Example sentences of "then [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 An attacker throws a right punch which is blocked with an outside palm , which then wraps itself around the attacker 's wrist in a grabbing movement .
2 Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second .
3 Very often a student creates his first phrase and then finds himself at a loss .
4 The rotor then finds itself in advance of the instantaneous equilibrium position and the motor is able to produce the negative decelerating torque .
5 It is also clear from Walkley v Precision Forgings [ 1979 ] 1 WLR 606 and Chappell v Cooper [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 463 that where the plaintiff commences an action during the primary s11 or s12 limitation period but then puts himself in a position where he can not pursue it , for instance by letting his writ expire without service or delaying so much that his action is struck out for want of prosecution , the court will have no power to exercise s33 discretion , since it is the plaintiff 's own action or default which has prejudiced him and not the operation of s11 or 12 .
6 He then enjoys himself at the end of the book , looking to the future from various standpoints .
7 So another over full of effort from David Lawrence , he takes a massive breath and then heaves himself off some distant corner of the field .
8 In this country we call it Medau Breathing Movement , and by ‘ breathing movement ’ we mean internal movement of the trunk , which starts with the rising and falling of the diaphragm and then communicates itself to the abdominal walls , pelvic floor , the whole back and as far as the collar bone .
9 When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion .
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