Example sentences of "then [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She then draped it with vivid red silk , secured in place with a glue gun . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He ignored me until forced to ask a professional query , and then asked it of my cap . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He then passed it through the letterbox and the baby ate her meal on the freezing patio . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He took a few gulps , then passed it to Philip . |
| 12 | Duncan read the scrawl , then passed it to Myeloski . |
| 13 | Ponomarev then announced it to the world at an International Conference on Nuclear Physics in Vancouver during August 1977 . |
| 14 | Sheldukher raised the weapon and then lowered it with a sigh . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | The seller then sold it to the dealer for £2 . |
| 19 | I then sold it to the genuine buyer , paid you back … ’ |
| 20 | Accordingly , he ‘ did up ’ the car ( then worth £20 ) at a cost of £85 and then sold it for £100 . |
| 21 | Having shown his concern for the problems of multinational capital , Barry then laid it on the line for the Cork objectors : ‘ These objectors must accept that the public and voluntary bodies involved in scrutinizing polluting industries are genuinely concerned and responsible . ’ |
| 22 | Its journalists then re-founded it as an independent paper [ see p. 38372 ] . |
| 23 | Fuqua Industries first estimated the cost of capital for the corporate group using CAPM principles and then modified it for a division by reference to fourteen key risk elements . |
| 24 | Worrall gave it , then disallowed it for offside but the linesman changed his mind after Pickering made a long appeal and Worrall then allowed the goal . |
| 25 | Rindt then crashed it in practice for the Canadian race and flatly refused to drive it again . |
| 26 | This is a rather strange piece of behaviour , which gave rise in the l9th century to the belief that the female cuckoo swallowed her egg after laying it and then regurgitated it into the host 's nest . |
| 27 | Highbury boss Graham said afterwards : ‘ He first picked up the injury against Nottingham Forest , then aggravated it with England and he 's aggravated it again . |
| 28 | He used the whip on Gallagher , but Gallagher managed to take it away from him and then used it on him . ’ |
| 29 | Melcarek and Brown then used it for a study of the effects of chill stress on both prompt and delayed fluorescence . |
| 30 | THE French count who is to marry the Princess of Wales ' stepmother , Raine , Countess of Spencer , said yesterday he felt ‘ totally abused ’ by people who rented his chateau then used it for a porn film . |