Example sentences of "then [verb] [pron] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minimum investment is £1,000 and the firm will try to help investors who wish to sell under five years , though they then lose their tax relief under the BES regulations . |
| 2 | Dalgliesh began rapidly but methodically to clear his desk , then checked his murder bag . |
| 3 | Gorbachev then announced his resignation offer because " 70 per cent of the speakers are criticizing me , not from a personal point of view but on behalf of the people " . |
| 4 | I position my head above her backside and let some spit fall down onto where the knuckle is caught on the ring of muscle , then push my finger filly into her . |
| 5 | ‘ The staff at the Hillcrest then invited my husband Bill and myself to sit down and have a special anniversary dinner — I felt very glamorous indeed ! ’ |
| 6 | Owers helped Sunderland beat Port Vale at the beginning of their Cup run , but was substituted and then aggravated his groin trouble in the following 6–2 home win over Millwall in mid January . |
| 7 | You then configure your DOS app to print to an Epson dot-matrix printer , turn Fax Capture on , start printing and turn Fax Capture off . |
| 8 | Better still , if you are anything of an artist , is then to transpose your scale plan to a three-dimensional drawing , preferably coloured , showing it as it will be in three or four years " time when the perennial plants are mature . |
| 9 | Carr , to his credit , never stopped coming forward and he caused Wharton many problems until the eighth round , but the Yorkshireman then delighted his home town supporters by producing the kind of punching power they expected of him . |
| 10 | So Mrs the court will endorse your licence that means that the fact that you have these offenses er against your record now will be entered onto on your driving licence by the court , the court will then send your driving licence to the driving licence centre at Swansea so that they can er also record on your driving record . |
| 11 | If you feel your workplace is causing you to suffer ill-health effects , then notify your line management . |
| 12 | All snakes prefer to retreat from predators as quickly as possible , but if cornered will then use their lightning strike as a form of protection . |
| 13 | An overseas bank then raises its interest rate to attract ( Euro ) sterling deposits . |
| 14 | Intercept scud missiles and jet attacks with your patriots ; then guide your Tomahawk missile through enemy Ack Ack fire on a search and destroy mission . |
| 15 | And then get your police sergeant . |
| 16 | Ahmad Delo then began his recruiting drive among travelling Chaddians who were passing through Kufra . |
| 17 | He then began his letter writing campaign . |
| 18 | She then discovered her engineer husband had run up thousands of pounds in debts and had tried to end his life a month before . |
| 19 | And then credited your phone bill with it . |
| 20 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 21 | So then fill your car tank at the most expensive petrol station in town . |
| 22 | You then compare your sales performance in the two areas — usually in terms of the percentage change on the previous years — and you have a measure of which campaign is the more successful . |
| 23 | It can be extremely frustrating spending many hours looking for a home , finding one you like and that you can afford , and then having your mortgage application turned down . |
| 24 | If the company wins its franchise back in 1992 , and then trebles its share price by mid 1993 , their stake will expand to 15 per cent . |
| 25 | She watched the barb strike home , then delivered her parting shot . |
| 26 | Then contact your electricity company , and finally the Office of Electricity Regulation ( OFFER ) , whose phone number and address are on your bill . |
| 27 | Each set-top decoder would then have its Macrovision-component circuitry individually addressed and activated through the network 's addressable access control system . |
| 28 | If this , this , this is Windows , you should be able to open a window into Setup Dot T X T and then resume your installation procedure where you left off . |
| 29 | He listened to Blanche 's nervous laugh as she agreed a rendezvous but then saw her brow wrinkle as she replaced the receiver . |
| 30 | Folly grabbed a pillow from behind her and threw it at Luke , then saw his face change with sudden desire as the sheet slipped down to expose her breasts . |