Example sentences of "then [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader then turns away from the children during which time they can advance . |
| 2 | The genealogist who has traced his family tree as far back as is possible through the use of the civil registration records kept at St Catherine 's House , London , and local registry offices then turns naturally to the baptism , marriage and burial registers of the Church of England for the preceding generations . |
| 3 | Every sentence begins ‘ The whole point is this , ’ proceeds doggedly towards the target , then veers off at the last moment and explodes harmlessly in the undergrowth . |
| 4 | The track then goes up through the forest to the crest of the hill . |
| 5 | It then goes on to the Shoulder of Mutton Hill , noted for its flower rich grassland . |
| 6 | It then goes on to the village of Colton and the Trent Valley . |
| 7 | The score then goes on to the last musical number in Act 3 , ‘ A thousand thousand ways ’ , which is a song repeated by the chorus . |
| 8 | Possibly well no , cos they , because it then goes on to the rain in heaven , I was going to say , maybe send the rain |
| 9 | Maconie then goes on about the ‘ Fred EP ’ and how the proceeds go to THT . |
| 10 | The path goes to the right to reach a stream at a small gorge and then goes slightly to the left to pass Loch an Fhir-bhallaich . |
| 11 | The second session begins with a few limbering-up exercises and then goes immediately to the selection . |
| 12 | ‘ Ah ! ’ she says , and then goes over to the other side of the shop . |
| 13 | Then drinks here at the bar . |
| 14 | He then looks grimly into the coffee cup . |
| 15 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 16 | She comes back across the room , punches me playfully in the chest , then flops on to the sofa . |
| 17 | Your vessel then heads on to the wonderful wine town of Rüdesheim , arriving around 6.30pm . |
| 18 | From here the path follows the river bank downstream and then heads back into the forest and away from the river before crossing a burn . |
| 19 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 20 | When the relay contacts open , transistor TR6 switches off and the oscillation then depends only upon the small charge remaining on capacitor C8 and the value of resistor R29 . |
| 21 | The course , which crosses a narrow railway bridge and a major road , climbs from 160 feet above sea level to 368 feet , drops back to 303 feet , then climbs again to the finish which is 450 feet above sea level . |
| 22 | The route then climbs out of the Severn Valley and goes across country to Heightlington . |
| 23 | Mike Shell and Tony Sawbridge found Kathleen Turner ( HVS ) on the Outer St James Stone , and in Short Story Zawn , In One Bound E2 5c , starts up Big Shiner then traverses right onto the face left of Tall Story . |
| 24 | How can viruses induce cells to enter the cycle of rapid multiplication that then leads on to the development of a tumour ? |
| 25 | Everyone then gets out of the habit of going to the pub and goes to the ever-increasing competition such as McDonald 's or other fast food establishments . |
| 26 | 3 The leading arm then withdraws back to the body in preparation for the next move . |
| 27 | The neurotransmitter then diffuses across to the postsynaptic neuron , and starts a new action potential in it . |
| 28 | Tests show that , after a slow beginning , availability of the nutrients rises to a peak in about 80 days and then tails off with the potash being held late , when it is needed . |
| 29 | The hammer then travels upwards towards the string until the beak slips out from the escapement . |
| 30 | This first capacitor charges to the peaks of the rectified sinewave potential during forward intervals but discharges somewhat through the load during reverse intervals as the rectified e.m.f. first falls from its peak value and then rises back to the potential difference retained on the capacitor . |