Example sentences of "and then [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Anyway , Burkha or no Burkha , one has to work , cutting the fodder , cleaning out the cowsheds , working in the fields at harvest time and then cooking and cleaning — and so many other tasks . |
| 32 | Research shows people would actually prefer the dignity of shopping for their own food and then cooking it themselves , with assistance . |
| 33 | And then cooking it . |
| 34 | Another had kept a continual eye on the grain trade by serving in a Red Army supply regiment and then managing a state grain-collecting centre . |
| 35 | Under this , the EPA is responsible for cleaning up the most contaminated sites and then recovering the cost from the bodies held responsible for the contamination . |
| 36 | ‘ It is like Nero throwing Christians to the lions and then promising them a grievance procedure , ’ he said . |
| 37 | Certain of his actions — including misleading the board over a transaction with Peter de Savary concerning a property development at Canvey and then concluding it without board approval — amounted to breaches of his fiduciary duty to Blue Arrow , the report says . |
| 38 | Dividing eqn ( 8.1 ) by and then multiplying by the square of the planet 's mass gives . |
| 39 | By totting up numbers for one group of estates , adding a notional 22 per cent for unrecorded children under twelve , and a further 25 per cent for other omissions , and then multiplying these for the whole of France , Lot calculated a population for Charles the Bald 's kingdom of 26 million . |
| 40 | The running yield is given by dividing the coupon by current market price and then multiplying the result by 100 in order to express it as a percentage . |
| 41 | The Arab shook his head , and then rising , touched his shoulder . |
| 42 | But such men were totally unwilling to embark on a diplomatic career by doing humdrum routine work or studying documents , and then rising step by slow step through a hierarchy of ranks . |
| 43 | In view of this one might consider presenting language as lexical units , both as single words and as complex packages , and then creating contexts which constrain the gradual elaboration of the first , the gradual analysis of the second . |
| 44 | Implicitly it is consistent with the first stage of a two-stage budgeting procedure , with investors initially deciding on the level of investment in a particular location and then determining the asset allocation of that investment . |
| 45 | They had set upon the turnkey , knocking him unconscious , and then gathering his keys , made for the gate . |
| 46 | In an adjournment debate in the Commons earlier this month , Mr Hood claimed that Mr Muncie 's ‘ luck ran out ’ for his favourite method of investigation — deciding who was guilty and then gathering evidence to prove it . |
| 47 | There was something very appealing about going through the papers with a pair of scissors in your hand and then sticking your clippings into a book . ’ |
| 48 | He learned this lesson this year in giving Kelly his chance pre-season and then sticking with him , even though many observers would have brought Kerslake or Sterland ( any news on him ? ) back . |
| 49 | No you could n't I mean er at you know the the doors would n't be open be I mean you know , you could picture a wardrobe without a door , but you were working you were sandpapering that on the inside and er maybe brushing it up and down and then sandpapering that again and then they had to go over with what we call the rubber . |
| 50 | As part of the internal assessment process , some self-assessment should be involved , through children 's discussing a piece of writing with the teacher or with their peers , and then redrafting it . |
| 51 | The count had a penchant for asking various well-known composers to write chamber works for him — for which they were handsomely paid — and then pretending to his friends that he himself was the composer . |
| 52 | Then clean the piece of glass really thoroughly , first washing and then drying it , either with a proper glass cloth so that no pieces of lint are spread over the surface , or using a proprietary glass cleaning product and a suitable cloth . |
| 53 | I spent a lot of time discovering and browsing through the bookshops , and then reading on the lawns which led down to the river Cam from the backs of the colleges . |
| 54 | The book was intended as the unpretentious account of a Devon lad who has just kept on writing and then reading the news . |
| 55 | He used to say that nothing could be more ludicrous than going to a football match and then reading somebody else 's account of what you had already seen . |
| 56 | He had tried reading isolated pages — reading three pages , skipping three , and then reading four . |
| 57 | Twice winner of the Paris event , seventh last year in London and then sprinting away in the final 200 metres to win the Berlin marathon ahead of Plaatjes , Brace has collected more money than he could have ever earned in his chosen profession of teaching . |
| 58 | It is a simple matter of first locating them , recognising the best time to do the job and then dealing with them by night netting , snaring , and so on . |
| 59 | Having survived the milling crowds at the station platforms ( in which they might easily be separated from brother or sister ) , children often found themselves bundled onto a train , not knowing their destination , and then enduring a long , slow journey in cramped coaches with no corridors or toilets . |
| 60 | Jon Scargill 's five-year-old has been in good spirits this year , finishing fourth to Night Clubbing on his reappearance at Newbury and then chasing home the well handicapped Azhar at Doncaster . |