Example sentences of "then [vb pp] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem was then pointed out to us and we had to employ a plumber to put matters right . |
| 2 | She was present at the birth of the Blessed Virgin , who was then given over to her care for twelve years , and at the Visitation and the birth of St John the Baptist and even at the birth of the Saviour , when she was allowed to provide bedding for the Virgin and swathing-clothes for the Child . |
| 3 | In the first the message is received in full and is then given out to the person ; in the second the message is received and is simultaneously translated into the second language . |
| 4 | Jean-Paul looked down at his own oiled body , then spat on to his palm for added lubrication . |
| 5 | Lambert was then flown out to Gibraltar in Sqn.Ldr . |
| 6 | It is then placed on to the inked drum of a duplicating machine ( Fig. 6.9 ) and the ink is then forced through the cuts in the stencil and the copy is produced on absorbent paper . |
| 7 | In the case of practitioners , who are now included in the disputes procedure , that 's , that is then referred up to the Family Health Service Authority . |
| 8 | If they were grubby , you were told to put your hand out and you had a cut with cane , a punishment which was then meted out to the other hand , followed by the order — ‘ Go and wash ’ . |
| 9 | The hemiplegic leg is then lifted back to the floor , the trouser leg is pulled a little further up the thigh , and anchored in place by the patient crossing his unaffected leg over it . |
| 10 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
| 11 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 12 | The element is first placed on the stripping machine where the contaminated cladding is cut away , then dropped on to a conveyor belt to be stored under water in concrete storage silos . |
| 13 | KMnO 4 was then added up to 4 mM and incubation continued for 30 seconds at 37°C . |
| 14 | A high-pass filter was used to isolate the local ( high-frequency ) variation which was then added back to the image so that the local component was effectively doubled , thus amplifying or exaggerating its importance . |
| 15 | As a mere formality , Minton , like others , was then reappointed on to the staff . |
| 16 | She clutched again and again at her stomach with her crossed arms , then rolled on to her side and lay moaning , her face contorted with pain . |
| 17 | He enveloped her mouth in one last , languid taking , then rolled on to the pillow beside her . |
| 18 | This is always agreed to and the Bill is then reported back to the House . |
| 19 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 20 | FURTHER intelligence about the amazing Mr Humphrey Berkeley , who left the Conservative Party after bequeathing it an elective system for choosing its leaders , joined Labour , then moved on to the SDP , only to resign from it , too . |
| 21 | Led by Geoff Miller as Botham was attending Viv Richards ' wedding — to which fifty people were invited and two thousand turned up — they beat the Leeward Islands and then moved on to Antigua for the inaugural Test at St John 's , West Indies ' first new Test ground since the opening series of 1929–30 . |
| 22 | The man replaced the blanket , and then moved on to another corpse . |
| 23 | He dusted it a little , to marvel better , and then moved on to the glass coffin . |
| 24 | The witch-hunt then moved on to try to unseat the editor of Borba and it is clearly the intention of the Serbian nationalists , who have seized control of the Serbian Party , that they should control all newspapers and journals published in Belgrade , even if they are federal organs such as Borba . |
| 25 | ‘ Water Babies ’ featured Linda Frew and June Milligan feeding our sea-lions , and starred the new baby sea-lion ; and then moved on to the young penguins next door . |
| 26 | After breaking the windows , enraged by the early departure of the guests , the mob set fire to two meeting places and then moved on to Priestley 's house . |
| 27 | He began with lipstick tubes , which were too light , and then moved on to sawing the ends off motorcycle handlebars . |
| 28 | The service 's interest began with his trade with Russia , then moved on to the Iran-Iraq war and the build-up to the Gulf crisis . |
| 29 | He learned to fly on Caudrons at Hendon and then moved on to BE.2s . |
| 30 | Injury wrecked his plans but with the cash his haulage business brought him he became chairman of Oldham Athletic in his early thirties , then moved on to Wigan . |