Example sentences of "and then [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was inclined to think Nicola had invented the whole story , or else been told it and then discovered subsequently that it was a sham . |
| 2 | It involves co-operation between both sides of the body : for instance , as one leg is put into a trouser-leg , the other holds the body upright ; a sweater has to be pulled over the head and then organized so that one 's arms can slide into the sleeves . |
| 3 | That 's what a lot of people do , the , they look once and then turn forward and bang ! |
| 4 | and then turn left and you 're down towards Icing Green , do you know where I mean ? |
| 5 | He allowed her to take the bag and then brushed past and headed for the door . |
| 6 | A few minutes later they had acknowledged Mr Bryant and his daughter outside their house , and then trudged home and stood chatting for some time on the doorstep . |
| 7 | He bowed over her outstretched hand and then left quickly before she had time to gather her wits . |
| 8 | She lay back , exhausted , hearing Comfort leave the room and then speak quickly but very quietly in Italian , presumably to Annunziata . |
| 9 | He may have come to this decision in 1531 or 1532 and then proceeded cautiously because of the fear of opposition both at home and abroad . |
| 10 | They ordered the young women to remove their upper garments and then to bend forward until their foreheads touched the cold sand . |
| 11 | We lay on the brink of its descent and rolled quickly downwards , our faces full of earth and grass one instant and then rotating madly and finally up to the brazen blue sky leaking through the trees . |
| 12 | If you have been really enthusiastic about something and then gone home and thought about it , one of two things usually happens . |
| 13 | He does n't buy the suit and then ask later if it fits and if it is what he wants . |
| 14 | ‘ I went to Co Tyrone , my mother 's county , with the cup all day and then came home and sat at the fire with my wife and talked about the hotel and what had gone on that day . ’ |
| 15 | He buried it again and then went away and realised enough capital to buy the field so that he could claim the treasure . |
| 16 | She sat and rocked him for a while until he felt all right again and then went upstairs and dressed herself in a low-backed , jade green jumpsuit and gold pumps and gold hoop ear-rings , and felt exotic . |
| 17 | The room hummed with an expectant murmur which heightened and then died away when Commander Brian Spittals , followed by Blanche and the head of the Press Bureau , strode out on to the platform . |
| 18 | He glared at me and then walked past and had a sharp look around the office . |
| 19 | The doorbell pealed and Julia shot upstairs from the basement , flung herself through the green baize door and then walked slowly and decorously across the black and white tiled hall . |
| 20 | If the objective function in P1 had been we could have used the formulae ( 3.6 ) for to generate the extra row and then proceed exactly as before . |
| 21 | Most commenced with offices in the main ports of colonies , e.g. Bombay and Cape Town , and then spread inland as settlement took place or a military presence was established . |
| 22 | The idea is to find a molecule that will attach itself to methane and then react so that the methane is converted into a product that is useful as a fuel ( New Scientist , vol 97 , p 441 ) . |
| 23 | Were they touching one another ? she wondered , and then thought bitchily that physical contact would have been hard to avoid , they were sitting so close to one another . |
| 24 | Burglars , I thought , and then thought again as I remembered the threatening phone call . |
| 25 | Gilding , normally done by taking powered gold mixed with mercury to form an amalgam , was painted onto the surface and then heated so as to drive off the mercury . |
| 26 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 27 | The probability is low for it to move a long distance at more than the speed of light , but it can go faster than light for just far enough to get out of the black hole , and then go slower than light . |
| 28 | A spokesman for the Amazonian Kayapo Indians , Payacan , says that scientists will be welcome if they can demonstrate that their activities will bring benefits to the Indians , but he adds that : " lots of scientists just come and ask and ask and ask and then go away and we never hear about their results " . |
| 29 | I do n't buy it and then go home and play it , because I 'm not going to get anything from it at home , but at 2am , after a gig in Oslo or Munich or Berlin , it sounds damned good . |
| 30 | I I could never I never knew anybody personally because er you know you just used to go work and then go home and that was it . |