Example sentences of "and then [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards they had eaten lunch and then despite the heat had started home . |
| 2 | We were in the sedan : Ebert , Fest and I. Ebert was sounding off , first about Karr and then about the General . |
| 3 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 4 | A local biologist , Rocio L pez , claims that heavy rains wash nematicides into the waterways and then into the ocean . |
| 5 | When this old men 's ideology starts to be transmitted into literature , and from literature into popular writings , and then into the press especially the gutter press and the mass media then it begins slowly to form the people . |
| 6 | ‘ If only it had been me I would have flown to the highest tree where they could n't catch me and then , and then into the sky to find the wind . ’ |
| 7 | I spent holidays at home , but went to school over here , and then into the Army . |
| 8 | Not only did Nicola Larini manage to bring the new Modena-Lamborghini through pre-qualifying and then into the race , he gave the new team more than it had thought possible by finishing seventh , albeit three laps behind . |
| 9 | After a short run , the lady driver turned down a narrow lane , and then into the driveway leading to a large ranch-type bungalow . |
| 10 | But I got promoted to the road roller and then into the power station so |
| 11 | These are the last three characters and then into the extension , the they 're probably going to be W K one . |
| 12 | Thus , if the goal is for your dog to eat in the car rather than the kitchen , in preparation for a long journey , move its dish a few inches a day towards the car , and then into the car . |
| 13 | He chooses Northamptonshire in 1792 and we journey with him up to the present and then into the future . |
| 14 | And then into the future where will that G U I capability lead us ? |
| 15 | And then into the investment trust , and Colonial , er and erm er let's see , , people like that . |
| 16 | Continue to bring forced bulbs into the greenhouse as the shoots reach 1–2″ ( 2.5–5cm ) , and then into the house as the buds show among the leaves . |
| 17 | ‘ We should start in the engine room , ’ Nell suggested , shivering , ‘ work up through the crew 's quarters , and then into the complex . ’ |
| 18 | I use it normally on a clean setting , but if I want distortion I tend to go through a BOSS Turbo Overdrive pedal and then into the Rock Box . |
| 19 | Freudian dream analysis proceeded by the patient 's lying down on the couch , and in as relaxed a frame of mind as possible recounting his or her dream , and then considering the dream images in turn , providing free associations to the object represented . |
| 20 | We round a headland and I am behind again because of staring downwards and then towards the horizon , willing an orca to break surface . |
| 21 | Campion stabbed his finger twice , once at Carson , you , and then towards the road shoulder , over there , and then Sorvino put the Ford across the Mercedes ' bows and slowed him into the side of the road . |
| 22 | ‘ Your friend , she is not with you ? ’ he enquired , with a solicitous bob first at Dora and then towards the door . |
| 23 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
| 24 | And then towards the end of his life when he was already ill , he had one last hope to cling to . |
| 25 | junior Colts , sorry junior Colts , and he said erm ah had a bit of a roll at the beginning and then towards the end now we 've sort of lost loads in a row so I said , he said alright I said about the same with us then I was , so I said it 's cold and he said mm yes it is rather . |
| 26 | ‘ We have identified that as a link from Stockton station into the new Teesdale site , linking up with the new university , alongside the Teesside Park development into the centre of Middlesbrough and then towards the east , turning down Cargo Fleet Lane , terminating at Ormesby . |
| 27 | Money paid by the defendant is appropriated first to reducing the principal debt and then towards the interest . |
| 28 | Paco Rabanne has had two lives in his present incarnation — that of the revolutionary 60s dress designer , and then as the name behind one of the world 's most successful men 's fragrances . |
| 29 | The late meal was eaten in comparative silence , and then as the clock on the mantelshelf struck ten o'clock Carrie slipped on her coat . |
| 30 | She spends much of the opera in disguise , first as a ‘ doctor ’ who ‘ revives ’ the Albanians ( who have pretended to kill themselves when rejected ) by means of an enormous magnet ( thanks to Dr Mesmer ) , and then as the notary who is to perform the marriage ceremony . |