Example sentences of "then [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are generally operated on a fixed cycle , so that , when a known volume of water has passed through the plant , a valve is turned so as first to backwash the bed to cleanse the zeolite , and then to pass in brine for a fixed time to regenerate the material . |
| 2 | He started to speak and then to recite in front of a mirror . |
| 3 | We have then to look in detail at the ways in which relatively constant biological processes and relatively variable means of production have combined both in specifically comparable and in specifically variable ways , always within specific social ( historico-social ) situations . |
| 4 | Couples of all ages strolled leisurely along , stopping now and then to look in shop windows . |
| 5 | Pretty certain this must be the man , Paige set off down the street , stopping every now and then to look in shop windows and cast surreptitious glances backwards . |
| 6 | It is necessary then to consider in turn the war , the effects of coalitionism , and the years between the end of coalition and the party recovery in 1924 . |
| 7 | Of schooling in the East Riding in the 1790s , it was later recalled : When the labourers ' children could obtain employment from the farmers , the school was abandoned , and the youthful pupils were sent to cut weeds in the cornfields in the spring ; to frighten away the birds from the standing corn ; then to assist in harvest operations ; and next to glean the fields which had been reaped . |
| 8 | I 'M getting married in less than two months and I want to lose about a stone before then to get in shape for the big day . |