Example sentences of "then [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They forced him to draw money from a cash machine and then made him drive to his home in Moulton where they threatened his parents with a kitchen knife . |
| 2 | The intern cleaned me up then made me lie on a trolley in a curtained cubicle . |
| 3 | ‘ We say he took her life and then made it look as if it was suicide . ’ |
| 4 | I then asked him to comment on the extent to which recommendations to the Senior Management Team contained in the report appeared to have been implemented . |
| 5 | Mr McNally then asked him to indicate to the court any evidence which arose out of the two interviews held yesterday . |
| 6 | The manager , warmer than ever now , bustled down the aisle and made a short but moving speech about power-cuts and projectors , then asked us to bear with him . |
| 7 | She turns round and you say something in then goes you know with absolutely no whatsoever and she turns round and goes like that like Jay does . |
| 8 | Many of them are made by floating the freshly gathered blossoms on pure water and then allowing them to sit in the sunshine for a few hours . |
| 9 | It intends to demo the stuff at NeXt World next week and then sell them separate from NeXtstep . |
| 10 | It 's a cruel thing and especially to hit a boy on his right hand and then expect him to write with it . |
| 11 | They 've rubbed shoulders with Spinal Tap on the West Coast , they 've ‘ schmoozed ’ with David Cassidy , Brinsley Forde and Huey Lewis at a San Francisco garden party , they 've been driven around the Hollywood Hills in a convertible by an A&M rep who then let them stare at his Moray eels , smashed , for two hours . |
| 12 | Bring the palms back to shoulder height , turn the palms to face down and then , as you breathe out , push the palms down and then let them rest at your sides . |
| 13 | He trained the bees whose ocelli had been painted to a food dish , and then let them dance to their unpainted hive mates under an electric light bulb . |
| 14 | If they 're whingeing because they have n't got quite the times they hoped for , then let them complain into your shell-like ear for a change . |
| 15 | Even though mammals lavish such care and attention on their young , they still have the same two options open to insects and fish , crabs and reptiles — whether to concentrate their energies on producing as many young as possible and then let them fend for themselves , or whether to restrict the numbers to very few but look after them carefully . |
| 16 | Halzen plans to put his phototubes into holes melted in the ice sheet , then let them freeze in place . |
| 17 | One can not train students and then let them fall off the end of the course into a professional abyss . |
| 18 | She led Midnight to a clear patch and then let him walk on the long rein , so that she stayed still and he walked round her in a circle at the end of the rein . |
| 19 | Sunderland , who travel to Blackburn on Wednesday night for their penultimate game of the season , had hoped to come to a compromise arrangement which would have enabled them to use Rogan against Swindon and then let him travel to Belfast before tomorrow night 's game . |
| 20 | So Harrison had lost the first fall unfairly : in the second he had twisted his man feet up and then let him crash to the ground . |
| 21 | ‘ If he wants to behave no better than an animal , then let him wallow in it , ’ she told him , and no amount of cajoling would persuade her otherwise . |
| 22 | " Tell Master Amyas , " he said , loud enough for Amyas to hear , " that if his benighted father has anything to say to me , then let him get on his ass and come and say it to me direct , because he wo n't get me setting foot on his popish property , not while there 's breath in my body , he wo n't . " |
| 23 | ‘ Then let me arrange for the two of you to meet . ’ |
| 24 | For his sake then let us give of our best , in every sense of that term . |
| 25 | Then let us talk of more pleasant matters . |
| 26 | " Then let us burn in hell for it . " |
| 27 | Then let us speak of other matters . |
| 28 | I says yeah I says she told me to do it , I says and then let you listen to it . |
| 29 | Standing up , he whirled the triple-pronged metal three times to gain momentum , then let it go on the third upswing . |
| 30 | Then let it rest for twenty to thirty minutes . |