if was possible erm , to have concessions in all sorts of areas and the view we 've taken is that it involves a , a , a , a , a great deal of administration and that our real job is to er increase the profits of the business er , a as well as we can and then to pay dividends to the shareholders erm who will er , er , then use that money er , hopefully to buy a good number of our products . |
| 13 | Alternatively , you can close the opponent 's guard hand across his body with a slapping block that travels diagonally forwards , and then reverse punch to the opponents face . |
| 14 | I shall warm to my theme and then give way to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 15 | There is a danger that the newcomers will dodge about trying to find somewhere to sit , and then whisper apologies to those near them , while you and your audience lose track of what you were saying . |
| 16 | Producers checked with the Queen and Buckingham Palace and then distributed copies to other TV and radio companies round the world . |
| 17 | A man who , for the sheer fun of it , intentionally torments and then sets fire to a cat , knowing full well what he is doing , is a paradigm example of what legal and moral opposition to cruelty to animals has meant historically . |
| 18 | A Vietnamese airport official said they went through the usual passport and customs procedures and then boarded buses to Soc San reception centre which was also the first stop for almost 600 boat people who returned voluntarily from Hong Kong earlier this year . |
| 19 | And then add MIDI to that and you can see the difference . ’ |
| 20 | To get to Benghazi , the convoy had to travel from Kabrit into Cairo and then head south to El Kharga and Kufra . |
| 21 | Leave the road at the path on the right around 900 yards past the cattle grid and carry on to Alderford and then head west to Rockford . |
| 22 | P.C. Foster took down the relevant particulars and then escorted Woolridge to the cells . |
| 23 | First to make it , he wrote , and then to show it , and then to bring things to a finish . |
| 24 | These collocations could be regarded as extensions to the base meaning of a particular word ; for example , in the case of ’ weak ’ , we could regard the base meaning as ’ lack of physical strength ’ and then acknowledge modifications to this base meaning when used in the context of describing solutions . |