Example sentences of "and then [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mould is made round it in detachable pieces , and in these a wax casting-mould is moulded or cast and then filled with a core ; and the bronze is cast from this as in the direct method . |
| 2 | A wheat ear , in celebration perhaps , flew up and then descended in a slow ‘ butterfly ’ display flight . |
| 3 | Derive expressions for the torque needed to hold 0 constant under the following conditions : ( i ) when the plates are connected to a source of constant voltage V ; ( ii ) after the plates have been rotated to their position of maximum capacitance , charged to voltage V , disconnected from the supply and then rotated to a new position . |
| 4 | Took up some good positions , had one half chance which the keeper did well to hold , and then chased after a long ball , outrun 2 defenders , hit it first time from 25 yards or so — straight into the bottom right corner , well the keeper got a slight touch which lifted it a bit higher but you get the idea . |
| 5 | Most flesh-eating reptiles have simple spikes that prevent them from chewing their prey ; they have to gulp it down whole and then remain in a torpor for days or weeks to digest the meal . |
| 6 | He waited until Dickie had reached the foot of the stairs and then said in a very loud voice , ‘ Who is that fellow ? |
| 7 | He leaned forward as if he meant to kiss her and then said in a low voice , ‘ I 'm going to give you the name of a first-rate lawyer . ’ |
| 8 | Eleanor glanced from side to side and then said in a low voice , ‘ It 's all right … what I told you about . ’ |
| 9 | In his experiments , subjects were presented with an informative sentence on a screen for 4 seconds , and then presented with a question about the content of the sentences . |
| 10 | Unlike many conference proceedings , which present a mere snapshot of the contributions made , this material has been selected , expanded and rounded to form a whole , and then presented in a uniform format . |
| 11 | Researchers have recently discovered small regions of genetic material in animal cells that can become detached from the chromosomes , enjoy an independent existence for a while , and then re-integrate at a different chromosomal location . |
| 12 | In 1978 America 's federal bankruptcy code was rewritten in order to make it easier to file for bankruptcy , to reorganise under the protection of chapter 11 of the code , and then to re-emerge as a going concern even under the same management . |
| 13 | Once an image has been scanned it can be scaled from ten to 200% of its original size , rotated or cropped , and then saved in a format such as TIFF , PCX or IMG. , for example . |
| 14 | Once an image has been scanned it can be scaled from ten to 200% of its original size , rotated or cropped , and then saved in a format such as TIFF , PCX or IMG. , for example . |
| 15 | You could use the newspaper columns and border options to create a reasonable-looking newsletter , adorn it with bullet points , drop capitals , drop shadows , extra fonts and then pull in a piece of clip-art to run your text around . |
| 16 | She and David decided to catch the bus down into Florence and then try for a taxi home . |
| 17 | Currently in a six month appointment a house officer may be attached to one team of consultants for three months and then change to a second team . |
| 18 | Davis from Richmond road in Oxford knocked her unconscious , threw her cycle into the river and then posed as a good Samaritan , pretending to comfort her , before attacking her again and trying to strangle her . |
| 19 | To find it , use Beta and Alpha to show the way to 9 Sagittæ and then turn to a little cluster of stars which is actually in Vulpecula ; U Sagittæ lies beyond . |
| 20 | Calls a low-level procedure getframe in turn for each half of the image and then waits through a specified decay period , the exposure . |
| 21 | I traversed delicately into it and then swung into a frighteningly wide bridge . |
| 22 | So er a a micro electrode was er fabricated and then put inside a cell and connected up with an amplifier . |
| 23 | Shall I wait and then put in er would it be better for me to wait and then put in a big lump sum ? |
| 24 | And then made into a stack ? |
| 25 | The obvious conclusion is that , at some moment in the far past , the Universe was compacted into a very small volume — the ‘ cosmic egg ’ — and then exploded in a ‘ Big Bang ’ . |
| 26 | She married John Hymes , also of Chester , and then lived on a series of farms in this area and in Kent and Lincolnshire . |
| 27 | A great adventure to two remarkable elderly women friends who met years ago teaching and then taught at a school for ‘ maddies and baddies ’ in Argyll funded by Strathclyde Region and then they developed and ran a world renowned restaurant on the Island of Luing . |
| 28 | The solution was a light wood , varnished to make it harder , and then carved into a perfect reproduction of Amy 's photocopied design . |
| 29 | In brief , about 20 µg cellular DNA in 0.5 ml of 0.5 M CaC12 was mixed with 0.5 ml of 50 mM hydroxyethylpeperazine-ethanesulphonic acid ( HEPES ) ( pH 7.1 ) and 70 mM sodium phosphate , and then agitated with a gentle stir . |
| 30 | These ‘ centre-devised ’ modules are sent out to specialist advisers for comment and then checked by a small committee , the Catalogue sub-committee , to see whether it makes sense to have the proposal developed for inclusion in the Catalogue . |