Example sentences of "then [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man did n't need telling twice , and as the boy began to follow him , Connor suddenly remembered : at some time during the evening , when the saloon till ran short of change , he had put in some silver of his own and taken out a fiver — then stuffed it in a pewter tankard on the shelf for safekeeping . |
| 2 | And we do n't even have to wait ‘ til then to see them . |
| 3 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |
| 4 | What an effort , and then to see it wasted . |
| 5 | Smadja argues that knowledge of relations such as these is necessary to both understanding and generation , and he outlines an approach for automatically acquiring such restrictions from a corpus , and then using it to augment an existing lexicon . |
| 6 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 7 | Probably the single most important step in the whole process is learning how to make up a grid and then using it to control the structure of a document . |
| 8 | That member may then think it appropriate to tell him . |
| 9 | ‘ Then lose them , ’ I say . |
| 10 | ‘ It was disappointing to play so well at times and then lose it in that one spell . |
| 11 | Clipbox is an on-line digital disk-based presentation system , which takes images off a tape , puts them on a disk in an intelligent disk array , and then plays them . |
| 12 | Research shows people would actually prefer the dignity of shopping for their own food and then cooking it themselves , with assistance . |
| 13 | And then cooking it . |
| 14 | Copy the formula from your spreadsheet and then paste it into Word for Windows . |
| 15 | To get rid of the file from DOS , use the Attrib command to reset the file attributes , remove the R attribute and then delete it . |
| 16 | To deny herself equally , she acknowledged bitterly , still painfully aware of her body 's aching need for fulfilment as she pulled the straps of her dress up over her shoulders and then zipped it up swiftly . |
| 17 | Meanwhile her friend walked as far as the bike , then rode it to the point where he met Lorna , who then rode further while he walked … and so on . |
| 18 | His son Kieran then succeeded him and retained his seat there until 1989 when he did not seek re-election . |
| 19 | That is , when we inform someone by means of language we retrieve a message from our model of reality and by means of the encoding and decoding of language transfer it to the addressee , who then fits it into his own model of reality . |
| 20 | A wave slapped the back of his neck , first throwing him upwards then drawing him down , and he slid beneath the surface like a waterlogged spar . |
| 21 | He kept trying to put his near-side front paw to the ground and then drawing it up again , hopping on three legs . |
| 22 | The design is created by wrapping a weft thread around four ( or sometimes more ) warp strands and then drawing it back and wrapping it around two , a technique of " looped " weaving not dissimilar to the way fishermen make their nets . |
| 23 | Formed by looping the pile yarn through two warp strands and then drawing it back through one . |
| 24 | I think they 've all got their own washing machines on the ward and that sort of thing , whereas we had to do it by hand and then bundle it all up and send it down to the laundry . |
| 25 | Its end is both sticky and muscular so that a toad can use it first to grasp a worm or a slug and then to carry it bodily back to the mouth . |
| 26 | Was she having a sly laugh at his expense , talking nonsense and then cornering him with a sudden question ? |
| 27 | This annual service charge is an object of some suspicion as far as many would-be buyers are concerned , and in some countries there is legislation to protect buyers against developers who set the charge low initially and then raise it excessively later . |
| 28 | She can lower the drawbridge for you , then raise it again without hindrance . |
| 29 | My idea is to get the whole ballet worked out as a mere skeleton , and then embroider it when the cast know it . ’ |
| 30 | He looked down miserably , and then wiped them away . |