Example sentences of "then [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile her friend walked as far as the bike , then rode it to the point where he met Lorna , who then rode further while he walked … and so on . |
| 2 | Then turns it to us , away from himself , Max , Peg . |
| 3 | He clawed at the broken wheel that first dragged him across , then pinned him to the road . |
| 4 | We then asked them to already booked . |
| 5 | He calmed the animal , quickly inspected it , then led it to a second , checked this animal too for wounds and led it to Wynne-Jones . |
| 6 | Gy François then led us to the village 's chimpanzee sanctuary , a small grass-covered shelter where rice is regularly laid on a few very old-looking chimpanzee skulls . |
| 7 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |
| 8 | I understand that any such information is presented by the control computer , which can then convey it to the police officer concerned . |
| 9 | He took a few gulps , then passed it to Philip . |
| 10 | Duncan read the scrawl , then passed it to Myeloski . |
| 11 | Ponomarev then announced it to the world at an International Conference on Nuclear Physics in Vancouver during August 1977 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However if a chick is first imprinted on a yellow flashing light , it will then prefer it to a red one . |
| 14 | She grabbed the chairback , her head thick with drugged sleep , then lowered herself to the floor and sat there cross-legged . |
| 15 | I spat on my finger , rubbed it in the soot , then applied it to my eyebrow so that although it was not too convincing at close range , from a distance it looked natural enough . |
| 16 | Johnson and Thornley devised a complex crop growth model incorporating leaf area expansion and senescence , and they then applied it to grass growth . |
| 17 | Then goes he to the length of all his arm , |
| 18 | Here well-dressed factory representatives show up once a week and sell their goods at 30 per cent discount to wholesalers who then sell them to people like Marta — but not before a hard haggle for the best deal . |
| 19 | In other words , they created a self-image and then sold it to the greater powers of western Europe ; and whatever their reaction , be it incredulous , admiring or contemptuous , these powers now found it impossible to ignore the Scots ' insistent demands that they should be noticed . |
| 20 | The seller then sold it to the dealer for £2 . |
| 21 | I then sold it to the genuine buyer , paid you back … ’ |
| 22 | Stony Stratford men could have their lunch cooked at home and placed in a basket , labelled , and school children would then rush them to the top of the town and the tram would make an express run for one penny per lunch basket . |
| 23 | When children are encouraged to thread beads on a lace to match a particular pattern and then repeat it to the end of the lace , there is development of the idea of sequence . |
| 24 | If si is initially 0 , then change it to 1 with probability |
| 25 | If si is initially 1 , then change it to 0 with probability |
| 26 | I can write something on the computer , then send it to everyone else in the building at the press of a button . |
| 27 | The prosecution will then know themselves to be in a position to prove identification from the outset , and a parade will only come into the picture if Spratt specifically requests one . |
| 28 | ‘ I was angry ! ’ he admitted , thrusting his hands into the pockets of his trousers as he studied her , his eyes traversing her slender form , raking over the tangle of dark hair , her susceptible grey eyes , her full , sensual mouth , before lowering them in slow appraisal of her trim figure then returning them to her querulous expression . |
| 29 | At first he wants nothing more than a quick lay with a pretty maid , then wants her to be his mistress , then is able to admit to himself that he loves her , but the idea of marriage across the social barrier is impossible for him . |
| 30 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |