Example sentences of "[conj] then [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was therefore tempting , and usually easy , to import excessive quantities of goods and then resell them at a profit to local merchants , " from whom " , wrote Callières in 1697 , " they receive a tribute , for lending their names to defraud the Sovereign of his dues " . |
| 2 | I said I 'm on a YTS , she went oh she said I do n't know if you 're for them , I said er well if you do n't I 'll find out and then tell you at the she goes , yeah , we 'll do that she says but I do , I do n't know if owe have to pay for them or not , you know she said I think you 're supposed to have a form . |
| 3 | Just days before the sale , Allied bumped up their prices by a quarter and then offered everything at ‘ 25 per cent off ’ . |
| 4 | It flicked behind each dimpled knee ; and then scourged her at intervals from her pretty ankles to her shoulder blades . |
| 5 | If the helicopter is moving , to stop it you must apply an opposite control movement and then remove it at the precise moment that the helicopter stops . |
| 6 | The secret of AST 's success , he claims , is that it designs , engineers and manufactures its own products , and then sells them at a competitive price via resellers , which add software and value-added services . |
| 7 | Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year . |
| 8 | She once again passed Drew in the street at about 5.10 and then saw him at the theatre at 6.30 , when he came into her dressing room to ask if his make-up was correct . |
| 9 | I did it there originally and then did it at festivals all over the country . |
| 10 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 11 | Fujitsu and Hitachi have made no effort to leapfrog IBM by introducing entirely new machines , for this would defeat the plug-compatible strategy : to let IBM create the demand and then meet it at lower prices . |
| 12 | Tell them what you 're going to tell them before you tell them , and then summarise it at the end and tell them what you told them . |
| 13 | To overcome this waste , I sow several hundred extra brassicas in the greenhouse in March ( cabbage , red cabbage , brussels sprouts , cauliflower , and broccoli ) , bed them out at four-inch spacing in the vegetable garden in early May and then transplant them at two-foot intervals into the headlands after horse-hoeing in June . |
| 14 | Or did you imagine I did nothing else all day but case joints and then rob them at night ? ’ |
| 15 | She just puts March ninety eight and then leave it at that . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's no good getting to Wembley this season and then finding ourselves at Barnsley in September . |
| 17 | If anybody wants to employ them , they should know before , and then employ them at their own risk . |
| 18 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 19 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 20 | Very often a student creates his first phrase and then finds himself at a loss . |
| 21 | In the final stages of the peace-making at Utrecht in 1713 the representatives of the different powers avoided many of the difficulties and delays which had marked earlier such conferences by entering the meeting-place in the town hall pêle-mêle ( i.e. in no particular order ) and then seating themselves at a round table which had no head . |
| 22 | The Poles bore the massive burden of state subsidies and international debt repayments first to create Gdynia and then to run it at rates that would undercut the Danzig trade . |
| 23 | Thank God for dome tents with two bays : you collect snow from one end for tea , pass it through the middle-man , and then deposit it at the other end . |
| 24 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |