Example sentences of "and then [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a water test , the drain is also stoppered and then filled with water to see whether this can be retained . |
| 2 | Even tin — imagine , just imagine , my dear and most esteemed Advocate , one of those medical illustrations , those écorché figures showing the skeins of muscle , the ropes of veins , in three dimensions , and then transmuted into metal , so that the tissues and channels and ducts and gristle ’ — the speaker 's hands traced intricate forms in the air in his morbid enthusiasm — ‘ look as if they have been made out of silver wire . ’ |
| 3 | The French made countless varieties of goats ' milk cheeses which are often small and wrapped in a chestnut leaf and then tied with raffia ( see p67 ) . |
| 4 | The two days Maxim spent ambushing his own followers and then kicked into exile by George . |
| 5 | and then fished in line with the end of that reed boat |
| 6 | This situation is very difficult to handle and it is worth trying to avoid early escalation of treatment with sulphonylureas and then progressing to insulin . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't let it slip away , make certain your thoughts are known , visit the exhibition in the library and then write to East Hampshire District Council and tell them what you think … ‘ |
| 8 | Well it just depends if it 's market day she goes to market stays up till two or three in afternoon and then goes to sleep for six about six hours . |
| 9 | Thousands are graded for size , shape and consistency and then strung on leather bootlaces . |
| 10 | The effects of this are most extreme at the poles , which are bathed in light for up to 24 hours a day over a short summer , and then plunged into twilight darkening to permanent night during the long polar winter . |
| 11 | The surface is then flushed with Solvent spray , allowed to dry and then sprayed with Developer . |
| 12 | I do n't particularly see it as compromise because for me it is a method of going forward , if you can agree on something which is a basic principled demand around a particular issue and then pull into action a broader range of people around that . ’ |
| 13 | Before 8pm one of the Jones accompanied Olwyn to wash and change and then get into bed . |
| 14 | Because of a vague feeling of loyalty , a need to repay someone or something who had seemed to walk with me through the burning fiery furnace of my husband 's last illness , I had started now and then to go to church . |
| 15 | He had worked for the same firm for 16 years without working on a Sunday because of his objection to working on a Sunday and his wish to stay at home and then to go to church . |
| 16 | Just , get a bath and then got to bed . |
| 17 | Suppose the suspect had taken the taxi to get rid of Carella , got out at the hospital to confuse matters further , walked around the comer to the terminus and then continued by bus to his original destination ? |
| 18 | The flask arrived at Felixstowe and then travelled by road to Dounreay . |
| 19 | She shrugged , and then giggled in surprise as the rounded shoulders of the spacesuit ascended like blunt-nosed rockets on each side of her helmet . |
| 20 | The man reappeared , picked up something and then moved from sight again . |
| 21 | He went over to the spot where Allen had hidden , ‘ … and then moved from tree to tree until he reached the path about twenty paces ahead . |
| 22 | Lucy gave it a moment , tugged the gown free from underneath , and then moved in silence to the doorway . |
| 23 | Solutions of 5ASA , N-acetyl-5ASA , and N-acetyl-4ASA were made by dissolving the drugs in 0.2 M NaOH , diluting 1 in 10 in L-15 , and then adjusting to pH 7.4 with 1 M HCl . |
| 24 | Apart from the inherent improbability that trained intelligence agents would simply add an armed suitcase bomb tagged for New York-JFK to a pile of international luggage waiting to be loaded in Luqa and then trust to luck that , unescorted , the bomb would get through the baggage-handling and security arrangements of two other major airports and be loaded aboard the target aircraft before the timer triggered an explosion , there remained the problem with the provenance and reliability of the Frankfurt baggage-list that was said to have identified the suitcase in the first place . |
| 25 | If you said well you ca n't apply this time , you may be able to in three years time but pragmatists they like something that they can take away and then put into practice straight away and they can try out . |
| 26 | but we have shaved the bollocks of a bloke in T A , he was a right like Tintin , so we , we pinned him and shaved his bollocks and then put after shave over it . |
| 27 | The forests have been extensively logged and then cleared for cocoa , coffee , rubber and palm oil crops . |
| 28 | In a second season Biscoe visited New Zealand and the Chatham Islands , and then made for South Shetland . |
| 29 | at this point here and going right down to the final A of ANNA and the way you can , you can , cos you 're gon na step in mid way now and you assume that the appropriate sociability has set the rapport has been built and you start the role play by saying thanks very much for that , I now wan na talk about whatever your product is , yeah , and then step into role play that way ? |
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