Example sentences of "then [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could then explain why the rate of expansion is still so close to the critical rate , without having to assume that the initial rate of expansion of the universe was very carefully chosen . |
| 2 | Some groups appreciate a formal input in lecture form but other methods may be used e.g. asking participants to reflect on language they would need when holidaying or living in a country such as Greece or China , and then drawing out the theory from the discussion . |
| 3 | Caroline tugged at the thin straps that held the red silk up over the generous curve of her breasts , then smoothed down the skirt as if her touch might somehow magically make it extend beyond her thighs . |
| 4 | From that we can then build up the job spec , you know the training needs like the , a little example we and then we can look at competency . |
| 5 | Then evaluate realistically the outcome if you choose to follow the message , and the outcome if you choose not to follow the message , under a ‘ can choose ’ column . |
| 6 | Check that your new box position is level , then chip out the plaster and masonry with hammer and steel chisel or bolster |
| 7 | The Director of Studies then asked why the syllabus did not set out the relationship between assessment criteria and objectives more explicitly . |
| 8 | She 's acting more naturally to the gusts , leaning out and then easing out the sheet . |
| 9 | It had only one skilled male dancer on its strength , Lionel Luyt , and in the first of their two programmes he had to partner the ballerina in the second act of Swan Lake , then dance both the Prince and Bluebird in Aurora 's Wedding ( with just three minutes to change costumes ) and finally lead the cast of Prince Igor . |
| 10 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
| 11 | As the car then goes down the line , past various work stations , all the components are fitted to the car in turn . |
| 12 | Dawn ( 4.8 ) made a symmetrical pattern of squares with pegs , then filled in the rest of the board , working across and down , always putting in a peg next to one already there but the colours were haphazard . |
| 13 | In the passage , she stumbled and almost fell , then flung back the door to the bedroom . |
| 14 | She hisses her disapproval , then snatches up the denims , and digs the key from one of the pockets . |
| 15 | Losses would be twice as high if energy producers imposed a carbon tax and kept the revenues for themselves , or if a tax were levied by a world agency which then shared out the revenue in proportion to each region 's population . |
| 16 | She looked at me and put her finger to her lips , then got out the broom and began to sweep up the crumbs . |
| 17 | This chapter illustrates some attractors : these static illustrations are a poor substitute for watching the trajectories approach and then wind around the attractor , and for following the sequence of bifurcations ( changes in type of attractor ) as a parameter is changed . |
| 18 | From Baden , those in a hurry might take the motorway east to the outskirts of Zurich , then pick up the northbound motorway , carrying on through Jestetten . |
| 19 | Then pick up the pace to within 20 to 30 seconds per mile of your 10K race pace and hold that for seven minutes . |
| 20 | Now , the cheats amongst us ( like me ) will discover that you can import graphics into the Cel editor , and will quickly come to the conclusion that very lifelike images can be formed by using a scanner to scan individual frames from a film , and then pick out the bits they want and place them on cels to form a small animated sequence . |
| 21 | It is as if surveyors had worked out what they were going to do and then laid out the plan on the landscape , ignoring the difficult topography of the area . |
| 22 | Our aim is first to determine the variation of electric field as a function of radius and then to work out the capacitance per unit length . |
| 23 | Daybreak tended to steal up gently on the valley , reinventing a fresh landscape out of the leftover mists of the night ; lake breezes would then strip away the shrouds one by one to uncover the forests and the shores and the mountains behind . |
| 24 | Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore . |
| 25 | Lighting the gas , she secured the kettle within the rails which would hold it in place , then snatched up the dishcloth . |
| 26 | Then skim off the fat , pour the juices back into the roasting tin and bubble them up . |
| 27 | The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve , originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens ( a fade-out ) , winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film ( a fade-in ) . |
| 28 | For if we assume that there is much in prisons that will not bear being exposed ( and if not , why keep it secret ? ) then opening up the prison is likely to decrease the legitimacy of the system . |
| 29 | He fumbled with the lock , then drew back the catch . |
| 30 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |