Example sentences of "then [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She used the cry of her voice to draw them to her , allowing them first to fly away and then encouraging them to swoop back at the height of their arc of flight . |
| 2 | But they then insist you take out this insurance so if you 're off sick |
| 3 | The taxi dropped off one of the passengers , and the offenders instructed the driver to take them to a farm club , and then asked him to turn down a farm track . |
| 4 | It is to make them by accelerating two beams of protons up to energies of 20TeV and then colliding them head on . |
| 5 | Songs like ‘ High As A Kite ’ , ‘ Drop The Bomb ’ and ‘ Highway 's Gate ’ scrape the sky and then bring it crashing down to earth . |
| 6 | She brought water , a fresh towel and a wet flannel for Faye , then helped her to lie back on her left side . |
| 7 | I then want you to write down as many of the words as you can remember and in any order you wish . |
| 8 | ‘ You ca n't make love to me like that and then expect me to carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 9 | ‘ White , would you think ? ’ she asked , her voice a high squeak , then let her breath out in an explosion of relief as she heard the shop door open and close . |
| 10 | He squatted and started to pick them up , then let them drop back to the floor and just crouched there and put his hands over his face and started to cry . |
| 11 | But it 's important not to say they 've only got two minutes for something , and then let them go on for ten . |
| 12 | On the one hand , Parliament did not trust the police enough to give them the power they wanted and then let them get on with it . |
| 13 | Note that to get the divisions to operate as we wish , all we have to do is to impose a transfer price and then let them get on with it . |
| 14 | First , though , give him the benefit of a voluntary defence , possibly against Alex Stewart , and then let him get on with making us all feel good about finally having another British world heavyweight champion . |
| 15 | If he was the Christ , the King of Israel , then let him come down from the cross and convince people . |
| 16 | You made silly , empty requests and then let me walk out of your life . |
| 17 | If what we look like can influence how we feel about ourselves and influence other people 's attitudes , then let us cash in on it by taking an interest in appearance . |
| 18 | ‘ Then let us get on with the business that must be discussed . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Did you think that I would make love to you for a few days and then let you walk out of my life without trying to get in touch ? ’ |
| 20 | If the pointer is moving slowly back , then let it go back to the edge of the circle ; then 1 turn towards the movement 2°-5° ( according to rate of change ) until it is steady . |
| 21 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 22 | Was it two times that 's what I do and then and then let it harden off and then |
| 23 | ‘ It 's so frustrating — like having someone twitch a curtain aside then let it fall back again before I can see properly . ’ |
| 24 | I venture that the real reason Labour 's spin-doctors raised electoral reform in a clumsy and cynical way on Democracy Day , and then let it get out of control , was that none of them had actually read the Plant report . |
| 25 | Norm then told him to carry on just playing for as long as he could . |
| 26 | Jessica , in no mood for talking sense , told him it was a private party , which caused roars of laughter that were not directed maliciously at him , then told him to fuck off off her back , which raised a cheer that very probably was . |
| 27 | The whistling and clicking of fingers roused Joy 's attention , so collecting her pad then pen she wandered over to the table on the right . |
| 28 | The teacher had discussed a topic with the children , and then encouraged them to write down sentences constructed from words used in their own speech . |
| 29 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 30 | He would probably land and then tell them to walk back . |