Example sentences of "and then put " in BNC.
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| 1 | To go to the one man in the world most interested in seeing that the evidence never came out and then to put into his hands the means of ensuring that it never could come out ! |
| 2 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 3 | Poison was traditionally a ‘ woman 's weapon ’ — but would a woman bake a cake for a competition and then put poison on it ? |
| 4 | As Edward Pechter puts it , ‘ History does not tell us what the text is , because we decide what history is , and then put history into the text , rather than the other way round . ’ |
| 5 | As the text of the gospels was dissected , there came indeed to appear layers or strata ; some bits looked earlier than others ; the documents were made up out of a weaving of stories and sayings circulating in the earliest Church and then put together by a single hand or more than one hand . |
| 6 | I think if one looks at life and says : ‘ If I was doing that job , what are the conditions I would like to work in ? ’ , and then put them into operation , people will probably think it 's about right . |
| 7 | I have taken engines out of cars , rebuilt them and then put them back , but I have never carried out a conversion before . |
| 8 | She hurriedly rubbed herself dry , and then put on the dress Bryce had taken from the wardrobe . |
| 9 | Greg hit a good drive at the 18th and then put a 3-iron on the green . |
| 10 | From this the person is expected to identify strengths and weaknesses in performance and then put forward proposals for change . |
| 11 | In the block we start running from just in front of the ladder , but on the night we 've first of all got to run from the block to the wire , which is twenty yards away in the nearest place and then put the ladder up . |
| 12 | Like we 've had women who have wet their knickers and then put them on the radiator to dry , or just swilled them out in the sink and end up with a smelly room . |
| 13 | The digested sludge is dried in open pits and then put back into the pigs ' feed in a proportion of one part to 10 . |
| 14 | Simple — I take the other two pairs to suitable positions , then exchange them , and then put them back whore I found them . |
| 15 | Breeze read this through three times , and then put out the light . |
| 16 | And then put up with Geoffrey Boycott saying ‘ Dear oh dear oh dear that were a terrible shot ’ twice an over ? |
| 17 | Where they do not exist it can be presumed that either the genuine silver-gilt coronet was used at the funeral and then put back into the strongroom after the funeral , or they have disintegrated . |
| 18 | First place the hardboard on the working surface , then the foam , followed by the fabric , card or mounted backing , and then put the glass in a safe but accessible place . |
| 19 | Paul has just that transformation in mind when he tells the Ephesians to put off the old self , be made new in the attitudes of their minds , and then put on the new self , ‘ created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness ’ ( Eph. 4:20–4 ) . |
| 20 | It is not the commonly occurring long drawn out explanatory warning ( 'If you do n't stop whining I 'll get cross with you and then put you in time out until you stop' ) . |
| 21 | And then put the phone down , and waited for us to ring back to find out what she was demanding . |
| 22 | We write it out in longhand , each of the 700 or so entries on individual sheets of A4 paper and then put them into alphabetical order . ’ |
| 23 | Maxwell examined the letter in silence , let the Consul General read it and then put it back into the Captain 's open hand . |
| 24 | He then requested flares for landing and then put out an SOS that they were on fire . |
| 25 | Anna put the sandwich on a plate , and then put the plate on the table , beside the moss . |
| 26 | We need a more active approach to the promotion of new knowledge provided by research … to carry out large numbers of research projects and then put them on shelves and in pigeon holes is appallingly wasteful , as is also the vast amount of information available in hundreds of central and local government reports published each year and then forgotten , and never collated or analysed within an overall framework of reference . |
| 27 | The answer to such situations is to always say ‘ Yes , sir , of course we can do it , ’ and then put the telephone down , swear loudly and sit down and work how you are going to do it . |
| 28 | He sniffed again and then put a paw up to the wall . |
| 29 | It 's pointless to take notes and then put them away until exam revision . |
| 30 | and then put your thing on there and it should be just the case of turning it off |