Example sentences of "then [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two o'clock — I then sit down in front of the television with a pen and piece of paper and watch the schools programme which I like because you can have a rest from writing and reading . |
| 2 | But Nathan Bryce had only to look at her for her heart to skip a beat , then race out of control . |
| 3 | Peeling potatoes , she 's only peeling potatoes , dinner potatoes , then wash up after dinner . |
| 4 | Their finished works , scarcely dry , were then put up for sale , promoted , sometimes bought . |
| 5 | Each part must be individually dried off and sprayed with oil to prevent corrosion and then put back in place . |
| 6 | When planning a rotation , it is very helpful to draw up a long-term scheme and dovetail the various crops into the seasons , at the same time ensuring that each field comes into the rotation in its turn and is then put back in grass to build up fertility for the requisite period . |
| 7 | One of the police officers responded by referring to the ‘ new manual ’ , parts of which were then read out in court . |
| 8 | The Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit ( alias Trevor and Erika Payers ) pose for the perfect shot ( above ) and then ride off in tandem to their reception , a distance of eight miles ( left ) |
| 9 | Children who have had happy , loving and stable early experiences will when hurt simply weep for a while to relieve the hurt , then get on with life . |
| 10 | It allows novice skiers to travel too fast and they then get out of control and hit a tree . |
| 11 | He remembered the vivid sunsets of his boyhood and the way the sun would hang like a crimson ball above the edge of the trees surrounding their house and then plunge out of sight as if it had been dropped in a moment of carelessness . |
| 12 | Yet at the time , he admits , he saw it merely as a way to travel , learn the ropes and then set up in business on his own account . |
| 13 | With a sinking heart she arranged for her things to come up by an outside porter , and then set off for home . |
| 14 | Miss Logan made indeterminate gestures to the priest , then set off in pursuit of her employer . |
| 15 | Then put the whole root-ball into a container which will take it without cramping , and which already has compost in the base , then fill in with compost at the sides . |
| 16 | Buy seven £50 fish then rush out in search of a £1000 systemised tank to keep them in ? |
| 17 | then brush up towards armpit . |
| 18 | The faint silvery-white outline of his robe and his face were clearly discernible to her at all times , and so overpowering was the experience at first that in the early morning , as she poured out a cup of tea , she would pour a second cup and absent-mindedly walk towards the chair and say : ‘ Here 's a cup of tea for you , ’ and then jolt back to reality , shaking her head : ‘ Agh , I must be mad ! |
| 19 | If you are no better at all , then go on to Step 2 . |
| 20 | So what we do is erm your your cursor must be in the table somewhere , so you then go up to table , select table , then you 've got to format , border , and grid so we want the grid lines to show then in fact you can chose what we want for the outside border one of these Right , okay Now what I want you to do is set the questions , right ? |
| 21 | We could take the travelling coach to York and then go up by train . ’ |
| 22 | and then go back over stuff that you 've done earlier that you have n't been able to understand where you 've felt , Ooh I do n't know what 's going on here . |
| 23 | She would take another day off and then go back to work . |
| 24 | Gradually the untreated smoke and grime turned Nordhausen into a dirty city , with dirty people , all with little to do except work and drink and then go back to work . |
| 25 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 26 | for about thirty thousand or something like that and then go back to work and just pay your own mortgage off |
| 27 | Which means , that at the end of the day , before reaching your final decision , you must hear what people are saying , and so you ca n't take a decision as it were , a final decision about a closure , and then go out to consultation . |
| 28 | But I often find myself being far less nervous than the artists I 'm supporting , because I 'm so used to gigging ; I 've been doing a steady diet of around four gigs a week to support myself for many years , whereas they make an album then go out on tour every two years . ’ |
| 29 | Marie used to do that when I met her — you know , sleep all day and then go out at night . |
| 30 | Then Elaine said , ‘ Do you remember we used to go out with Mama and buy Father 's cigars , and then go out with Father — he would take us into Newcastle and we would get Mama 's perfume . |