Example sentences of "then [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electricians also incurred the displeasure of fellow trade union leaders by making no-strike agreements with employers , arranging private health care facilities for workers , and then secretly negotiating with the Murdoch press for jobs at the new Wapping plant . |
| 2 | Was she then secretly distressed by the thought that she had failed him ? |
| 3 | You pushed it away to the back recesses of your mind , but it crept and crawled about and then annoyingly broke through the surface again . |
| 4 | Relatively few studies begin with an explicit ( ex-ante ) theory which is then rigorously tested against the data . |
| 5 | The unfortunate tragedy was a talking point in the district for several weeks but then slowly receded into the aeons of time . |
| 6 | Auntie sighed , hesitated , then slowly climbed up the stairs to her bedroom again . |
| 7 | I shall then fourthly look at the various ways in which Christian feminists try to relate to and to appropriate the biblical material . |
| 8 | The components of e are evaluated , the results are then all assigned to the locations represented by x , and the process then terminates . |
| 9 | In East Berlin on Feb. 7 the three left-wing citizens ' movements ( New Forum , Democracy Now and Initiative for Peace and Human Rights — by then all represented in the government ) agreed to campaign together as the Electoral Alliance " 90 ( Wahlbündnis " 90 ) . |
| 10 | It is positively helpful if his poems are written out as prose ( as they actually often are in the case of those lyrics embedded in prose treatises as opposed to independent lyrics ) because they are then naturally read for the speaking voice and not with any expectation of the regularity roused by the sight of poetic form . |
| 11 | If it is a view you are after , then better to go to the top of the Pic du Midi than remain down on the col , for from there the prospect has for long been famous , especially to the north over the plains and , on a good day , westward to the Atlantic . |
| 12 | She rose , ran across the room , unlocked the door , and then swiftly retreated to the bed again — not to lie on it , but to sit on it , huddled against the end , one shoulder against the iron railings of its head , hands primly in her lap , feet side by side , her whole posture defensive . |
| 13 | Ken Bowman was then democratically voted into the treasurer 's position . |
| 14 | He followed it for two blocks , in the inside lane , then suddenly cut across the traffic to the centre , executed a left U-turn and returned to the Platz der Einheit . |
| 15 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 16 | He then suddenly drops to the ground on the left knee , placing the left hand on the floor in front of him . |
| 17 | Sunday was not much better ; Miss Huntley had not risen from her bed until one p.m. and had not left the flat until five , then only to go to the cinema . |
| 18 | The plaintiffs , that is the Lebanon , Croatia and Hungary , will be anxious to see those parts of Sotheby 's evidence which had been blacked out in the documents made available to them , and then only shown to the court . |
| 19 | Fiery pace bowler Hughes seems certain to escape punishment after it appeared he spat at Greatbatch and then obscenely gestured to the crowd when the Kiwi batsman was dismissed . |
| 20 | As the two mid-price discs are available separately , Elgarians may care to sample the first which includes the most ambitious of the Harmony Music ( in four parts , the first lasting nearly 12 minutes ) , the five Intermezzos and two descriptive slow pieces , then perhaps moving on the second . |
| 21 | As soon as we got there , I started yelling for I was really scared , thought I should drown , but the grown-ups just laughed and off we slid , down the steep slope to hit the water with a mighty splash , then gently floated to the other side of the pool to disembark . |
| 22 | The victim settles horizontally , floating downwind as it waddles side to side , then gently descends to the earth . |
| 23 | The stomach was then gently delivered onto the abdominal wall . |
| 24 | The best way to clean gold is to use a specially formulated cleaner and then gently brush with the soft brush provided , to remove any grease or dirt . |
| 25 | He tells you the price per Chinese pound , and then merely points to the scales to show the weight . |
| 26 | Local changes are then progressively made to the parse tree and the resultant parses evaluated . |
| 27 | Such prayers are then easily assimilated to the offering of the Mass , a ritual which keeps alive the paradigmatic reality of the Incarnation . |
| 28 | A liberal spraying of Waxoyl diluted by white spirit is then easily taken into the metal where it continues to preserve from within . |
| 29 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 30 | ‘ Once they have been used , tennis balls are then generally ignored by the members . |