Example sentences of "then [vb base] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here well-dressed factory representatives show up once a week and sell their goods at 30 per cent discount to wholesalers who then sell them to people like Marta — but not before a hard haggle for the best deal . |
| 2 | When children are encouraged to thread beads on a lace to match a particular pattern and then repeat it to the end of the lace , there is development of the idea of sequence . |
| 3 | If si is initially 0 , then change it to 1 with probability |
| 4 | If si is initially 1 , then change it to 0 with probability |
| 5 | I can write something on the computer , then send it to everyone else in the building at the press of a button . |
| 6 | If we need people with financial experience and managerial experience , then appoint them to the local to the Police Committee , given them a job to do , they 're the ones that are should advise the Chief Constable and the Police Committee as to whether they 're spending the right of money on computers and are using it properly , not whether they 're using them operationally correctly . |
| 7 | In addition , Piaget ( 1926 ) carried out an observational study of children 's spontaneous speech , and a study in which children had to listen to a spoken explanation and then relay it to another person . |
| 8 | The monster fell asleep in a drunken stupor and Susa-no-wo then cut it to pieces and settled down with the maiden . |
| 9 | With pants , as with many clothes , she has to know the difference between things that are nearly the same — like large waist holes and smaller leg holes — and then match them to her body . |
| 10 | He then put it to Mr and Mrs Singh that they would have to think about whether they would like Balbinder to come to the school . |
| 11 | " Take a quart of green gooseberries boil them and pulp them thro " a sieve , take the whites of 3 eggs , beat them to a Froth , put it to the Gooseberries and beat it both together till it looks white , then take ½ pound refin 'd sugar , make it into a Syrrup with Spring Water , boyl it to a Candy , [ i.e. to the small thread ] let it be almost cold then put it to the Gooseberries and Eggs and beat all together till t is all froth , which put into Cups or Glasses — Codlings [ green apples ] may be done the same way . |
| 12 | Children can plant sunflower seeds in pots indoors and then transfer them to the garden in early summer . |
| 13 | Alternatively , major capital projects would be undertaken by private sector contractors who would finance and build the assets in question , operate them for a specified period in return for an agreed fee and then transfer them to the commissioning authority . |
| 14 | We 'll get rid of the pain with some drugs , and then transfer her to the burns unit at Cambridge . |
| 15 | Will the Minister release MOD votes to allow local authorities , in collaboration with the MOD , to bring empty housing owned by the local authorities and the MOD up to acceptable standards and then transfer it to local authority control for the express purpose of providing homes to ex-service personnel ? |
| 16 | If you want your weans to get homework then give it to them your tucking self . |
| 17 | ‘ Then give it to her , ’ Laidlaw said . |
| 18 | ‘ Then give it to me . ’ |
| 19 | On the contrary , Montaigne argues that the legal procedures common in the Europe of his day by which " under the cloak of piety and religion … neighbours and fellow citizens [ were allowed ] to tear by rack and torture a body still full of feeling , to roast it by degrees and then give it to be trampled and eaten by dogs and swine " were a more horrible form of savagery than anything he had described as prevailing among the Brazilian cannibals . |
| 20 | Then give it to me . |
| 21 | ‘ If you want something done then give it to a busy person ’ . |
| 22 | My grandfather taught me necessary skills : how to tip my tea into my saucer and blow waves across it until it was cool enough to drink ; how to cut an orange in half crossways and pack a sugar lump into each half and then suck out orange-juice and sugar together ; how to walk along the crazy-paving garden path without stepping On any of the cracks or a tiger would get you ; how to butter the loaf and then clutch it to your chest and then shave off paper-thin slices ; what saint to pray to when you woke up at night and saw the devil moving behind the curtains . |
| 23 | Apart from milk , these are : eggs , peanuts , other nuts , wheat , chocolate , fish , oranges and other citrus fruits , chicken and beef If you eat a lot of any of these foods , then add them to your list . |
| 24 | I get the costs and then meet you to my husband and he still wanted . |
| 25 | And she wrote stories , then read them to the children after tea . |
| 26 | Did you realize they drive the ponies into a corral , then tie them to a stake in the burning sun for five days with no food or water ? |
| 27 | ‘ Right , we 'll get you a hot drink — laced with something alcoholic , I think , and then get you to bed . ’ |
| 28 | This will enable users to develop neural applications on their personal computers under Windows , and then download them to the NT5000 system , a stand-alone box that collects data from real world analogue and digital devices like microphones , cameras and other industrial sensors . |
| 29 | Recording technology can be used to produce extended , unique , individual visions ( Mike Oldfield 's Tubular Bells ) ; and , with the advent of ‘ portable studios ’ , a musician can produce a complete piece on tape at home , then teach it to the band , just like a bourgeois composer , rather than entering into collaborative work . |
| 30 | Watch how they move right up to a certain morsel and pick it up with their lips , or how they move no closer than several inches to another and then draw it to the edge of their lips with a mighty suck . |