Example sentences of "then [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man did n't need telling twice , and as the boy began to follow him , Connor suddenly remembered : at some time during the evening , when the saloon till ran short of change , he had put in some silver of his own and taken out a fiver — then stuffed it in a pewter tankard on the shelf for safekeeping . |
| 2 | ‘ It was disappointing to play so well at times and then lose it in that one spell . |
| 3 | Copy the formula from your spreadsheet and then paste it into Word for Windows . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That is , when we inform someone by means of language we retrieve a message from our model of reality and by means of the encoding and decoding of language transfer it to the addressee , who then fits it into his own model of reality . |
| 6 | draw round it , dot dot dot , draw even if you then sketch it without using a straight line , if you just join up the dots freehand , |
| 7 | In ways more amenable to women 's visual pleasure , off-beat films which then made it into the mainstream distribution circuit such as Lianna ( Nelson/Renzi ) , Desert Hearts , I 've Heard the Mermaids Singing ( Rozema ) and Percy Adlon 's work with Marianne Sagebrecht in Baghdad Café and Sugar Baby have achieved a degree of success in changing the dynamics of female objectification and sexual fantasy in an entertainment setting . |
| 8 | And and then evaluate it from there . |
| 9 | A third approach is evident in cases which accept in principle extensive review for error of law which flows from Anisminic and O'Reilly , but which then qualify it in varying ways . |
| 10 | Then turns it to us , away from himself , Max , Peg . |
| 11 | Nor could he have returned to power without the machinations of devoted supporters who worked to foment unrest in Algeria and then to channel it in his favour . |
| 12 | She then draped it with vivid red silk , secured in place with a glue gun . |
| 13 | Eugene Forster paused , raised one of his bushy eyebrows , then slowly and deliberately , with the wisdom of previous experience , finished the whisky , drew one last time on the cigar then plunged it with a hiss into the water , before he took the ‘ phone . |
| 14 | He ignored me until forced to ask a professional query , and then asked it of my cap . |
| 15 | He scratched under his bag wig , knocking it askew , then straightened it in a fussy way , all the time fidgeting in his seat as if the bugs were biting there too . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I understand that any such information is presented by the control computer , which can then convey it to the police officer concerned . |
| 18 | He then passed it through the letterbox and the baby ate her meal on the freezing patio . |
| 19 | Chant dug in his inside pocket and pulled out his wallet , then passed it through the window , letting it drop on the seat beside the driver . |
| 20 | He took a few gulps , then passed it to Philip . |
| 21 | Duncan read the scrawl , then passed it to Myeloski . |
| 22 | Ponomarev then announced it to the world at an International Conference on Nuclear Physics in Vancouver during August 1977 . |
| 23 | However if a chick is first imprinted on a yellow flashing light , it will then prefer it to a red one . |
| 24 | Sheldukher raised the weapon and then lowered it with a sigh . |
| 25 | It is appropriate here to start with the main equation in the form ( 10.62 ) using the variables t and z defined by ( 10.60 ) , and then transforming it by putting ( 10.72 ) where the parameters v and η are not necessarily real . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Johnson and Thornley devised a complex crop growth model incorporating leaf area expansion and senescence , and they then applied it to grass growth . |
| 28 | This means you get the debt guaranteed by a bank in the buyer 's country , then sell it at a discount to another bank . |
| 29 | Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year . |
| 30 | For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon . |