Example sentences of "then [vb past] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Director of Studies then asked why the syllabus did not set out the relationship between assessment criteria and objectives more explicitly . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the passage , she stumbled and almost fell , then flung back the door to the bedroom . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She looked at me and put her finger to her lips , then got out the broom and began to sweep up the crumbs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Lighting the gas , she secured the kettle within the rails which would hold it in place , then snatched up the dishcloth . |
| 8 | He fumbled with the lock , then drew back the catch . |
| 9 | Allowing for the fact that not every man would hear the call , and that the laird would wish to leave a number of men to guard the place , he then bumped up the arithmetic to suppose nine hundred inhabitants . |
| 10 | She transferred the Beretta from her shoulder holster to her anorak pocket then moved down the row of freight cars , checking for the serial number which corresponded with the one Teufel had written down for her . |
| 11 | She turned , joining the line of boarding passengers , holding out her pass to the tiny Han stewardess , then moved down the aisle towards her seat . |
| 12 | I began the basic structure of the rose leaves in the bottom left of the picture and then built up the shape with the larger open roses , tucking the asparagus fern and gypsophila behind them , and finally put the buds into position . |
| 13 | Asik was glad to get a drink ; it did not matter to him if the water was dirty or clean , he was thirsty and gulped down as much as he could , washed his feet and then filled up the water jug . |
| 14 | I stopped long enough to recharge , then pedalled up the Arrow Valley , crossed a ridge of hills and then freewheeled all the way down to the largest second hand bookshop in the world at Hay-on-Wye . |
| 15 | I thought of the spider , then blanked out the thought . |
| 16 | Cerda interviewed those named in his testimony , including Wally Fuentes Morrison , and then threw down the gauntlet to Pinochet . |
| 17 | He sat up , then threw back the sheet . |
| 18 | alternative vision , he then threw out the thought that , far from varsity virtue being reflected in high A-level grade inputs , the real test was to accept lesser qualifications but achieve a high quality output ( as at Salford ) . |
| 19 | ANIMALS ! ’ or ‘ BIRCH ’ EM ’ and ‘ SMASH THESE THUGS ’ encouraged the public to treat young football fans as criminals , and the fans themselves then acted out the role that had been supplied for them . |
| 20 | Her father recounted his latest golf tournament , Guy talked to Charles about sailing , then opened up the conversation by introducing a surprisingly shrewd appreciation of the arts into the debate , when it became clear that in addition to racing yachts around the Isle of Wight he made frequent visits to see the RSC at the Barbican , and was something of an expert on modern ballet . |
| 21 | After her breakfast , she did her usual Saturday chores , then opened up the dining-room table to its full extent , and , placing everything in neat individual sections , emptied her briefcase . |
| 22 | Bishops then turned up the pressure in a search for an equaliser , and it nearly came on seventy minutes as yet another debut man , Tommy Callanan blasted the ball against the underside of the ball from literally yards out when it was easier to score . |
| 23 | He finished painting in a silence so icy she could almost feel its frosty fingers on her skin , then climbed down the ladder and handed her the paintbrush . |
| 24 | The plaintiff 's friend then poured out the rest of the contents and a decomposed snail flowed out of the bottle . |
| 25 | This led , they argue , to a situation where decisions were made by the elite at the top of the management hierarchy and then fed down the line of command . |
| 26 | ‘ I locked the lecture-room , came downstairs and checked that there was no one in the ground-floor rooms , then locked up the building . ’ |
| 27 | WHITE WINE WHITE GRAPES ARE FIRST CRUSHED AND THEN PRESSED ONLY THE JUICE IS FERMENTED IN THE VATS . |
| 28 | The rain , whipped up by the wind , bit into her face , stung the softly tanned skin on her neck and then trickled down the inside of her blouse , to merge with the hundred other rivulets of water that soaked into her skin . |
| 29 | According to family tradition , Mr and Mrs Major then carved up the constituency and set about rallying the troops . |
| 30 | Wilkie , who describes himself modestly as a working journalist , then tracked down the poet 's widow . |