Example sentences of "and then [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the sun rose we did all the necessary and then noticed this cat only had one eye . |
| 2 | Karsten Schubert is exhibiting new paintings by Keith Coventry ( 2 July-1 August ) , and Francis Graham Dixon shows eight recent table sculptures by Brian Wall ( to 2 August ) , who worked as Barbara Hepworth 's assistant from 1955–60 and then left this country in 1969 to go to Berkeley 's University of California where he is now Professor of Art . |
| 3 | They 've given her something and she , she had to put this stuff on her hair , had to take a trip to the hairdresser and he said to the hairdresser comb my hair first and then put this stuff on and wait for a fortnight and it did come a little lighter , but it was n't much |
| 4 | The authors ' approach is to examine what native speakers do when they ‘ make conversation ’ , and then to use this information as the basis for more than eighty tasks and activities . |
| 5 | During the dance the other bees can smell her scent and then use this knowledge in finding the food . |
| 6 | It would dearly like ( as one railway manufacturer has proposed ) to rip the diesel engines out of an existing HST and replace them with electric engines , and then use this train for tests . |
| 7 | With modern designs , the correct method is to make the descent with some forward speed and then use this speed to flare like an aircraft , still holding a negative pitch setting ( Fig. 8.3 ) . |
| 8 | The first stage in calculating the pull-out torque is to establish a suitable model for the phase circuits and then use this model to find how the phase current varies with stepping rate . |
| 9 | This social context is not one where a body of intellectuals think up resolutions to an objectively defined urban crisis and then make this knowledge available to the wide church of policy makers and practitioners in the best enlightenment spirit . |
| 10 | Generally he seems to have dealt with those who came to him with requests by saying that he would do something for them , and then repeating this promise whenever he had to , postponing action for as long as possible . |
| 11 | Using an uncontrolled study to report a reduction in referrals from general practice in the year after introduction of the guidelines and then to ascribe this drop to the guidelines themselves is somewhat naive . |
| 12 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 13 | That is , they use light energy to split water , and extract hydrogen ; and then combine this hydrogen with ( low-energy ) carbon dioxide to produce high-energy organic molecules : molecules which in turn act as fuel and as the raw material from which is fashioned almost all living flesh , both animal and plant . |
| 14 | He worked out where The Bar was on his maps , and then checked this perspective against the actual view — from where he saw the city it looked like The Bar was right in the middle of it , not hidden away at all like it was on the map . |
| 15 | The normal method of analysing this strange attractor is to construct a model which has the properties we like to think ( and do think ) that the actual Lorenz system has , and then to reduce this model to a one-dimensional mapping of an interval by " factoring out " the contracting direction { 17,27,35 } . |
| 16 | It would be useless to pretend that identity of non-meanings , if it is to make sense , ought to be so explicable and then criticise this idea on the grounds that it can not be so explained . |
| 17 | And then to have this bastard remix album … ’ |
| 18 | Unless the system tablespace is to be used by this account then the ORACLE database administrator should create a new tablespace ( using the size guidelines presented in section 2.2.1 ) and then link this tablespace to the new user by entering the following SQL*Plus commands : |
| 19 | By learning to produce muscular tension through tensing exercises and then releasing this tension , you will gradually find it is possible to release the physical tension from everyday stress in the same way , letting go . |
| 20 | That 's and he could n't and then mount this sort of operation . |