Example sentences of "then [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some groups appreciate a formal input in lecture form but other methods may be used e.g. asking participants to reflect on language they would need when holidaying or living in a country such as Greece or China , and then drawing out the theory from the discussion . |
| 2 | Caroline tugged at the thin straps that held the red silk up over the generous curve of her breasts , then smoothed down the skirt as if her touch might somehow magically make it extend beyond her thighs . |
| 3 | From that we can then build up the job spec , you know the training needs like the , a little example we and then we can look at competency . |
| 4 | Check that your new box position is level , then chip out the plaster and masonry with hammer and steel chisel or bolster |
| 5 | She sipped , blinked , and grinned , then spooned up every bit , wiping the bowl clean with some freshly baked bread that the barman handed her . |
| 6 | I was manhandled to my feet , unchained , then led down a flight of steps , lit by bare bulbs , to the inner section . |
| 7 | She 's acting more naturally to the gusts , leaning out and then easing out the sheet . |
| 8 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
| 9 | We went on forward into a narrow passage beside yards of hot hammering engine of more than head height , throbbingly painful to the senses , and then passed over a coupling into another engine , even longer , even noisier , even hotter , the very stuff of hell . |
| 10 | Prepare the ground as already described , then make up a mix of 1 cement to 5 sand , with a minimum of water . |
| 11 | Then make up a minimum of 650 calories ( more , if you are allowing yourself between 1,000 and 1,500 a day ) from Fibre-Filler ( see page 65 ) and the meals on the F-Plan menus . |
| 12 | As the car then goes down the line , past various work stations , all the components are fitted to the car in turn . |
| 13 | Well just carry stitches and then bring in a bit and then double up . |
| 14 | Dawn ( 4.8 ) made a symmetrical pattern of squares with pegs , then filled in the rest of the board , working across and down , always putting in a peg next to one already there but the colours were haphazard . |
| 15 | In the passage , she stumbled and almost fell , then flung back the door to the bedroom . |
| 16 | She hisses her disapproval , then snatches up the denims , and digs the key from one of the pockets . |
| 17 | Losses would be twice as high if energy producers imposed a carbon tax and kept the revenues for themselves , or if a tax were levied by a world agency which then shared out the revenue in proportion to each region 's population . |
| 18 | She looked at me and put her finger to her lips , then got out the broom and began to sweep up the crumbs . |
| 19 | This chapter illustrates some attractors : these static illustrations are a poor substitute for watching the trajectories approach and then wind around the attractor , and for following the sequence of bifurcations ( changes in type of attractor ) as a parameter is changed . |
| 20 | If you then pick up a bonus , because the team could n't answer it maybe , er , you will get a bonus for your team . |
| 21 | From Baden , those in a hurry might take the motorway east to the outskirts of Zurich , then pick up the northbound motorway , carrying on through Jestetten . |
| 22 | Then pick up the pace to within 20 to 30 seconds per mile of your 10K race pace and hold that for seven minutes . |
| 23 | Now , the cheats amongst us ( like me ) will discover that you can import graphics into the Cel editor , and will quickly come to the conclusion that very lifelike images can be formed by using a scanner to scan individual frames from a film , and then pick out the bits they want and place them on cels to form a small animated sequence . |
| 24 | It is as if surveyors had worked out what they were going to do and then laid out the plan on the landscape , ignoring the difficult topography of the area . |
| 25 | Back again to the fundamental question of whether or not he was idle , he worried at it like a terrier , then laid down a challenge . |
| 26 | Our aim is first to determine the variation of electric field as a function of radius and then to work out the capacitance per unit length . |
| 27 | Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore . |
| 28 | The age-old method of casting bells was to make a clay mould of the inside shape of the bell , then build up a layer of beeswax round it to the shape and thickness of the finished bell . |
| 29 | He ordered a cloak to be draped and tied round the body which was then slung over a horse and they continued on their way to the Abbey of Holy Rood . |
| 30 | Lighting the gas , she secured the kettle within the rails which would hold it in place , then snatched up the dishcloth . |