Example sentences of "and then [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then dropping out of it when I was twelve or thirteen , getting sidetracked by hormonal changes and the need to , like , butt heads with people out on the grass for a while … |
| 2 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 3 | Q plans to put out the final part of his novel on video with the narration over Super 8 footage shot by Don Letts , before issuing a DEADMEAT ‘ remix ’ mass-market edition , and then moving on to a new book to be called Supermodel and concerned with , well , supermodels . |
| 4 | Luciana Mottola Colban discussed the plans with Danièle Giraudy , one of the minds behind the Pompidou Centre , where she worked in an educational role for eight years , before becoming director of the Musée Picasso at Antibes , and then moving on to the Musée des Arts Decoratifs as Director in 1991 . |
| 5 | The current development of CAD procedures has so far been directed towards providing a complete geometric description of an object initially , and then moving on to the generation of manufacturing instructions ( see Figure 1.8 ) . |
| 6 | With urban wastes , the process is generally in two stages : digesting with algae and then moving on to anaerobic bacterial fermentation . |
| 7 | Ignore personal attacks and criticism by thanking the opposition for their feedback and then moving on with the positive aspects of your case . |
| 8 | Originally it was planned to bring the tax in in two stages starting with an eight per cent rise and then moving up to the full seventeen and a half . |
| 9 | He probably worked on all his victims this way — softening them up , earning their trust and then moving in for the kill . |
| 10 | This effect is achieved by giving a small , focused example of a very emotional and personal experience and then moving out onto a much larger scale and asking more general questions about humanity . |
| 11 | Here only three sub-activities are shown : commencing with the concepts phase , leading into both the analysis and scheming phases , and then passing through to the manufacturing phase . |
| 12 | Lucy said , clambering to her feet and then looking around for anywhere that she might have missed . |
| 13 | But Gran accepted it , patting her hand and then looking round at the clock as if to remind herself life had to go on . |
| 14 | A stroll in the moonlight by the old St Joseph 's seminary and the lake , and then looking down on the lights of Wigan . |
| 15 | I cleaned my arse quickly and pulled my trousers up , pulling the chain , too , and then waddling out into the corridor , zipping up . |
| 16 | The easier alternative for video is to record the scene as a two-shot ( page 73 ) , the static nature of which can be relieved by discreetly zooming in and panning between the two speakers from time to time and then zooming back to the two-shot . |
| 17 | More recent imports include Stearman N746BJ which , unusually , was actually flown across the Atlantic , arriving at Glasgow on July 30 and then flying on to Gamston the next day . |
| 18 | By selling out when land values hit their peak in 1988 and then buying back at bargain levels later on , canny Pidgely has been able to slash house prices and still make a near-20% average profit per property . |
| 19 | But it 's got to be a case of saying ‘ hello ’ and then getting on with business . |
| 20 | There was n't much space along here , and he could no longer rely on people taking one look and then getting out of his way because there was nowhere for them to go . |
| 21 | He outlined his idea for a movie plot , which was basically the story of two Californian friends who decide to make a once-and-for-all fortune by selling a consignment of cocaine , and then setting off across the country for a marijuana-cum-motorbikes adventure . |
| 22 | Actors David Suchet ( Poirot ) and Hugh Lattimer ( Hastings ) were filmed deep in conference inside their Pullman coach ‘ Finall ’ and then stepping out of the coach and then being driven away from Horsted Keynes Station — renamed for the day — by vintage car . |
| 23 | And then writing back to this contact i either in New York or in Virginia or wherever it was , saying that it th they would give him the dimensions of the roof , that they could tell him exactly how many slates they 'd need to cover it . |
| 24 | I suspect that Pound never went further into Aubeterre than this inn , and one needs to have walked in his footsteps from Chalais to Aubeterre to see how he could well have done this , skirting the hill , stopping for perhaps a mid-day meal in the inn , and then pushing on at once for La Tour Blanche . |
| 25 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |
| 26 | Carmichael wanted to avoid the risk of plucking remedies out of the air and then casting round for arguments to support them , which , he said , was the common practice in local authorities . |
| 27 | Decentralization from the inner parts of cities accelerated from about 1960 , affecting the largest places first and then spreading down through the urban hierarchy . |
| 28 | If you are dealing with , and are dependent on , several big customers , it is worth finding out how and when they pay their debtors , and then fitting in with their procedures . |
| 29 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 30 | 2 men were seen walking away and then driving off with a woman and possibly another man . |