Example sentences of "then [vb base] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hook a triple transfer tool in three needles at left of centre , pull the needles to E position then push back to A position — once the stitches are on the transfer tool , it is safe to lift them out of the needles . |
| 2 | Dip a cotton bud into cuticle-remover and go round each cuticle , then push back with a rubber-tipped hoofstick . |
| 3 | Mix well , then bind together with a little beaten egg . |
| 4 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |
| 5 | He saw it break its flight over a dell between the dunes , soar vertically and then head off at an angle . |
| 6 | These materials then flatten out as a disc surrounding the young star — to ultimately condense into planets . |
| 7 | Her style is to run around the mat , changing direction at a moment 's notice , and then fly in for a throw . |
| 8 | ‘ My mother will probably have a very genteel fit of hysteria , and my father will mutter something about it being a ‘ damn shame ’ and your not being ‘ the right kind of girl ’ , and then stomp off for a game of golf . |
| 9 | In each test , one of them would don a mask painted with either normal-sized eyes or extra-large ones , and then walk directly towards a basking iguana . |
| 10 | It is easy to mark around a dinner plate and then cut out with a sharp knife . |
| 11 | As the text of the gospels was dissected , there came indeed to appear layers or strata ; some bits looked earlier than others ; the documents were made up out of a weaving of stories and sayings circulating in the earliest Church and then put together by a single hand or more than one hand . |
| 12 | I was asked to clean down with blanket wash and then run over with a clean polishing rag . |
| 13 | At the agreed hour I reported to the Endoscopy Unit of the London Clinic , was shown into a small room , told to undress and put on a blue shift , then lie down on a mobile bed . |
| 14 | But the book 's publishers should be warned : if searches for extraterrestrial intelligence ever pay off , then stand by for an avalanche of orders from interested parties . |
| 15 | And then look forward to a winter date with the man in the flesh at the Ulster Hall on October 19 . |
| 16 | Using a wash-down hose , rinse out the oven and then finish off to a fine sparkle with a quick wipe around . |
| 17 | I always join one shoulder seam before cutting out the front and back sections , then finish off with a sandwich neck-band that will stretch and look good . |
| 18 | Cover the sausage completely , then wrap around with a bacon rasher . |
| 19 | Sometimes he was too sick to eat anything all day , but other days he would sleep for a while and then get up for a meal . |
| 20 | ‘ Then get home for a couple of hours . |
| 21 | Spoon the chocolate mixtures alternately into the tin , then swirl together with a skewer . |
| 22 | Thus , someone who is primarily in an anorexic phase , using starvation as his or her prime method of control over emotions and relationships , may have episodes of bingeing and then starve again as a method of gaining further , illusory , control and in order to control the physical consequences of the binge . |
| 23 | We then stack up in a data matrix of 1,536 rows all such data matrices for all subjects on both attempts . |
| 24 | As far as I know , there are only two still in existence : one , the U.505 , was captured by an American task force towards the end of the war , towed up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes to Chicago where a special cradle was built for it to cross the Lake Shore Drive and then set up in a little house of its own in the Museum of Science and Industry . |
| 25 | He then set out in a violent storm and heavy snow for Fort William , where he hoped to take the oath in the presence of the local commander of government troops . |
| 26 | When he reached the gates , pushing through the children , he looked both ways along the main road , then set off at a trot in the general direction of the Stones ' household , several miles away . |
| 27 | She extracted him determinedly and set him down on his feet , whereupon he wobbled perilously backwards and forwards , then set off at a tremendous pace across the courtyard , with his mother following , calling apologies back to Caroline as she disappeared from view . |
| 28 | Within ten minutes the shark was visible but it then set off on a strong deep dive taking 100 yards of line despite a heavy drag setting . |
| 29 | First he dispossessed Hendrie in full flight and then set off on a spectacular 50-yard solo run down the right . |
| 30 | The gang told the woman they were heading towards Widnes , and they then set off in a blue car . |