Example sentences of "and then [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken would go on upsetting people and then apologizing for his actions . |
| 2 | Their approach is to go back to first principles , looking at the constraints that link objects and events in the real world to what happens in the retinal image and then looking for rules that can be used unambiguously to recode retinal events in terms of the outside world ( Poggio , Torre , and Koch 1985 ; Ullman 1986 ) . |
| 3 | Cells were detached from flasks by first washing three times with Ca 2 + - and Mg 2 + -free phosphate buffered saline and then incubating for three minutes at 37°C with the same phosphate buffered saline to which 0.02% ( w/v ) EDTA had been added . |
| 4 | When they reached the shearers ' quarters she became a bundle of activity , doing all she could to assist Matt in setting up the large barbecue , and then searching for dry wood to boil the water for the billy tea . |
| 5 | He was staying up for four or five days at a time and then crashing for four or five days . |
| 6 | Tossing it all together in a heap in a pan , and then hoping for the best , would produce another totally inedible meal . |
| 7 | So deep was the division on the " entrist tactic " that the unified body reached the compromise of working within the Labour Party for a period and then withdrawing for a time and continuing independent activity . |
| 8 | On receipt of the returned summons you or your agent must now complete the service copy of the summons by putting in the return day and calling day and then arranging for it to be served on your debtor . |
| 9 | He 's very conscious of the fact that he 's indebted to him , not just for rescuing him from those awful guardians but for getting him into Grafton Abbey and then arranging for him to work for Mr Harvey . |
| 10 | Mr Guest has been extremely helpful , first sending an inspector out to review the situation and then arranging for the 6.45am bus from Crook to Bishop Auckland to be rescheduled to arrive in Crook five minutes earlier . |
| 11 | The children in groups of two , three or four , tackled an experiment of mixing hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide and then testing for the result and boiling the outcome to see what was left . |
| 12 | No but as erm Mrs has mentioned to me , when it comes to er converting an existing garage into a den or a study and then asking for another garage to be built . |
| 13 | ''' That was exactly what the average person called on to make self-criticism thought : all that mattered was getting through the ritual humiliation , and then going for a drink . |
| 14 | Danielle recommends massaging the oil gently into the affected areas twice daily after a warm bath , and then relaxing for several minutes afterwards . |
| 15 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 16 | They 'll be pulling pints in the cricket club on saturday and then heading for London on Sunday … may the best team win … |
| 17 | Jack watched the guard dialling and then waiting for a nerve-stretching length of time . |
| 18 | Part location is improved as the spatial data recorded in HERMS can be used to find parts by : I ) specifying a position in an assembly and an enclosing search field , 2 ) specifying the maximum volume of the part expressed in extents values ( XYZ ) , 3 ) similar to 2 but by delivering a ratio between two orthogonal extents values , ie slenderness ratio , 4 ) by choosing a known part and then checking for all parts that have a specified class of interference ( or separation ) with the named part , and 5 ) combinations of I — 4 . |