Example sentences of "[conj] then [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Angelica had already decided that her money could be taken out of the petty cash and then lost in the books somewhere … and if ever they should be caught doing it , she did n't feel that it was a crime she 'd be ashamed of . |
| 32 | Foxe describes his last moments : ‘ He was brought forth to the place of execution , was there tied to the stake , and then strangled by the hangman , and afterwards with fire consumed in the morning at the town of Vilvorde , AD 1536 ; crying thus at the stake with a fervent zeal and a loud voice : ‘ Lord , open the King of England 's eyes ’ . ’ |
| 33 | Brussels sprouts , summer cabbage , calabrese and leeks can be sown in a seed bed — a nursery area of the vegetable plot where seedlings are grown and then transplanted to rows on the main plot at a later date . |
| 34 | The effects of this are most extreme at the poles , which are bathed in light for up to 24 hours a day over a short summer , and then plunged into twilight darkening to permanent night during the long polar winter . |
| 35 | She walked through the Jardin Albert-1er , with its picturesque fountain and outdoor theatre , and then plunged into the network of streets , all lined with their exquisite shops . |
| 36 | But as she moved instinctively beneath him he buried his face in her hair with a groan and then plunged into the very flower of her being . |
| 37 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 38 | She took a deep breath and then hastened after him ; it was cowardly but she was desperate for something , some insight , some new aspect that would save her from having to hate him . |
| 39 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 40 | Apart from an interval for lunch , the meeting continued until 3.30 p.m. and then adjourned until 7.00 p.m. to allow representatives to report to their parties and organisations . |
| 41 | The authorities claimed that they had been living illegally on land which had been allocated to others , in Khartoum suburbs such as Karmuta where large numbers of mud-brick houses had reportedly now been vacated and then destroyed by bulldozers . |
| 42 | These are first entered into a data file and then displayed on the relevant function diagram , and a graph is generated by straight lining between these points . |
| 43 | For a moment he glared at her , opened his mouth to deny everything , and then slumped in the chair , which creaked in protest . |
| 44 | They shook hands and then embraced like old friends . |
| 45 | The surface is then flushed with Solvent spray , allowed to dry and then sprayed with Developer . |
| 46 | Once an image has been scanned it can be scaled from ten to 200% of its original size , rotated or cropped , and then saved in a format such as TIFF , PCX or IMG. , for example . |
| 47 | Once an image has been scanned it can be scaled from ten to 200% of its original size , rotated or cropped , and then saved in a format such as TIFF , PCX or IMG. , for example . |
| 48 | In the latter year Ealdred consecrated the abbey church of St Peter in Gloucester , which he had rebuilt , and then travelled with great ceremony by way of Hungary to Jerusalem , where he gave a gold chalice worth five marks to the church of the Holy Sepulchre . |
| 49 | The flask arrived at Felixstowe and then travelled by road to Dounreay . |
| 50 | Davis from Richmond road in Oxford knocked her unconscious , threw her cycle into the river and then posed as a good Samaritan , pretending to comfort her , before attacking her again and trying to strangle her . |
| 51 | He showed scores of slides and then announced at the end of his presentation that each was from a different crag . |
| 52 | They took St-Léonard-de-Noblat by storm , massacred its inhabitants , and then swept on past Limoges to capture and sack Brantôme . |
| 53 | The Colonel inspected the guard and then received from the architects a gold key inscribed " Stockport Grammar School , 1487 " ; with this he unlocked the west door and declared the buildings open . |
| 54 | The mucosa was cut into 2 mm squares with a razor , incubated at 37°C for 30 minutes in calcium and magnesium free Hanks ' balanced salt solution ( CMFH ) containing 30 mM EDTA and then stirred in CMFH . |
| 55 | They found grasshoppers , beetles , slugs , caterpillars , spiders and then calculated on the basis of their findings that this three-and-a-half acre meadow must contain well over 100,000 large invertebrates . |
| 56 | According to some reports , the march was infiltrated by masked youths who stoned ground-floor windows of the Education Ministry and then moved through the city centre towards the Polytechnic , smashing shop windows and setting fire to two cars and a bus . |
| 57 | He gave a little tap on the floor with his foot and then moved towards the bed and gently ruffled Willie 's hair . |
| 58 | The Whites took Perm and then moved on Ekaterinberg . |
| 59 | Not surprisingly , therefore , import penetration increased from the mid 1960s onwards and then moved at an alarming rate in the early 1970s . |
| 60 | They both glanced behind them and then moved into the coloured shadows of the necromancer 's storeroom . |