Example sentences of "then [vb base] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On behalf of their inarticulate owners , these clothes say ‘ I 'm not playing ! ’ and then sit on the sidelines ( so you can see how upset you 've made them ) , and wait for the world to be nice . |
| 2 | ‘ Then sit on the pot now — go on ! ’ |
| 3 | Look through the whole text , feel its atmosphere , decide how it can be shaped into a musical form , and then concentrate on the music , and especially on the melody . |
| 4 | With your back straight , bottom muscles clenched and foot flexed , slowly lift your leg up behind you , ease it higher to the count of 16 , then repeat on the other leg . |
| 5 | Do 16 lifts , then repeat on the other side . |
| 6 | Relax the leg by bringing the knee towards the chest , then repeat on the other side . |
| 7 | Relax , then repeat on the other side . |
| 8 | Then glue on the new fronts . |
| 9 | A burst of automatic fire up front and to our left brings the column to a halt as we then squat on the wet ground and watch the tracers shoot off across the night sky . |
| 10 | First of all he would indicate the vertical row , then tap on the window with a coin held between his fingers . |
| 11 | Having attributed such importance to value consensus , many functionalists then focus on the question of how this consensus is maintained . |
| 12 | Then add on the local charge for sewerage disposal . |
| 13 | Research has found that in sums of the ‘ x+y ’ type , most children at some stage in their development identify the larger of the two numbers and then add on the smaller by counting on in steps of one ( eg 3+7=7+1 , 8+1 , 9+1 , 10 ) . |
| 14 | They wait till something gets hot and then jump on the bandwagon . ’ |
| 15 | Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there . |
| 16 | Then negotiate on the items which cause any difficulty . |
| 17 | I place a teabag and some powdered milk into the enamel cup and then pour on the water and stir with a twig . |
| 18 | Simulium black flies are blood-feeders with scissor-like mouthparts which chop up the skin and then feed on the resulting blood . |
| 19 | According to Air Vice Marshall Peter Howard , who is in charge of selecting the astronaut , the Soviets can choose four ‘ finalists ’ but the British then decide on the two people who will leave for Moscow at the beginning of December . |
| 20 | You have already defined what the worry is , so go on to look at the cause , list different possibilities for dealing with the cause and then decide on the action which seems most likely to be effective . |
| 21 | The explicit theoretical approach which we adopted in 5 should certainly not be necessary ( unless our students are students of linguistics ! ) , but we will need forgive examples of alternative ways of ordering information in an English clause ( as we did with the John ate fish and chips sentence in 5.4 ) and then rely on the students ' ability to acquire a sense of which is contextually most suitable . |
| 22 | Vole are vile because they dig up and eat my crocus species in spring and then hog on the ripening figs in August . |
| 23 | He claims these reptiles make superb pets as they sit incredibly still for hours and then go on the rampage — very much like Pest Control staff ! |
| 24 | I go into the end-game ( the colours ) with a lead of about 30 — and then win on the black . |
| 25 | You must then perform a small conjuring trick — holding all the layers of the picture firmly together , turn the frame and picture upside down and place on the table , then fix on the hardboard back . |
| 26 | They then bid on the telephone via a broker who is in the television studio . |
| 27 | Then click on the Browse button . |
| 28 | Select ‘ Add ’ a printer in the next menu , and then click on the top line ‘ Unlisted Printer ’ where upon you will prompted for the drive designator where the information is . |
| 29 | When you figure out which city you 're in , click on the Globulator icon ( who thinks up these names ? ) and then click on the world map to select the correct city . |
| 30 | Right , so , let's go over isomers and then start on the hydro-carbons in some detail and pi the first mechanism , we 're talking about mechanisms general as well . |