Example sentences of "then [verb] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 2 | Pray for an opportunity to speak to them ( and then look out for the opportunity during the week ) . |
| 3 | Fitzgerald then served out for the set to turn the match into a real struggle , or so we thought , but Grabb and McEnroe stepped up a gear midway through the fourth set to take control . |
| 4 | He probably worked on all his victims this way — softening them up , earning their trust and then moving in for the kill . |
| 5 | Curbishley then stepped up for the intermediate girls ' 300 metres hurdles and proceeded to win by 25 metres in a time of 43.9 secs , 1.6 seconds inside the Division Five record . |
| 6 | Ministers should draw up a budget and then pack up for the year . |
| 7 | And when three men turned back just below camp 4 because of bad weather Harry Taylor climbed on … and then set out for the summit on his own . |
| 8 | We ate a hearty breakfast and then set off for the moor . |
| 9 | I nip down to Engineering and borrow a remote ( must keep tabs on things in London ) , then set off for the circus . |
| 10 | There is a coincidence with Osbern 's story , and it may be that Swegen was present in England when tribute was paid in 1012 , and then set off for the Irish Sea ( thus repeating the possible pattern of 994 – 5 ) only to be shipwrecked , perhaps off the Welsh coast . |
| 11 | He played only once in that series but was then brought back for the rubber in India and made a big impact , so that when he had Steele 's wicket at Headingley he chalked up his hundredth Test wicket in the record time of two years 144 days . |
| 12 | I hesitated , then went back for the indigo wrap . |
| 13 | She pushed at the curl , then reached down for the shoulder-bag that lay at her feet and dug out an ebony hair pick . |
| 14 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 15 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 16 | Sympathetic murmurs greet this delicate reference to her own spinsterhood , and the hunters then move in for the kill . |
| 17 | The latter comes in only when this mechanism is no longer operative , when it fails to apply , and the role of the preposition is then to make up for the inoperative movement of incidence … |
| 18 | He then stood up for the sentence , his hands on the dock rail . |