Example sentences of "then [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cells were treated with chemicals for 30min at 37 °C or as stated and then incubated for the indicated times before isolation of total RNA . |
| 2 | The sections were incubated in 5% normal rabbit serum to reduce background staining and then incubated with the monoclonal antibody to bromodeoxyuridine ( Dakopatts , Denmark ) diluted 1:100 with phosphate buffer for one hour . |
| 3 | Preparations were incubated with the primary antibody for 60 minutes , rinsed in Tris buffered saline and then incubated with the secondary antibody ( mouse anti-rabbit , diluted in Tris buffered saline/normal human serum ) for 30 minutes . |
| 4 | One presumes Waterloo then asked for the best of three for just qualifying for Bath is worth a minimum of £1,500 . |
| 5 | There he attracted his employer 's attention with a polite cough , then whispered in the latter 's ear : ‘ I 'm very sorry , sir , but there appears to be a tiger in the dining room . |
| 6 | Kenny then excelled in the higher sphere and helped the Palace to gain the 2nd Division championship with the club 's best-ever defensive record , and to reach the top of the Football League in September 1979 . |
| 7 | The share of income paid in taxes was more or less proportional to income for most families ( about 20–5 per cent of income ) and then rose for the top 10 per cent of highest income earners . |
| 8 | The cylinder bounced hard on Dream Baby 's dazzle-painted transom , then sank in the clear water where , resting on the sea-bed , it continued to discharge its disgusting foam . |
| 9 | The objective defined in 1858 was to enable ‘ persons requiring medical aid … to distinguish qualified from unqualified practitioners ’ and we need only read some early issues of the Lancet to learn that the medical register was regarded at the time as a list of doctors who set themselves higher standards than the multitude of quacks who then preyed on the sick . |
| 10 | He held it up triumphantly as though it were a trophy then knelt beside the nearest keg and traced his finger around the seal of the small bung . |
| 11 | I cried out in shock , then gaped at the empty stairs disappearing into blackness . |
| 12 | Soften the cheese , then beat in the soured cream or fromage frais . |
| 13 | On the back were the first few lines of a sketch for another painting , then scrawled across the lower half of the untreated canvas were some illegible words with numbers beside them , added up at the bottom , by the stretcher . |
| 14 | As he [ Mr Field ] was elected and then reselected under the old 1985 procedure and he accepted those victories with a certain amount of good grace , I would hope he would accept that procedure . |
| 15 | We visited the chapel and then headed for the living quarters . |
| 16 | He took Sir Bryan 's rejected set of clubs back to the caddie-master 's hut and then headed for the Tented Village . |
| 17 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 18 | Armed with my definition of a manager and my time-span measuring instrument , I then bumped into the second surprising finding — repeatedly confirmed — about layering in managerial hierarchies : the boundaries between successive managerial layers occur at certain specific time-span increments , just as ice changes to water and water to steam at certain specific temperatures . |
| 19 | The shadow of our plane skipped across the bright sea , then flickered over the outer coral . |
| 20 | She ran along the side of the house , round the back of a stone-stilted granary and down behind the dovecot , and then darted across the last few yards to the wall . |
| 21 | Discontent simmered and then exploded in the nationalist protests against Japanese rule in 1919 . |
| 22 | We then sailed along the African coast . |
| 23 | He then came to the Ottoman domains , an event which Asikpasazade and Nesri assign to the reign of Mehmed I ( 816–24/1413–21 ) . |
| 24 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 25 | Then woke to the empty pillow beside hers ; body stretched in delicious ecstasy , as if her sweet saint had just that second ghosted away . |
| 26 | When our member then appealed to the Regional Secretary and said , well , I think I do wan na appeal and go further than this because I feel I 'm right , what letter did we then get in reply . |
| 27 | The Fowlers then appealed to the High Court but lost and earlier this week the council approved a further plan involving the farmhouse as well as the farm . |
| 28 | Charnley then appealed to the Scottish League , but the management committee decided that it would support the Paisley club . |
| 29 | A weird cocktail of fragmented narrative , crazy characters , gross-out eating scenes , bizarre sex ( at one point Singapore is strapped to a bed , given electric shock treatment and then straddled by the squealing daughter while still convulsing ) , this is obscurely related to Otto Preminger 's classic 1944 film noir , Laura . |
| 30 | from a deliberately slow start , he went past 10 miles in around 1:25 then accelerated through the second half of the race to turn in a respectable 2:42:31 . |