Example sentences of "then [vb -s] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artistic variations are inexhaustible but can be summarised under three headings : ( 1 ) The retreat backwards : the object has his attention and face directed towards the subject … in love or fear … as he moves pace by backward pace into the middle distance ; then turns and hastens away . |
| 2 | It then turns and pounces on it triumphantly , as if a fish scooped up from a river or stream has been landed on the bank and must be secured before it wriggles its way back to the safety of the water . |
| 3 | Then turns and tramples on it . |
| 4 | well he has I mean er my my daughter-in-law said he takes he mu he very often drives he 's got a season ticket , an annual season ticket t er to take the train but more often than not he drives because he gets into the into London at about quarter to seven in the morning he goes and you know , parks the car and then goes and gets breakfast and she says he always takes at least one shirt in the car with him to change into . |
| 5 | ) She sits in silence for a few minutes , simply to breathe in the company of others , then goes and brings me my soup , followed by potatoes , onion and a fried egg . |
| 6 | This sentence structure then develops as set out in Fig 3. 1 . |
| 7 | Progressively the A examines both the P and C data , evaluates it according to experience and then accepts or rejects it . |
| 8 | teacher takes register and then describes and allocates tasks ; |
| 9 | That when you expose great portions of the roof , unsupported , then you increase the possibilities of a roof fall which comes back on through to the supported area of the roof and then injures or kills someone . |
| 10 | Reddy calculates that , rather than costing more , environmentally benign energy will cost far less then plans that continue with the energy policies of the past . |
| 11 | They drag what they find into the tunnel , eat some of it and deposit the rest , which then rots and helps to feed the plants . |
| 12 | If he then varies or strays from the agreement in an unsatisfactory way you are only asking for trouble if you do n't act promptly for full recovery . |
| 13 | Then more words about his own father who had taken his own life , then retracting words , self-hating words , words weaving webs around his own egotism , then words that made no sense to the listener , words he himself was unaware of uttering as the tears wiped out reason . |
| 14 | Andy throws the man 's rucksack into the shaft , then bends and takes the man under one armpit , trying to heave him up . |
| 15 | With debt b 1 there are two possible steady states , at P 1 , and at Q 1 ; if the level of debt is increased , then falls but rises . |
| 16 | He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh . |
| 17 | If this is the case , then means and ends amount to the same thing since the same moral demands apply to both in the quest for Truth . |
| 18 | The creature grows at an alarming rate , then escapes and cuts a swathe of destruction as it moves through the southern Italian countryside . |
| 19 | The instruction then operates as follows : Load A and L into internal processor registers Perform the comparison with the word at A If the comparison is successful , terminate the instruction Otherwise , decrement L and increment A If L is zero , terminate the instruction Otherwise , jump back to the second line |
| 20 | A partner then catches and returns it and the throw is repeated at least ten times . |
| 21 | The antlers grow through the summer , covered in a fur called velvet , which then dries and falls off , or is rubbed off by the irritable beasts . |
| 22 | If A then sells and delivers them to an innocent purchaser , the latter will acquire good title . |
| 23 | The theory behind the sections is that , if an owner of goods agrees to sell them to someone and retains title but nevertheless lets the buyer have possession , that owner must bear the consequences ( i.e. loss of title ) if the buyer then sells and delivers the goods to an innocent sub-purchaser . |
| 24 | It then proposes and suggests some certain technical adjustments and makes allowances for previous policy decisions and losses of income etc. , and leads you through to er being able to propose a package measures within the policy committee guidelines . |
| 25 | The tribunal then decides whether to issue an ‘ unlikely to succeed ’ warning to either party , the result of which is that if that party persists with the claim or a contention as part of a claim at the hearing , and loses , then costs may be awarded against that party . |
| 26 | It is from within this situation that the female then decides whether to use it or not . |
| 27 | A report is sent to the district attorney , who then decides whether to pursue his own inquiry . |
| 28 | The author acknowledges that you will have difficulties but then suggests and explains what you can do to prevent them . |
| 29 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |
| 30 | LORD JUSTICE DILLON said that it was not in doubt that if the copy was privileged in relation to the employee 's then claims because obtained for the purpose of advice in relation to those claims , it retained its privileged condition in respect of the subsequent claims now being advanced by the bank : Pearce v Foster ( 1885 ) 15 QBD 114 . |