Example sentences of "then [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After Anthony caught the cod he returned to the car park because his car was blocking somebody in , ’ explained a colleague at Sizewell B. ‘ One of his mates then stuffed the watch down the cod 's throat with a stick — I can imagine Anthony 's surprise when he started to fillet the fish back home . |
| 2 | He practised the phrase a few times and then stuffed the book back in the outside pocket of his jacket . |
| 3 | Is it then to see the world filled with drooping , superannuated , half-starved , helpless and unhelped animals , that you would alter the present system of pursuit and prey ? |
| 4 | Also now I tend , as you 've probably come to realise I 've tended to include specific types of bonding arrangements as a functional group for example , I call a carbon carbon double bond , I call that a functional group for the simple reason that that arrangement of bonds dictates the principle properties of those compounds and in that context I 'm then using the word group a bit more liberally instead of saying it 's a group of atoms which dictate the properties I 'll say it 's a group of atoms or it 's a special grouping of electrons , which dictate the properties . |
| 5 | In turn , Mr Liem bailed the government out by floating 10% of Indocement 's shares on the booming Jakarta stockmarket last December , raising $335m , and then using the money to repay most of the government 's investment . |
| 6 | They have a , a uroflow here , before the catheter is placed , and then using the diuresis period , we take several measurements of pressure and flow . |
| 7 | and we 'll do the elbow and knee okay elbow and knee then using the roller bandage |
| 8 | Then using the end of a teaspoon , ease out the seeds . |
| 9 | My preferred method is to select the initial cell , press F8 and then using the Formula Goto dialog box to type in the address of the final cell . |
| 10 | The respondent then lent the money interest-free to the family company . |
| 11 | At the Goldstone I bet he 'll go past three or four players , and then lose the ball taking on a fifth instead of putting our strikers in . |
| 12 | It looks as if he tore out the entries for the last two months and burned those pages separately , then chucked the book open on the flames . |
| 13 | But how can the competing factors in the industry then distinguish the service they provide from that of their competitors ? |
| 14 | You could , of course , get out your trusty copy of PKZIP and shrink it a bit , then flip it onto a disk , then copy it onto your desktop , then unzip it , then delete the ZIP file . |
| 15 | Equation ( 5.7 ) uses rm to discount the bond 's cash flows back to the next coupon payment and then discounts the value at that date back to date t . |
| 16 | The computer then produces the court documents with the relevant information at the correct time . |
| 17 | The dust infill then produces the mascon , borne by the cool rigid outer Moon . |
| 18 | Then zero the counter when the rewind process is completed . |
| 19 | The driver walked round the bus , then checked the road once again . |
| 20 | Taking the plate gently from him she placed it in the sink , then checked the turkey one last time , turned the gas down as low as it would go and made her way up to bed . |
| 21 | As already stated , the reason for the retention is the exquisite pain associated with passing urine , and the best way of solving the problem is to apply some local anaesthetic ointment until the vulva and external genitalia are completely numb and then sit the patient in a warm bath until urine has been passed . |
| 22 | If using scissors , a straight run is best cut by opening the blades a little then drawing the fabric through . |
| 23 | A pathetic attempt to use proto-scientific methods to ascertain and then apprehend the transcendent . |
| 24 | If the idea itself is more important to you than the glory reflecting from its success , then raise the idea at a meeting so that it becomes an idea generated by a team . |
| 25 | She glared at him , then scanned the road for anyone who might offer help if he turned nasty and tried to force her back inside the car , but , apart from an elderly woman walking an equally elderly terrier along the opposite pavement , the road was deserted . |
| 26 | He clipped a glass slide , smeared with a drop of blood , under an ordinary microscope reversed ; and then scanned the specimen in a series of lines by means of a minute and brilliant spot of light . |
| 27 | He got out of the taxi , paid the driver , then wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand . |
| 28 | She shook the thermometer vigorously , then wiped the end with antiseptic . |
| 29 | A few of the males may then mimic the female 's odour . |
| 30 | Such hexaploid triticale then became the subject of large-scale seed production . |