Example sentences of "and then [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It examines the conditions under which a voting equilibrium exists ; and then goes on to representative democracy . |
| 2 | But Roxy er Roxy that was from his new C D Midnight Postcards and er he 's going to be at Nottingham 's Theatre Royal March the twenty eighth next year in Alfie , coming well ahead of it to tell us about it , and that 's going to be a blockbuster I think next year , and then goes on to Los Angeles . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah ! ’ she says , and then goes over to the other side of the shop . |
| 4 | and then goes in to her . |
| 5 | A man who mixes a cocktail of vitamins and sleeping pills to knock out Little Liz 's predecessor after she had gone off her oats and then crawls around under the bedclothes with a speculum and a flashlight . |
| 6 | He sets down the Kitchens ' salami-free , chicken-free , beef-free , pastrami-free , rib-free order , with a characteristic ‘ Enjoy ! ’ and then sits down with them at their table and lights up a cigarette . |
| 7 | In distinctive display flight flaps upwards at a steep angle and then glides down with wings scarcely upraised . |
| 8 | The air , thus refreshed , rises to the top of the nest and then circulates back down other passageways . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The metal yields easily at first , hardens somewhat and then breaks off in a brittle fashion . |
| 11 | I never imagined myself doing anything but acting , ’ she says with a wide grin and then breaks in to a quick burst of singing : ‘ There 's no business like show business … ’ |
| 12 | Mr McNeill said he has had been reading the Belfast Telegraph for years and enjoys doing the crossword first , perusing the television viewing and then gets around to reading the news . |
| 13 | Back in Pinjarra the old , semi-conscious aboriginal groans , and then lapses back into sleep ; another fringe dweller out for the count . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Tests show that , after a slow beginning , availability of the nutrients rises to a peak in about 80 days and then tails off with the potash being held late , when it is needed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Andy 's face pops up briefly and then disappears back into the bag . |
| 18 | He finishes after a bit and then jumps up on the window ledge . |
| 19 | As firms set prices alternately over consecutive periods , price falls by small steps from the upper limit of the interval until it reaches the lower limit and then jumps back to the upper limit and the cycle begins again . |
| 20 | This first capacitor charges to the peaks of the rectified sinewave potential during forward intervals but discharges somewhat through the load during reverse intervals as the rectified e.m.f. first falls from its peak value and then rises back to the potential difference retained on the capacitor . |
| 21 | The ‘ passion ’ of the family is Mrs Miniver , A Blenheim Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who makes an intense fuss of all visitors when they first arrive , and then slopes off to her chair to continue an interrupted sleep ! |
| 22 | Where Mr Winchester 's cross-Pacific connections become less sure is when they become tangible and man-made : the optical-fibre telephone cable that snakes beneath the Pacific from California to Hawaii and then branches out to Japan and Guam ; the AsiaSat satellite and its fellow ‘ birds ’ , sitting on the equator to bounce across Asia the telephone calls of businessmen and the television dramas of Hollywood ; the new Boeing 747–400 , able to fly non-stop from Sydney to Los Angeles ; and , odd as it seems , the Macintosh computer . |
| 23 | Best song of the night though , is the bitter ‘ High As I Kite ’ which builds via a tense three minutes , drops out and then comes back like an annoyed shop customer , to have another go . |
| 24 | Sam starts humming the riff from ‘ Caroline ’ with a fondness that nine years ' respite should have erased , and then snaps back into historical mode . |
| 25 | The hierarchy begins with mathematics , and then moves up through astronomy , physics , chemistry and biology to sociology at the top . |
| 26 | The museum extends to about twenty rooms on two floors , and the visit starts with a room of ancient weaponry and then moves on to rooms that contain sacred parchments and vestments — some with designs from the school of Leonardo — and lace . |
| 27 | Another is the dialectic , a pattern of movement which proceeds from a starting-point ( the thesis ) to another which stands over against it in opposition or contradiction ( the antithesis ) , and then moves on to a third stage in which the two are reconciled and reintegrated on a higher level ( the synthesis ) . |
| 28 | Each generation in the Church makes its own effort and then hands over to those who follow . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | From here the path follows the river bank downstream and then heads back into the forest and away from the river before crossing a burn . |