Example sentences of "[coord] then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 2 | The OR then calls a meeting of creditors to decide whether they will make the debtor bankrupt or let him off by accepting an arrangement for less than 100 per cent of their debts to be paid in full and final settlement . |
| 3 | Is there any chance you could run a page or so every now and then to explain a few of the terms that crop up in the reviews ? |
| 4 | In tests designed to examine ‘ concept formation ’ she asked children to put together those pictures or objects in an array that were most alike , and then to explain the reasons for their choice . |
| 5 | It will be instructive , therefore , to describe the traditional method and then to explain the new system . |
| 6 | The aim of this research is to establish in precisely which respects this characterisation may be true and then to explain why such a pattern has emerged . |
| 7 | Some of these are indirect ways of reducing speeds , but nowhere is the direct way used ie a change in the law to bring speed limits below 50 km/h , applied street by street or across a zone , delimited by signs , enforced by the police , publicised widely , and then supported by infrastructural measures to ensure compliance as well as by environmental enhancement to reinforce perception of the changing function of the street to one of pedestrian ownership . |
| 8 | Straighten the bristles after cleaning and wrap with clean plain paper , so that the bristles maintain their shape , and then lay it on its side until it is required for use . |
| 9 | The best way to place the liner on this edge is to put a row of bricks directly onto the collar , bring the liner over this row of bricks and then lay another row . |
| 10 | Most of the birds that parasitise their own species lay one or more eggs in the nests of other birds , and then lay and rear a separate clutch themselves . |
| 11 | Female American jacanas may mate with up to four males at a time , sometimes within a few minutes , and then lay eggs in each male 's nest . |
| 12 | With a huge , exhausted yawn , she stretched and then lay spread-eagled , flat on her back . |
| 13 | Alternatively , you could create a small design as though it were in a vase or a natural spray , and then surround it with an archway of flowers This would then have no mount , but just a plainish frame , to avoid the overall effect seeming too cluttered . |
| 14 | Once the new house had been built is was often blocked in with a single course of concrete blocks and curiously enough today thirty five years later the modern method of building houses is to construct them all of wood and then surround them with a single course of concrete blocks . |
| 15 | She waited until the door was closed and then crossed to the window of her suite , pulling the curtains aside . |
| 16 | Anderton scored in the 26th minute after Barmby had headed Neil Ruddock 's cross back across the goal , delivered the corner that Teddy Sheringham converted after 44 minutes and then crossed for Barmby to score late in the first half . |
| 17 | She sighed and then inhaled the sweet scented air . |
| 18 | Churchyards were lacking ; in some cities the poor were soon shovelled underground in common graves , dug to an initial depth of 30ft and then filled with rough coffins to within 2ft of the surface . |
| 19 | Cracks in rendering should be raked out , cut back to sound material if necessary and then filled with new mortar . |
| 20 | A mould is made round it in detachable pieces , and in these a wax casting-mould is moulded or cast and then filled with a core ; and the bronze is cast from this as in the direct method . |
| 21 | In a water test , the drain is also stoppered and then filled with water to see whether this can be retained . |
| 22 | Cul-de-sacs skirt warily down to them and then peter out . |
| 23 | Can be a long interview and then condensed . |
| 24 | It tries to deduce what , if anything , the author has to say , and then nags him into saying it clearly . |
| 25 | Even tin — imagine , just imagine , my dear and most esteemed Advocate , one of those medical illustrations , those écorché figures showing the skeins of muscle , the ropes of veins , in three dimensions , and then transmuted into metal , so that the tissues and channels and ducts and gristle ’ — the speaker 's hands traced intricate forms in the air in his morbid enthusiasm — ‘ look as if they have been made out of silver wire . ’ |
| 26 | The French made countless varieties of goats ' milk cheeses which are often small and wrapped in a chestnut leaf and then tied with raffia ( see p67 ) . |
| 27 | He was a member of the teams which won in Ohio in 1987 and then tied at the Sutton Coldfield course two years later , and commented : ‘ Playing in the cup is the best thing ever . |
| 28 | It is useful to decide before the accounts system is installed on exactly what analysis is going to be needed and then design the books ( or buy the packages ) needed to meet these ends . |
| 29 | In making drills for practice , you first of all have to decide what the problem is and then design a drill to overcome it . |
| 30 | Erm you have to do , put it on and then design it . |