Example sentences of "then [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you must use a light to illuminate your indicators then make it a dull , red one . |
| 2 | AOPA was actively involved throughout the campaign to save West Malling and has found that in several instances residents in the neighbourhoods of airfields have been opposed to flying , but when they were made aware of the horrors of what the possible alternatives would be , they then realised what a valuable green and friendly asset a local airfield could be . |
| 3 | Mr Ken Currie of the Energy Technology Support Unit at Harwell will then describe what the rich world could do to mitigate the effects . |
| 4 | You will then know what a healthy weight-loss diet is for you and be able to follow this for a further two weeks , or longer if necessary . |
| 5 | Annunziata , who had accepted the hug , made Julia get back into bed and then told her the whole story . |
| 6 | The owner then swapped me the beautiful picture with which he had boarded his shed window . |
| 7 | She then shows me the various x-rays , and we discuss the discharge arrangements . |
| 8 | Let her eat lunch and then give her a mild tranquilliser . |
| 9 | Then give her a definite reason for the necessity of an early departure ( not just general ‘ busyness ’ ) . |
| 10 | So if you would usually start the programme with the address from the mayor at 9.30am , consider having the mayor speak at a breakfast at 8am and then give everyone a two-hour break from 11am to have a sight-seeing walk or shopping session before returning for lunch . |
| 11 | Then give it a short twist . |
| 12 | And when you go to your antenatal clinic , they just look at you and look at your finger to see if you 've got a ring on , and then give you a dirty look , and I think , Oh , get lost . |
| 13 | Then Gina began to laugh , looking at the absurdity of it all , and he was startled for a moment , then allowed himself a cautious smile which spread until they were both shaking with relief , an incongruous couple with Gina bulky in Hugh 's shabby old jacket , and Arthur in a brand-new sheepskin coat over his suit . |
| 14 | Werner placed the attache case beside the chair then poured himself a stiff Scotch from the crystal decanter on the sideboard . |
| 15 | She went in , hunted through the cupboards until she found everything she needed , then cooked herself a large meal . |
| 16 | In she comes for her pension , takes it without a by-your-leave then calls me a bloody wog and tells me to go home to where I come from . ’ |
| 17 | As she hitched up the fox fur draped about her neck , she was tempted now and then to give them a regal wave but decided that to sit back in dignified hauteur was more fitting to her role . |
| 18 | The researchers then set themselves the unenviable task of positioning 48 aphids about 1 cm away from the leaves of both the wild and cultivated plants , making sure that the insects were pointing towards the leaves . |
| 19 | But in those general objectives , we then set ourselves the top ten , top ten objectives and how we are going to actually action those objectives er to er move forward and if they were achieved , we thought if we achieved those ten objectives and that 's going to take time and as I say it 's a dynamic plan , it 's going to take two , three years to achieve and if we achieve those objectives then we will have achieved our own rule er our overall mission . |
| 20 | Once Clive was in the hypnotic state on this occasion , I asked him to visualize going up to someone he knew slightly , taking a few deep breaths and then asking them a simple question — ‘ Could you please tell me the time ? ’ or ‘ Do you know the way to such-and-such a street ? ’ |
| 21 | And erm Y equals X squared , and that 's Y and that 's an X. Then turn it the other way up to get X equals Y squared , and now that 's the Y and this is the X. |
| 22 | He leaned forward and slipped a hand into Nicola 's jacket pockets , then gave her a brief look of apology . |
| 23 | He spun her to him , then gave her a swift , hard kiss on her mouth . |
| 24 | He then gave me a slight shock by lapsing into a brief sort of reverie , and saying that if one had ever felt like ‘ murdering someone ’ , one could never do anything about it . |
| 25 | One of the men then gave me a perfunctory glance at a warrant before entering the house and walking up the stairs . |
| 26 | ‘ At that Mr Nicholas slapped my face hard then gave me a solid punch to the jaw . ’ |
| 27 | They made me very welcome , then gave me a clean towel and showed me the showers . |
| 28 | The importance of being able to reciprocate gifts in kind is also illustrated by case study data from Pahl 's study on household work strategies on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent , in which one man who was long-term unemployed had been helping an uncle to decorate his house , and how the uncle then gave him a large piece of meat . |
| 29 | Luke came into view and put his arms round the woman ; he smoothed her hair with one hand , then gave it a little tug — reassurance , a reminder : I love you . |
| 30 | Another well known crossover is the snake cable , where you simply cross the stitches one way , knit a few rows then cross them the other way . |