Example sentences of "then [verb] [pers pn] [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 | Annunziata , who had accepted the hug , made Julia get back into bed and then told her the whole story . |
| 3 | The owner then swapped me the beautiful picture with which he had boarded his shed window . |
| 4 | She then shows me the various x-rays , and we discuss the discharge arrangements . |
| 5 | Let her eat lunch and then give her a mild tranquilliser . |
| 6 | Then give her a definite reason for the necessity of an early departure ( not just general ‘ busyness ’ ) . |
| 7 | Then give it a short twist . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On these cassettes you will hear the voice of the hypnotherapist , who will help you to achieve the desired state , then give you the same suggestions that he or she would make if you were in the consulting room ; finally , the hypnotherapist will wake you up again . |
| 10 | If you then get it a second time you will then possibly have an allergic reaction to the horse serum . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? ’ |
| 14 | 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. |
| 15 | He leaned forward and slipped a hand into Nicola 's jacket pockets , then gave her a brief look of apology . |
| 16 | He spun her to him , then gave her a swift , hard kiss on her mouth . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One of the men then gave me a perfunctory glance at a warrant before entering the house and walking up the stairs . |
| 19 | ‘ At that Mr Nicholas slapped my face hard then gave me a solid punch to the jaw . ’ |
| 20 | They made me very welcome , then gave me a clean towel and showed me the showers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He then gives them the following details . |
| 25 | The band maximum then gives us the vertical ionization energy , and the band origin gives the adiabatic ionization energy . |
| 26 | So Vecchi hi-tails it out to the sanatorium , hangs around until the great man and Rico leave then gives it a few more minutes before walking in and giving Connie another grilling . |