Example sentences of "they then [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who are interested pay £2,500 which they then exchange for stock and an exclusive area . |
| 2 | SEYMOUR PAPERT believes that children learn by building their own intellectual structures which they then apply to reality . |
| 3 | Many people associate the Alexander Technique with putting particular parts of the body into certain positions which they then hold in place thinking that this is improved posture . |
| 4 | They then progressed to half-pass ; coming up the centre line and then performing half-pass towards E. Jennie told Katharine to keep her inside leg on the girth , as the horse should bend in the direction of the movement , as opposed to leg-yielding where the horse keeps in a straight line . |
| 5 | Using a line disturbs all the rabbits ; it touches them and they then dash for home . |
| 6 | The league champions could scarcely believe their luck as they then moved into overdrive scoring four tries in the final quarter without reply . |
| 7 | They then wheeled in unison into a shaft of light which held them for a second or so before they soared over the car and away . |
| 8 | At the time he thought this ‘ dance ’ merely alerted the other bees to the presence of food , which they then located by smell . |
| 9 | The Derry republicans had organised a Release the Prisoners Committee in 1962 , but they then retired into obscurity until 1966 , when six members were arrested for taking part in an illegal Easter Rising commemoration . |
| 10 | The black-out happened on Monday night when vandals crawled down a 100-yard tunnel which carried eight 33,000-volt mains cables , dragging a lorry tyre which they then set on fire . |
| 11 | The black-out happened on Monday night when vandals crawled down a 100-yard tunnel which carried eight 33,000-volt mains cables , dragging a lorry tyre which they then set on fire . |
| 12 | From the comparative opulence of 17-6 they then slipped into penury by conceding 18 unanswered points . |
| 13 | But by 1898 the Chrimes brothers had on their ledgers over 10,000 names of women who had responded to their advertisements and these they then used for blackmail . |
| 14 | In 1872 , the Glasgow Mission for the Deaf was properly reorganised , and Strathern was secretary for them then acted as treasurer for many years until he resigned due to differences with the then committee . |