Example sentences of "then [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OS/400 : an attendant locks you into the car and then drives you to the store , where you get to watch everyone else buy fillet mignons . |
| 2 | Then goes he to the length of all his arm , |
| 3 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 4 | The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot . |
| 5 | Troy logs the information for research purposes , then retransmits it to an inventory distribution centre , where more computers decide what restocking is needed at Auburn Hills . |
| 6 | The Terrier man then kills it with a small pistol . |
| 7 | Teachers retain control of registration — keeping the important element of one-to-one contact — and perform it in the usual time , but instead of noting absences on paper , they feed the information directly onto a portable electronic register which then passes it to the central computer . |
| 8 | ( Puts it with large shells of the same type , then replaces it with the tiny ones . ) |
| 9 | The media item can be used again , but only if the Offline Manager re-initialises it and allocates it a new , unique identifier in VMS , then re-introduces it to the Offline System . |
| 10 | The media item can be used again , but only if the Offline Manager re-initialises it and allocates it a new , unique identifier in VMS , then re-introduces it to the offline system . |
| 11 | The judge goes over the dog and then assesses him on the move , at the end of which the dog receives a written critique and a grading , which is symbolized by different coloured ribbons : red for first , blue for second and yellow for third . |
| 12 | Which that , that then gets you into the issue of whether you are deliberately going to being creating a rich peasant economy and s erm so using the rich peasant economy as the leading sector . |
| 13 | Once the physiotherapist is confident that the patient has gained full control of his hemiplegic leg while making sideways steps , she then guides him through a sequence of forward steps , starting with the normal leg , transferring the weight onto that leg to move the hemiplegic leg , and maintaining good control of the pelvis during the movement . |
| 14 | A ferry then takes you on a short trip across the Camel Estuary to a well deserved cream tea at Padstow , and your journey 's end . |
| 15 | He then takes it to the bank and gets the money , to spend as he chooses . |
| 16 | He then directs him to the message to the angel of the church at Laodicea in the third chapter of Revelation . |
| 17 | ‘ But what should happen is that the workflow should be built into the software so that it automatically decides what needs to be done , by whom and when , then sends it to the relevant person , noting the deadline , and recording outstanding requests . ’ |
| 18 | One prepares one 's Bill and then presents it as a petition to Parliament . |
| 19 | ‘ He gets us into this mess , then legs it at the first sniff of trouble ! ’ |
| 20 | Do be good , for goodness sake , and the last thing you 'll hear before the cosmic Hoover sucks you heavenward and then spews you into the fiery pit forever is Vae Solis — the terrible trumpet tootling of the Seventh Angel — and it 'll sound something like this … |
| 21 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
| 22 | If the account was given to a neighbour who then repeats it to the social worker it will be multiple hearsay . |
| 23 | One then reminds him of the Smith case , and asks whether he still thinks that Smith was wrong . |
| 24 | The secret of AST 's success , he claims , is that it designs , engineers and manufactures its own products , and then sells them at a competitive price via resellers , which add software and value-added services . |
| 25 | She then whispers them to the Sixer while the next Brownie has her turn . |
| 26 | The second person carries the stakes and hands them to the third , unpointed ends first , who then pushes them into the ground and fastens the top line to the net with a half-hitch . |
| 27 | There is in these travel journals a movement towards the recognition that the most acute form of nostalgia is that which , in evoking the past as lost fullness , then faces it with the knowledge that the restless incompleteness felt so acutely now , in the present , was also a part of the imaginary fullness then ; the truthfulness which aims to allay nostalgia only intensifies it . |
| 28 | As far as the banks are concerned , they have no change in their balances in the Bank of England ( the government spends less money but then returns it to the banks by buying bills ) , but banks have fewer bills and hence fewer liquid assets . |
| 29 | The buyer is now the drawee/acceptor of the bill , who then returns it to the seller . |
| 30 | He then sucks it into the hollow first joint of a special limb , the pedipalp , rather in the same way as one fills a fountain pen . |