Example sentences of "and then [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a huge , exhausted yawn , she stretched and then lay spread-eagled , flat on her back . |
| 2 | The best way to place the liner on this edge is to put a row of bricks directly onto the collar , bring the liner over this row of bricks and then lay another row . |
| 3 | Ne Win governed for two years , and then staged another election . |
| 4 | People living under oppression can not go to the British embassy and seek an entry clearance document , present it to an airline office , take a plane to this country and then seek political asylum . |
| 5 | Tell the police and then seek medical treatment from your doctor or local hospital as soon as possible . |
| 6 | The present paper looks first at the general context of the discussions within Ashdown School and then outlines some of the issues that emerged from the research . |
| 7 | Ruth Gardner reviews the arguments for inclusion of service users ' views , and then surveys some national and local research studies which reflect consumer views . |
| 8 | and then subtract two . |
| 9 | When Rc is in left hand half of dial , it is sometimes easier to note the number of degrees Rc is left of 0° and then subtract that number of degrees from your HDG. 9 . |
| 10 | And then er just work out the length of this and then the length of that and then subtract these two lengths . |
| 11 | And , as if to celebrate her freedom , she dipped her cutwater into a sudden trough of the sea and then sprayed white water high over her bows . |
| 12 | The barmaid rang up the drinks on the till and then pocketed all of the change . |
| 13 | His view , however , is implicitly gradualist — ‘ a temporal progressive sequence of changes within an evolutionary lineage ’ — and there is no indication of the extensive palaeontological literature of the past decade suggesting an alternative punctuational view , that species may evolve relatively rapidly and then remain unchanged for long periods . |
| 14 | Modern professionals can hope to more than equal Rhodes ' achievements — viz. Club Professional Keith Williams , who in three consecutive friendlies in 1983 returned 63 , 63 and 67 and then followed these with a ‘ professional ’ 68 . |
| 15 | Seagulls , their wings covered with oil , were cleansed , caged and then let free . |
| 16 | At the church , note the direction of route which proceeds down between the two lakes and then keeps half left towards a barn and which is to left of and below distant tower of Preston Capes church . |
| 17 | Romania in 1944 was typical of the sort of partially industrialized society which became Communist and then suffered exaggerated , one-sided industrial development as a result . |
| 18 | But yesterday his dream came to an end in the Lake District where he was involved in a crash off the rally course and then suffered mechanical problems . |
| 19 | The velocity of propagation was measured in cm/ second as the mean of 10 consecutive values by determining the time interval in seconds between the beginning of the upstroke of the contractions at 5 and 15 cm above the lower oesophageal sphincter and then dividing 10 ( the distance in cm between the proximal and distal ports ) by that figure . |
| 20 | Okay , so let me start handing these out , and what I 'd like you to do is to extract the er , alpha dividers that are at the back , and then separate those out into two piles , A to L and M to Z , please . |
| 21 | The modern manager establishes his machismo , not by creating a business that can employ thousands , but by buying a business and then chucking all his supposedly supernumerary workers on the dole . |
| 22 | It is my intention to prepare a further paper taking account of the comments received , and then to invite interested parties to meet in order to discuss the way forward . |
| 23 | A major part of the Unit involves inquiry work where pupils are required to manipulate information retrieved from a database and then reproduce that information through a program containing such graphical options such as bar charts and pie charts . |
| 24 | For each thin section , the scientist makes a decision on what he regards as its significant features ( such as size or shape of particular mineral inclusions ) and then scores each feature , for each thin section , on a simple scale from one to five , without giving any thought at this stage to similarities and differences . |
| 25 | Walking up with us to our wards , Aline said , ‘ I guess they 'll keep you in Marcus until your nights off , and then shove one of the day staff nurses on nights . ’ |
| 26 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 27 | By totting up numbers for one group of estates , adding a notional 22 per cent for unrecorded children under twelve , and a further 25 per cent for other omissions , and then multiplying these for the whole of France , Lot calculated a population for Charles the Bald 's kingdom of 26 million . |
| 28 | The line passed under the Pilgrims Way at Upper Halling and then formed two branches . |
| 29 | Water that had started ten miles away at the far end of the moor and then fallen fifteen hundred feet overall . |
| 30 | erm the west bank option for widen worsen road to be abandoned , that I quite agree with and design on , and then follow that , I 'd like erm do environmental report for members to be or for members to look at the environmental report before it comes here . |