Example sentences of "[adj] then [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's forty then going that way , but when you think of the taxi , gee |
| 2 | A belligerent bat and adhesive catcher , Taylor certainly enjoyed one of the more auspicious starts to a county career , taking a century off the Sri Lankans on debut in 1979 then claiming four Gold Awards in his first five Benson & Hedges Cup ties . |
| 3 | There is always a first sentence in which the first phrase demands continuity , the second then providing repose . |
| 4 | I wandered ail over the city , getting lost then finding myself again where I had started . |
| 5 | If it is larger then spreading can cause pixels to be seen outside the permitted area , if smaller then accuracy can be lost . |
| 6 | The nursery is £35 a week cheaper then paying for a nanny . |
| 7 | In Wales the amount of development plan grants paid for drainage increased 3.5 times , and for grassland improvement 3.2 times , between 1979/80 and 1982/83 compared with a rise of 74% for farm buildings ( the latter then attracting a much lower rate of grant ) . |
| 8 | Blindly , Gina followed suit , gasping as the spirit hit her throat like a million splinters of ice , freezing first then burning , bringing tears to her eyes . |
| 9 | Buxtehude has set out to show that if cyclists can be persuaded to be disciplined , if pedestrians can be more tolerant and if the police will be more supportive then mixing the modes is possible . |
| 10 | Initially you you 're doing that then saying right , forget that one , get on with something else and that 's there for a week or whatever till that thoroughly hardens and then . |
| 11 | As long as people are told that their own oral language skills are irrelevant then demystifying the particular demands of reading and writing is going to remain difficult . |
| 12 | Shoulder-length blond hair , embroidered cheese-cloth shirt , single strand of beads — I mean , beads but tasteful — a sensual hint of hash and patchouli , and midnight blue denims stretched taut then flaring over the longest , leanest bass-guitarist 's thighs in Glasgow . |
| 13 | It is clear that if the theory advanced in these pages is correct then lessening of parental authority can only lead to increasing confrontation with the younger generation . |
| 14 | The teams played four matches , spread over several weeks , against each of the others , with the top two then going through to a best-of-three final . |
| 15 | Bassett said : ‘ It 's my fault for messing him about , switching him from one flank to the other then playing him through the middle . |
| 16 | I was then attacked by six 109s and diced with them without anything firm being achieved other then preserving my own neck . |
| 17 | those are far more expensive then buying Oxos |
| 18 | This feature occurs because rational expectations generally implies restrictions on the coefficients of the model , and if the restrictions are valid then imposing them should not worsen the model 's explanatory power . |