Example sentences of "then [vb base] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do n't have an oracle , then simply open any book — a dictionary will do — and , with your eyes closed , point to a word or passage ; then contemplate its possible meanings . |
| 2 | Raise your left knee as far as possible , and raise your right elbow to meet it , Return to the flat position then raise your right knee as far as possible , and raise your left elbow to meet it . |
| 3 | In some Companies , Guides make up their own names for Patrols and then embroider their own Patrol emblems . |
| 4 | Yeah , have a word with her and perhaps she 'll like to listen to that to the er words sort of that , and then make her own comments , it 's nice to get the opinions you know , the , the many of the family as you can |
| 5 | These doctors then make their own contracts with whatever hospitals or other providers they wish to and pay them from their larger budget . |
| 6 | Rather , what I hope for is a linguistic universe in which people will accept that they must consider the alternatives and then make their own choices , instead of relying so heavily on authority — even some hypothetical feminist authority — to tell them what is acceptable or ‘ correct ’ linguistic usage . |
| 7 | The most usual way for a musician to do business in Jamaica was through a producer , who would pay the musician a nominal sum for his work and then make his own deals with record companies : a system which traditionally guaranteed disproportionately generous returns for the producer , and next to nothing for the musician . |
| 8 | However , try these five examples using both clean and distorted sounds , and then make your own mind up as to which works best . |
| 9 | Give us a moment to clear a space for you and then pick your own time . |
| 10 | Then press them two buttons whatever you do . |
| 11 | Then place your other hand down and sit . |
| 12 | He would do all the foreplay while she was fifteen , then celebrate her sixteenth birthday — to the hour — in style . |
| 13 | They go to all that trouble to feed strangers and then expect their own family to do without . |
| 14 | Then let her quit Extravagance and Play ; |
| 15 | A bondage freak himself , he would get high on dope and then let his sadistic friends use his chest as an ashtray . |
| 16 | And then come and then wash your own cans out , and you used to carry them all through all round the village . |
| 17 | It is not clear whether he knew then that Mrs Thatcher had decided to sign the statement and then issue her own alternative . |
| 18 | It is not clear whether he knew then that Mrs Thatcher had decided to sign the statement and then issue her own alternative . |
| 19 | Hewlett-Packard and IBM are both very interested in the microkernel planned by the Software Foundation , but that is two years away , which suggests that if applications developers do not start converting their applications to run under OSF/1 soon , for commercial reasons , all the sponsors currently at the V.3.2 level look likely to decide to wait for the microkernel and then implement their existing environments over it . |
| 20 | So if we want to support pragmatism on the second , political dimension , we must accept and then exploit its central feature , its skepticism about legal rights . |
| 21 | He then cut her longish locks into a classic , chin-length bob . |
| 22 | Then show your tax-efficient ways of meeting your investment objectives . |
| 23 | I told him how I could freeze my eidetic images , then project my phantom body into them , to discover things that I could not possibly have known . |
| 24 | Chances are if you bought your racket in Britain it already had strings in it — unlike in the USA where the retailer will ask you a lot of questions about how you play and then string your new frame for you . |
| 25 | To work all year and then watch your entire flock of sheep be killed by a long savage winter , as happened in Malham in 1940 when drifts ten and twenty feet deep covered the moor of Spiggot Hill and Tarn Moss , must be cruelty itself . |
| 26 | Right then give me that microphone , give me that microphone . |
| 27 | And erm , so I said alright then give me some suggestions , because when we moved out of erm Milton Avenue , Diane and Harry immediately did the walls wood in the kitchen , about the same size as mine |
| 28 | They do the operation and keep the woman there for about an hour then give her 50 rupees . |
| 29 | ( The assistant might ask the customer for an extra 5p and then give him five 10p coins in change , which corresponds to X=-1 , y=5 , z=0 . ) |
| 30 | I would discuss the script , say , on proportional representation , and then give him free rein . |