Example sentences of "then [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counsel then appearing for the petitioner does not seem to have appreciated that the cancellation issue had been heard in the course of the trial of the preliminary issue and finally decided by the Court of Appeal on 4 October 1991 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised . |
| 4 | At the end of the last century when Impressionism was still a dirty word in England , and anyone who bought a Monet was considered as being more than half-way on the road to Bedlam , the Americans were taking to him with something of the enthusiasm which they were then displaying for the newly discovered chewing-gum . |
| 5 | Tossing it all together in a heap in a pan , and then hoping for the best , would produce another totally inedible meal . |
| 6 | Then feeling for the window-sill that was part way up , he knocked the owl lamp that his Mum had put there for him to take up to his room . |
| 7 | This ‘ rothaariges Jungling ’ was the twenty-three year-old Frits Lugt who was then working for the auctioneers Frederik Müller et Cie and the message led to an invitation to visit Dr Max Friedländer in that great training ground for art historians , the Print Room of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum . |
| 8 | 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 . |