Example sentences of "then [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Copy the formula from your spreadsheet and then paste it into Word for Windows . |
| 2 | Germany had by then passed her in pig-iron and steel production and the United States could out-produce her in coal and iron ore as well . |
| 3 | He took a few gulps , then passed it to Philip . |
| 4 | Duncan read the scrawl , then passed it to Myeloski . |
| 5 | One night we had sat up late while Mum and Dad were at The Golden Cup and had cut up old Christmas decorations into tiny squares and diamonds and then hidden them in envelopes . |
| 6 | Johnson and Thornley devised a complex crop growth model incorporating leaf area expansion and senescence , and they then applied it to grass growth . |
| 7 | Here well-dressed factory representatives show up once a week and sell their goods at 30 per cent discount to wholesalers who then sell them to people like Marta — but not before a hard haggle for the best deal . |
| 8 | Er now then bring it on Friday and show it to G to Granville . |
| 9 | Accordingly , he ‘ did up ’ the car ( then worth £20 ) at a cost of £85 and then sold it for £100 . |
| 10 | ‘ 'T WAS stamped with your father 's seal , and I just accepted it — and then flung myself into battle after battle , trying to forget you , never knowing why you continued to haunt me , until I thought you had betrayed me . ’ |
| 11 | Chris Broad looked set for a good knock as he crashed the first four of the day … but Gloucestershire then got themselves into trouble against the bowling of Gordon Harris … |
| 12 | → If you took a dozen sheets of clear cellophane , drew around a dozen different guitar designs , including Strat , PRS , Ibanez , Jackson and various others , then laid them on top of one another , you 'd be surprised at how little difference there actually is between them . |
| 13 | When we grouped the sectors approximately into local government districts and then ranked them on density of oil workers , this ranking coincided with that based on data for offshore workers in the 1981 census , suggesting that our data was not affected by geographic bias . |
| 14 | Rindt then crashed it in practice for the Canadian race and flatly refused to drive it again . |
| 15 | He then entered himself at Lincoln 's Inn , and , after being called to the bar in 1789 , began to practise on the northern circuit . |
| 16 | Highbury boss Graham said afterwards : ‘ He first picked up the injury against Nottingham Forest , then aggravated it with England and he 's aggravated it again . |
| 17 | There they are able to make large fertiliser-based explosives unnoticed and then transport them into east London . |
| 18 | They calculated these standardized mortality rates for each cause of death , and then used them as weights in the allocation formula : areas with higher death rates from a particular disease got more money to treat that disease . |
| 19 | He then stopped himself in mid-sentence and claimed he had been joking . |
| 20 | And he had pigs ' eyes , was all that she could think as he said , ‘ Let me call you back , ’ into the phone and then cradled it before standing and , still holding her arm and not much caring about how it would hurt , moving to close the office door . |
| 21 | Roy Strait said he heard at least two men as they administered sleeping pills to the film star — then smothered her to death . |
| 22 | Louis Maddox kept the globes suspended for a little longer , then caught them in turn , letting their brilliance fade . |
| 23 | One idea of the well-known chef Robert Carrier is to hard boil eggs , cut them lengthways , and then decorate them in order to make animals ’ faces . |
| 24 | Romania would import Iranian oil via its port of Constanza and then process it in refineries specially built for the purpose . |
| 25 | He moulds the ash frame with boiling water , then covers it with calico waterproofed with bitumen , tar and linseed oil . |
| 26 | He was granted bail and then discharged himself from hospital . |
| 27 | Staff from the animal charity worked alongside Darlington firefighters and a vet to sedate the terrified animal , then winch it above ground . |
| 28 | Every single dog , when the record comes up , has got a field headed main use and then says something like guide dog , guard dog , rabbiting or whatever it is . |
| 29 | Reddy employed the same technique as Johansson to arrive at the least expensive energy — first estimating needs , then filling them through sources of power and energy efficiency , starting with the cheapest method , and when that was used as fully as possible , moving to the next cheapest . |
| 30 | ‘ The American way of doing things is to have an idea and then persuade someone to back it . |