Example sentences of "[conj] then [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | We took a rickety public bus with him twenty miles out of town and then struck out on foot for several hours into the wilderness . |
| 2 | They find some woollen garment or other soft furnishing in the house and then settle down on it in a contented fashion . |
| 3 | His plan was to wait until Pearman had left , and then creep up on the baker 's young wife , knock her unconscious with the cudgel , and be off with the takings . |
| 4 | A stroll in the moonlight by the old St Joseph 's seminary and the lake , and then looking down on the lights of Wigan . |
| 5 | Finally , I thought I 'd call Connors and then catch up on some sack . |
| 6 | Tiny hummingbirds fly down from New England into Louisiana and then take off on a non-stop sea-crossing of five hundred miles across the Bay of Mexico to the Yucatan Peninsula and the warm jungles of Central and South America . |
| 7 | Both carburettors have been overhauled and then ret up on a crypton machine . |
| 8 | looked at some trains and then went back on the D M U. |
| 9 | First he dispossessed Hendrie in full flight and then set off on a spectacular 50-yard solo run down the right . |
| 10 | ‘ I would do that for about four days , and then go off on something else . |
| 11 | So the best thing is to put the piece of paper in in a wadge and then come out on the outside and pack it vertically and put them next to each other like that . |
| 12 | Such a shame to come all the way here and then miss out on skiing . ’ |
| 13 | He finishes after a bit and then jumps up on the window ledge . |
| 14 | Or Lisa and Tamla , two ‘ fat momma beauticians ’ who will ‘ strip down nude and shave a white man 's cock and balls with shaving cream … and then chow down on powdered donuts ’ . |
| 15 | Town 's drugs are often made in Britain , flown to the Far East or some other convenient staging post and then brought back on the next night — to be sold more cheaply than if they had never left Britain . |
| 16 | Those who could not escape put in a token appearance , showing themselves before the delegates from their local constituency association and then scuttling off on the first train back to civilization . |
| 17 | In the end , EGBT were willing to put in more money for a more environmentally-friendly mode of working , and we agreed that the planings would be off-loaded at the end of the path , and then ferried in on dumper trucks . |
| 18 | So gi , they 'll probably go down to Munich and then drop down on the motorway from Munich |
| 19 | The crowds who gathered on Alexanderplatz and then moved off on a winding trail through East Berlin were in any case convinced he was their man . |
| 20 | All that happens is that the animal waits until the treated garments are discarded and then homes in on some other , more suitable surface . |
| 21 | Faye said nothing more about it , but when they got home she announced that she would take her blood-sugar level and evening insulin dose in her room and then lie down on her bed until dinner . |
| 22 | He hitch-hikes to San Francisco , lives briefly in a commune , and then sets off on a journey with two of its members , Lockett and Meridith . |
| 23 | After resting for a while , it suddenly gets up , looks around and then sets off on one of its mad dashes . |
| 24 | He comes home at 8am to snatch an hour 's snooze and then sets off on the bus for a full day 's preaching to the people whose failing legs ca n't get them to church . |
| 25 | Hazel rose on his hind legs , paused , and then sat back on his haunches , in full view . |
| 26 | Sir Roy Strong stumbles off the block with his opening sentence ‘ The portrait was a child of the renaissance ’ , which seems to have forgotten about classical antiquity , but then sets off on a thought-provoking and terse survey of themes and ideas throughout the three centuries covered by the book . |