Example sentences of "and then [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He clambered over the shingle at the bottom of the cliff and then up the cliff itself , arriving at the eleventh green .
2 Has a characteristic song , with a series of cooing or bubbling notes that run down and then up the scale .
3 As he journeyed on horseback through Palestine and then up the coast of southern Lebanon in the 1830s , he was an adventurer , staying overnight with the governor of Tyre , crossing the snows of the Chouf mountain chain to the gentleness of the Bekaa Valley where he sketched the great temples of the Roman city of Heliopolis .
4 Finally we reached Porto that afternoon , by flying VFR through the valley route to the coast as the bases rose in the afternoon , and then up the coast at 1,000 feet , just below the base of the broken cumulus , with spectacular views of Porto , before nipping inland to the field to park next to the German aircraft — which we were relieved to see had landed safely .
5 eg. ( SELF , UP , DOWN ) would cause the model to first look at the user who caused the last transition for a possible match , followed by a search up the user tree and then down the tree .
6 Then brush your hands , up the arms , front and back , across the shoulders , down the chest ( avoiding the nipples if you are a woman ) and then down the back of the neck to the upper back .
7 Items of trade destined for southern Germany now had to be transported across the Corridor and then down the length of Germany .
8 Blackberry , alert and intelligent , looking first up and then down the ditch before he crossed it .
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