Example sentences of "they then [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They then haul the prey back to the shell and slowly engulf it . |
| 2 | They then spent the rest of the lesson — the first part had taken twenty minutes — in writing an account of why Rome was settled where it was and comparing it with the legends that they knew concerning Rome . |
| 3 | They then sold the car to W , another dealer , who , although he inspected it , remained unaware that there was anything wrong with it . |
| 4 | The bats just decided to smash me around the island , and for every bag of boundaries they hit they then made a mistake . |
| 5 | This they did , and they then determined the nucleotide sequence of the gene , and thus the protein it codes for . |
| 6 | They then asked the board questions and a pointer on the board moved to either ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ to give them an answer . |
| 7 | They then reduced the lighting level and were even more puzzled by the fact that productivity improved once more . |
| 8 | They then raised the money to build a replica tower one-third the size in 1891 . |
| 9 | They then analyse the interrelationship of these data using various statistical techniques in an effort to isolate the importance of the various factors for the number of hours worked . |
| 10 | The jurors , having appeared before the king , were induced , probably by threats of amercement and imprisonment , to acknowledge their error and to modify their perambulations ; they then received the king 's pardon . |
| 11 | Rather these books exhibit concrete problem-solutions that the profession has come to accept as paradigms , and they then ask the student , either with a pencil and paper , or in the laboratory , to solve for himself problems very closely related both in method and substance to those which the text or accompanying lecture has led him through . |
| 12 | They then combine the hydrogen with carbon dioxide to form sugars and release the oxygen into the atmosphere . |
| 13 | They then drank a peptone meal over five minutes consisting of two beef cubes ( OXO Ltd , Croydon , UK ) dissolved in 200 ml water at 50°C . |
| 14 | They then set the price of oil at its loading port and found outlets for it in world markets . |
| 15 | They then searched the house to find out whether Bland , of Prior Dene , Darlington , was inside . |
| 16 | BKZ consider that this effect of previous history results from the stored elastic energy in the configuration at a previous time and they then assume the stress at time t to be the sum of all the contributions from all . |
| 17 | They then fan the water so that it evaporates and in doing so lowers the temperature . |
| 18 | They then followed a path in the lee of the mountains to Loch Cluanie ( near which the upper and lower roads converge ) and thence Glen Shiel . |
| 19 | They then use the information in their stories but retain their holier-than-thou attitude by writing : ‘ Mr Bernard Ingham told lobby journalists … ’ |
| 20 | The speed with which they then became an issue , however , shows that they were real enough . |
| 21 | The speed with which they then became an issue , however , shows that they were real enough . |
| 22 | They then pass the egg and spoon to the next Brownie in the line who runs in the same way . |
| 23 | They then discovered the shaft 's brittle shale walls made it almost impossible to get out again . |
| 24 | When , after a period of confusion , subjects began to realize , or were told , that there were anomalous cards among the pack ; they then had no trouble correctly identifying all the cards shown to them , anomalous or otherwise . |
| 25 | They then consumed a peptone meal over five minutes consisting of two beef cubes ( OCO Ltd , Croydon , UK ) dissolved in 200 ml water at 50°C , 75 ml of semi-skimmed milk , and 20 g cornflakes ( Kellogg 's ) . |
| 26 | But if they go once with a group , they then go a second , and third and fourth times by themselves . |
| 27 | They then scan the tip across the sample , keeping the current constant by moving the tip up and down very slightly . |
| 28 | They then commandeered a battery operated amplifier and two loudspeakers from the local constituency association , and via the roof of one of their cars set up an excellent PA system . |
| 29 | Predicting : students look at the title of the passage and discuss their expectations in pairs ; they then write down ten words they expect to find ; they then read the passage and see if their words appear . |
| 30 | Extracting main ideas : students choose one of six statements which gives ‘ the most accurate summary of the passage as a whole ’ ; they decide who is responsible for the destruction of the jungle from four alternatives ; they then read the passage again and make notes on how to save the jungle . |