Example sentences of "then [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | First soak in 5 M HCl for 55 min at 26-C , then wash in double-distilled water for 5 min and then stain in freshly prepared and filtered Schiff 's reagent for 2 h in the dark . |
| 2 | Quinn 's fundamental point is simply that it is foolish to try to produce a total group-wide analysis at a given time and then to go ahead rapidly implementing that , ignoring the changing external and internal environments . |
| 3 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 4 | Well , Oxfam week 's principally aimed at a house , house to house collection Jane , so we shall be asking a whole lot of people to get out on the streets and to put envelopes through the doors in their neighbourhood and then to go back later on and collect money which we hope people will kindly give us . |
| 5 | Pike took off the peaked cap and tucked it inside his overall which he then zipped up tight to the neck . |
| 6 | They galloped up until they were within shouting distance , exchanged words with Arghatun , and then rode away again . |
| 7 | He exchanged a few words with Hodai , then rode away again . |
| 8 | ‘ Then sit down again . |
| 9 | Stand up , then sit down again , focusing your attention on your hands to detect any pulling back of the head . |
| 10 | Then sit down now . |
| 11 | Sit down then sit down then . |
| 12 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 13 | flour and then to carry home here . |
| 14 | The red-haired baby with the bright blue eyes heaves himself up to a standing position , staggers , then sits down abruptly with a look of mild surprise . |
| 15 | Begin by aligning the catapult in the direction you wish to fire then declare how far you wish to fire . |
| 16 | He began to examine the neck and head of the calf , then became very still as he handled one of the little horn buds . |
| 17 | Popular forms were expropriated and then given back suitably packaged . |
| 18 | He grabbed the poor creature by the neck and drew him close , then gazed savagely across at us . |
| 19 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 20 | Beyond the car park , the road contours the hillside , two branches going down to the coastal dwellings of Inver Alligin , and then turns sharply uphill to force a narrow passage across a bare and rocky headland on the last stage of its journey . |
| 21 | This is a useful aid to accurate manual focusing : zoom in to telephoto , set the focus , and then zoom back out to frame the shot the way you want it . |
| 22 | Extra hardcore is then rammed well down into the hole and the concrete replaced , using a mix of one part cement to two sand and three of 20mm gravel . |
| 23 | She stopped at noon for some bread and cheese , and a glass of wine diluted with water , then plunged doggedly back into housework . |
| 24 | I glance in the rear-view mirror to see other cars close behind ; slowing down but then speeding up again . |
| 25 | Two antimony pH probes ( Monocrystant Mod 0011 , Synectics Medical , Sweden ) were calibrated at Ph 1 and 7 at 35°C before the study and then passed transnasally so that the upper probe lay 5 cm proximal to the upper border of the manometrically determined lower oesophageal sphincter and the lower probe 10 cm distal to its lower border . |
| 26 | The cloth is then wrung out as dry as possible and the deposited water recovered while it is still hot . |
| 27 | She then drives home again arriving back at 6 pm . |
| 28 | And then drives home usually through the wall . |
| 29 | The child involved the mother at home in the project by hunting out scraps of fabric , discussing what they were , then bringing back home the finished house . |
| 30 | Like Aconite it is suited to plethoric , vigorous , healthy constitutions , robust children and babies when the complaints come on suddenly and with great violence , then subsides just as suddenly ; a short , sharp course — Not to be used in prolonged , continuous or recurrent states or in complaints which come on gradually . |