Example sentences of "then [verb] [art] second [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is obviously wasteful nonsense for a district nurse needing a new dressing for a patient to have to return to the surgery , tell the doctor what is needed , possibly even draft the prescription for him , get the prescription dispensed by a pharmacist and then make a second visit to the patient to apply the dressing . ’
2 But obviously my plant to whack off hastily and then make the second copy had to be abandoned , because my dick would n't even begin to reach over the plastic strip between me and where the glass started when it was soft .
3 This was followed by a three-year trial period for successful candidates , who had then to sit a second examination ( examen de classement ) .
4 Depending on the replies from them in relation to those that have lapsed we then send a second letter to them saying is there anybody that will take over the scheme , if not , right we we intend to remove the signs from the er from the area and then if there is no reply to this letter within fourteen days we you know we 'll come and remove the signs .
5 Then came the second chorus of ‘ the referee 's a German ’ , only this time it was much louder .
6 ‘ Well , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ then came the second tragedy .
7 The first female is then shot a second time , and as the confused baby attempts to suckle from its dying mother , it too is despatched with a single bullet . ’
8 After a while , if undisturbed , the Aplysia puts its siphon out again , and if it is then prodded a second time , it will show the same withdrawal reflex .
9 ‘ If there were only six stetches in the field and eight ploughs working , the first baiter then put the second baiter and another to open up the furrows and lay the tops , so all the ploughs were employed .
10 She then opened the second case and performed a similar ritual with the .357 and the Charter Arms .22 .
11 That fetched the two from West , the queen from dummy and the ace from East , who then leads a second spade — the nine .
12 He then served a second curacy in Drumglass Parish , Dungannon .
13 The first creates a CLI command file that lists the line to a file and then calls the second procedure which cleans it up and uses it as redirected input before exiting .
14 Then release the second key and finally release the Ctrl or Alt key .
15 Let this dry for 24 hours , then apply a second coat of unadulterated polyurethane .
16 Start by drawing a straight line 50cm from the principal wall , then strike a second line at right-angles to this .
17 You then ask the second child to write down any figures for the second row and you immediately write the third row .
18 Then take a second card from the middle pile and place it on the other outside pile .
19 Here they were to turn left , then take the second right and go about a kilometre to a building site where Ruggiero Miletti was waiting , unable to move because of his bad leg .
20 In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with .
21 From its position in the capital ( then considered the Second City of the Empire ) and from the sheer size of the market , coupled with the technological advances of the steam age , Guinness was , by 1800 , well positioned to take its first tentative step onto the world stage .
22 Then comes the second part of the double whammy — after say two years BA would announce that it was withdrawing from Belfast City Airport in order to consolidate their operations at Belfast International whose superior facilities interface more readily with their corporate image ( or similar doublespeak ) .
23 Because I think there has been a trend , has there not , in recent years where people tend to take a main holiday perhaps on the continent and then have a second holiday in this country .
24 The first approach is to perform syntactic analysis first then have a second pass convert the syntactic tree to a semantic representation .
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