Example sentences of "and then [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another had kept a continual eye on the grain trade by serving in a Red Army supply regiment and then managing a state grain-collecting centre . |
| 2 | Conversely , when a war was being concluded and there was a prospect of reductions in the size of the army , many officers of the younger regiments attempted to avoid reduction to half-pay by trying their interest with a politician , but the practice of transferring to a new regiment to accelerate promotion , and then regaining a place in an old one while retaining the rank already gained , demanded very good political connections . |
| 3 | Karamanlis , 83 , had presided over Greece 's return to democracy in 1974 , holding office as Prime Minister until 1980 and then serving a term as President from 1980 to 1985 . |
| 4 | The purchaser 's lawyers will usually proceed by gathering all information already given to the purchaser and then issuing an information questionnaire to the vendor similar to that set out in Appendix II . |
| 5 | The bodies and researchers which have considered the problem of access to lawyers all conclude that cost has a deterrent effect on seeking legal advice initially and then pursuing a claim . |
| 6 | It certainly is n't simply a case of just reading up on the reviews , playing around with a couple of the likely programs and then buying a system or two and expecting peace , harmony and perfect publications to be the end result ! |
| 7 | It is possible to get cheaper tickets but you risk landing at 3am and then facing an hour or more coach journey culminating in a vagrancy charge because all the hotels are shut . |
| 8 | The old days of taking on board every issue and then establishing a committee to handle it can not continue . |
| 9 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 10 | This is accomplished by first differentiating the freewheeling current signal and then using a comparator to find the time instants at which there is 110 change of current . |
| 11 | Such considerations lead to the idea that the way non-words are read is by first dividing them up into their graphemes ( CHOOPH-CH + OO + PH or SLOATCH — S + L + OA + TCH ) and then using a table of grapheme-phoneme correspondence rules to find the appropriate phoneme for each grapheme . |
| 12 | Which involved going to evening classes and er then back to work and this involved nights regular , so it was a bit a bit of a dash , sleeping , evening class and then catching a bus which the first one , nine o'clock and to the colliery and starting . |
| 13 | FINN HARPS keeper Chris Whelton scored two penalties in a thrilling 4-3 victory over Athol , a week after saving a penalty and then converting a spot kick in a 4-1 win over the same opponents . |
| 14 | Having a vehicle break down and then struggling a mile down that pot-holed strip of mud you call a road is n't my idea of fun , I can tell you ! ’ |
| 15 | One witness described seeing a plume of moke and a ball of fire and then seeing a body on the road . |
| 16 | He was in a curiously elegiac mood , moving soft on silken feet in deference to the sadness in the place , now and then touching a tree or a still-surviving piece of stone in a placating greeting , apparently apologising for his presence . |
| 17 | Du n no I , there 's a friend of mine and I 'm selling it in the pa have to advertise in the paper as well so that money 's going to it , I 've made , I 'm having a word with the bank manager for business facilities and then opening an account with him at the bank to er basically get some extra , a business account going which I do n't touch , er I need to get credit facilities done on the bank , accounts and stuff , dad 's gon na look through it completely with me and work everything out , but for the next six , seven weeks I 'll be too busy with the school work to really concentrate on it , cos exams start at seven weeks time now |
| 18 | The whole purpose of a conference is about disagreeing with each other and then agreeing a statement as a compromise for whatever is reached at the end of the day . |
| 19 | ‘ Or do you , perhaps , get your pleasure at a distance , by putting your sexuality on display and then treating a man who reacts to it as if he were a leper ? ’ |
| 20 | this prevents civilians from becoming far too powerful and then becoming a dictatorship . |
| 21 | The next 70 years or so are spent sorting out this confusion , deciding first what a face is and then putting a name to it in whatever language comes to hand — be it Thai or Zuni or Swahili or Spanish — or any of the other 4,000 odd languages that the world currently offers . |
| 22 | No the days were playing Shrewsbury Town at home — going in 2–0 down at half time — getting back to 2–2 , hitting the f**king post and then conceeding a goal in the last 5 minutes . |
| 23 | Establish a routine by calling the dog 's name , and then giving a set number of blows on the whistle . |
| 24 | Going into the butcher 's shop and asking ‘ You got some bones for the dog ? ’ and then making a pot of soup … |
| 25 | We make an indirect observation by first making a direct observation of a sign , and then making an inference from that to what we believe the sign signifies . |
| 26 | Paisley reacted quickly by calling a rally in the Ulster Hall and then leading a march to the City Hall to protest ‘ at the lying eulogies now being paid to the Roman antichrist by non-Romanist Church leaders in defiance of their own historic creeds ’ . |
| 27 | He contradicted himself within his own question by saying that we have no constitutional ideas and then identifying an area on which we are currently consulting with a view to making constitutional changes . |
| 28 | If you feel adventurous , try sailing backwards and then doing a nose sink . |
| 29 | Er and the point about not offering a solution , C P R E clearly has in in erm taking to go on to talk about the subsequent parts of policy H one and H two , the County Council 's figures and then doing an analysis of those in relation to the new settlement , but I appreciate chairman that erm we 'll come back to that . |
| 30 | I 'm looking forward to having summat to eat , and then having a lie down . |