Example sentences of "then [verb] [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She then draped it with vivid red silk , secured in place with a glue gun . |
| 2 | He 'd lied about Tara , lied about Nicola Schreider … assured her she was n't his type then pursued her with consummate skill until his ego was satisfied that she was ripe for seduction … |
| 3 | When inserting posts or stakes into the ground for use as fence supports , good rigidity can be ensured by inserting the post through the centre of a four-litre plastic ice cream carton , then filling it with concrete mix . |
| 4 | For example , you can form a curve in a stalk by positioning it in the required shape and then securing it with tiny pieces of tape for the first couple of days of pressing . |
| 5 | I made two ruler from Tufnol ( 24x1–1/2x1/2in ) , then joined them with two brass strips , allowing about 1 in of play between the rulers . |
| 6 | You then face it with another wardrobe , or if not a wardrobe you 'll face it with something like a chest of drawers and the and put a c er er a wrapper over that and then upside down on top of that th there would be a dressing table , and they would face in . |
| 7 | Ruth enquired politely , with her head in the basin as Gloria washed her hair , then rinsed it with another jug full of water . |
| 8 | He then showed her with great pride some utterly appalling objects which were used to persuade customers to buy their products . |
| 9 | Taking Jane Rowe 's Children Who Wait study ( 1973 ) he then compares it with another American study ( Goldstein et al . , |
| 10 | He would make me look at pictures and then reproduce them with coloured pencils , or else ask me to rotate a figure mentally a certain number of degrees around a given perpendicular before attempting to redraw it . |
| 11 | He began early , in Bangkok and then Dubai , had a week 's work-out with David Leadbetter in Orlando and then followed it with four straight tournaments coming into the Masters . |
| 12 | Think about these points in the story and then discuss them with other people . |
| 13 | This time they rested on her shoulders , then pulled her with gentle and insistent strength into the wall of his chest . |
| 14 | He then grabbed me with one hand and grabbed my steering wheel with the other . |
| 15 | Dennis shook his head , then tapped it with two fingers . |
| 16 | Not until after the last Ice Age had remodelled the valleys north of the plain , overdeepening them , then damming them with morainic debris to form the great lakes of Maggiore , Como and Garda , did man evolve to the point where he left a permanent imprint on the landscape . |
| 17 | In response , Heraclius " took off his purple … then went he with naked feet and took the Cross , praising God with the shedding of tears " . |
| 18 | The latter can be cone very neatly by drilling a small hole then enlarging it with one of the conical sheet metal drills . |
| 19 | Then try it with thirty six . |
| 20 | And then try it with thirty six . |
| 21 | Then try it with twenty four of them . |
| 22 | Okay so try it with twelve first of all and then try it with twenty four |
| 23 | It 's no good to produce neatly cut panels then spoil them with distorted sewing , so the very first concern must be to understand the adjustments for thread tension . |
| 24 | This is a stylistic device to which Housman quite often and very effectively resorts : make an exquisitely turned phrase , or progresssion of phrases , wrought with all the patient care of the literary craftsman , then disturb it with some wry interjection from the common tongue . |
| 25 | He then presented me with three sheep , after which all his family and relations asked for presents . |
| 26 | To demonstrate his methods John turned a sphere , then decorated it with routed fluting . |
| 27 | I chose my favourite poem in the book and wrote one verse on the accompanying card , and then decorated it with pressed flowers to match the bookmark . |
| 28 | During the first summer and autumn on the island , the English had built another sloop — thirty tons , clinker-hulled , two masted — from felled mahogany trees they dragged down from the forest ; they then fitted her with four barbaresque guns forged in the Italian style , transported from Europe by the Hopewell . |
| 29 | ‘ Then help me with this lot . ’ |
| 30 | The larva heaps sand or soil onto its head and jaws and then flicks it with some force up and behind it , working in a circle to produce a conical pit . |