Example sentences of "then [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air , thus refreshed , rises to the top of the nest and then circulates back down other passageways . |
| 2 | It examines the conditions under which a voting equilibrium exists ; and then goes on to representative democracy . |
| 3 | He then goes on in separate chapters to cover sexism , racism , ageism and disablism . |
| 4 | Every few seconds , it stops , executes a pirouette with its head lifted and then dashes off in another direction . |
| 5 | All that happens is that the animal waits until the treated garments are discarded and then homes in on some other , more suitable surface . |
| 6 | Bourner and Hamed ( 1987 ) in their study of CNM graduates have reported that degree performance improves with age until students reach the age of about 40 and then declines back towards that of younger students . |
| 7 | It then starts off on another ‘ rodent-run ’ , watching to see if it is followed . |
| 8 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |
| 9 | Each generation in the Church makes its own effort and then hands over to those who follow . |
| 10 | It then takes up to 15 stages of filtration and other methods to separate the few parts per million of useful protein . |
| 11 | Sam starts humming the riff from ‘ Caroline ’ with a fondness that nine years ' respite should have erased , and then snaps back into historical mode . |
| 12 | He then moves on to 10 minutes of shadow boxing before Davies dons the hand-pads and waits for pain . |
| 13 | It then moves on to simple applications of that technology ( standalone applications ) normally driven by technologists . |
| 14 | Sandra takes the compliment gracefully , then moves back to those magazine fantasies . |
| 15 | After resting for a while , it suddenly gets up , looks around and then sets off on one of its mad dashes . |
| 16 | When the term is used in relation to the human figure , the camera distance then comes down from hundreds of yards to tens of feet . |