Example sentences of "then [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was disappointing to play so well at times and then lose it in that one spell . |
| 2 | Throw Enfield a question and he 'll bounce it around , knock off a few apt replies and then launch himself into one of the manic routines from the new show . |
| 3 | A third approach is evident in cases which accept in principle extensive review for error of law which flows from Anisminic and O'Reilly , but which then qualify it in varying ways . |
| 4 | My own preference when using these elite units is to mass them in a body to provide the heaviest punch possible and then unleash them against one section of the enemy line with the hope that the breakthrough will start a general rout of the enemy force . |
| 5 | If si is initially 1 , then change it to 0 with probability |
| 6 | If si is initially 0 , then change it to 1 with probability |
| 7 | If the dog continues , then place it in another room on its own , re-emphasizing the word quiet . |
| 8 | In addition , Piaget ( 1926 ) carried out an observational study of children 's spontaneous speech , and a study in which children had to listen to a spoken explanation and then relay it to another person . |
| 9 | erm , and to use a word that would be used in other areas , retraining goes on , amongst the judiciary or do they just get to this pinnacle , and then hold it against all comers , until they choose to retire , I mean , in any other , er , job where you have a peculiar expertise , like that , you would be expected to update yourself , to keep up with the trends , you would be sent away to conferences , and retraining courses . |
| 10 | and then put them on five minutes defrost . |
| 11 | We write it out in longhand , each of the 700 or so entries on individual sheets of A4 paper and then put them into alphabetical order . ’ |
| 12 | pick out a lot of those and then put them in another part of the garden . |
| 13 | But why should speakers or writers actually plan to say something in one way and then put it in other words in order to ensure the intended interpretation ? |
| 14 | Oh I just boiled the ends a bit and erm and then put it in deep water . |
| 15 | I then multiply it by five and the larger number exceeds the smaller number by 8 . |
| 16 | " I am thinking of a number , I then multiply it by seven and add on five " . |
| 17 | A slightly different form of bitonal and polytonal usage is found where composers define a tonality strongly and then contradict it in some prominent way . |
| 18 | Will the Minister release MOD votes to allow local authorities , in collaboration with the MOD , to bring empty housing owned by the local authorities and the MOD up to acceptable standards and then transfer it to local authority control for the express purpose of providing homes to ex-service personnel ? |
| 19 | You then face it with another wardrobe , or if not a wardrobe you 'll face it with something like a chest of drawers and the and put a c er er a wrapper over that and then upside down on top of that th there would be a dressing table , and they would face in . |
| 20 | Fujitsu and Hitachi have made no effort to leapfrog IBM by introducing entirely new machines , for this would defeat the plug-compatible strategy : to let IBM create the demand and then meet it at lower prices . |
| 21 | On Friday the group will start an arduous four week journey on a cargo ship then drive themselves for 1,000 kilometres through the Kalahari Desert . |
| 22 | A deconstructive reading of this kind , then , will take the metaphysical , logocentric oppositions at work in a text , reverse them , and then question them in such a way as to ‘ neutralize ’ them . |
| 23 | Even more remarkably , they do not digest the nematocysts along with the rest of the sea anemone , but collect them in their stomachs and then pass them along narrow channels lined by motile hairs which move the contents of the channel in one direction only , and which lead from the stomach to tiny pouches situated near the periphery of the papillae . |
| 24 | The patient might tell you what if , if the casualty was still able to talk , they might be able to give you the history of how they became like they were , received a blow , got kicked , fell onto something hard , okay and so on and so on , they might be able to tell you themselves , give some indication , right , you would remove and loosen off all tight clothing , okay , loosen off the clothing for them and then treat them for shock and then refer them to urgent medical attention , nil by mouth on any account , okay ? |
| 25 | He would make me look at pictures and then reproduce them with coloured pencils , or else ask me to rotate a figure mentally a certain number of degrees around a given perpendicular before attempting to redraw it . |
| 26 | Think about these points in the story and then discuss them with other people . |
| 27 | I think the second sort of problem , that you referred to , you have these quite sharp contrasts between the sort of Gatwick erm Crawley area spreading out , where you 've got a young population erm and the coast , where you 've got an ageing population — how does the county allocate its resources and how does it above all , having built schools in Gatwick in Crawley , then convert them to teenage centres and so on . |
| 28 | Put three in , find it 's cube root and then find one over that . |
| 29 | We then find ourselves with these two approaches : the simultaneous and the bilingual . |
| 30 | If the container held cooking oil , scrub it out well with detergent , then rinse it in clean water and dry it . |