Example sentences of "and then [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that was a year , but , er because you was n't a bound apprentice , when trade fell off in the winter , and it fell off drastically in the winter , and then built up for Easter , when everyone in those days bought new clothes . |
| 2 | Sometimes he was too sick to eat anything all day , but other days he would sleep for a while and then get up for a meal . |
| 3 | ‘ Shove 'em in t'manger , ’ Jonadab directed , ‘ and then get off for thi dinner . ’ |
| 4 | He put his few clothes in a neat pile on the bed and then looked round for something in which to carry them . |
| 5 | Scotland 's plight is such that Clyde 's goalkeeper , Scott Howie , will play against the Maltese in the afternoon ( the game has a 1.30pm kick-off ) and then turn out for Clyde in their Second Division match with Queen of the South at Douglas Park at 7.30pm . |
| 6 | He probably worked on all his victims this way — softening them up , earning their trust and then moving in for the kill . |
| 7 | Lucy said , clambering to her feet and then looking around for anywhere that she might have missed . |
| 8 | Ministers should draw up a budget and then pack up for the year . |
| 9 | Bates trailed 3–0 in the final set against Black , his doubles partner this week , and went to the front for the first time in the match when he broke for 6–5 and then served out for victory . |
| 10 | Left the daddy 's list with Mr Moore ( of Moore 's Models ) and then went off for a bit of a stroll around . |
| 11 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 12 | I mean , you do n't get down to things and then break off for refreshments , do you ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Boom , Boom , ’ says the boogieman , as he coolly shoots his lady down , rams her into his car , steers off to his house , gets a bang out of watching her walking the floor , and then settles down for a bit of baby talk . |
| 14 | And when three men turned back just below camp 4 because of bad weather Harry Taylor climbed on … and then set out for the summit on his own . |
| 15 | With a sinking heart she arranged for her things to come up by an outside porter , and then set off for home . |
| 16 | We ate a hearty breakfast and then set off for the moor . |
| 17 | There is a coincidence with Osbern 's story , and it may be that Swegen was present in England when tribute was paid in 1012 , and then set off for the Irish Sea ( thus repeating the possible pattern of 994 – 5 ) only to be shipwrecked , perhaps off the Welsh coast . |
| 18 | Carmichael wanted to avoid the risk of plucking remedies out of the air and then casting round for arguments to support them , which , he said , was the common practice in local authorities . |
| 19 | ‘ My mother will probably have a very genteel fit of hysteria , and my father will mutter something about it being a ‘ damn shame ’ and your not being ‘ the right kind of girl ’ , and then stomp off for a game of golf . |
| 20 | Anyone who seems suitable will receive an informal visit and then come down for a more formal interview . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Then we would probably have a mandatory defence , which we would not duck , and then come back for a third defence against Bruno . ’ |
| 22 | get some shopping done , then have afternoon tea , baby and me and then come back for Grant . |
| 23 | His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates . |
| 24 | He remembered her in the old days , singing at parties for hours and then turning up for rehearsal next day without any sign of strain or tiredness in her voice . |
| 25 | SCUNTHORPE , down to 10 men for more than an hour , equalised , forced extra time and then held out for a second replay . |
| 26 | Erm I er move straight over to er er Graham and then open up for any questions or if anybody wants to say anything from the floor . |
| 27 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 28 | She 's here er , and she put me in a hospital and then going off for something . |
| 29 | The yachts tacked back and forth across the Solent , and then moored up for a sumptuous lunch . |
| 30 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |