Example sentences of "then [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ 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 . |
| 32 | Whatever figure you choose , you can then borrow up to a given multiple of that amount whenever you like , either in a lump sum or in small irregular amounts . |
| 33 | STUART then came up with a solution . |
| 34 | Sal sent the sack up on a bight of slack , then came up on a tight rope and the sling . |
| 35 | Oxfordshire have had the toughest task of all against the championship leaders Glamorgan at swansea … they got some early wickets but then came up against a chap called Richards … |
| 36 | We then came up against a stop , and as I said a moment ago , our choice was between that budget , as negotiated , and the Labour budget , and I 've just shown you one hole in that budget . |
| 37 | Too early to know , say officials , and anyway that question really has a different target : it was the press and Wall Street that got euphoric in the early days of war , and then came down with a bump , not the administration . |
| 38 | So often the preacher has an idea that he feels strongly about , and he then casts around for a scripture that seems to fit his message . |
| 39 | Being Ireland , they ended up by eating three teas , then roared out to a singing pub in Howth , then went for a major curry before returning for a ‘ little party ’ in a student house . |
| 40 | This is then mapped on to a geometric domain which contains all the graphical description of the object in CAD terms . |
| 41 | Based on the seven days of creation there are seven days to a week and the Hebrew calendar is then made up of a cycle of seven years ( each seventh year being the Sabbatical year ) and seven cycles of seven years ( with each fiftieth year being a year of Jubilee ) . |
| 42 | A complete gene is then made up of a whole series of exons , which are actually strung together only when they are eventually read by the ‘ official ’ operating system that translates them into proteins . |
| 43 | It is easy to mark around a dinner plate and then cut out with a sharp knife . |
| 44 | In a direct boiler system , the copper hot water cylinder ( or , in older installations , galvanised hot water tank ) is supplied with water from the cold water storage cistern ; the water then passes down to a heating boiler , back boiler ( behind a fire ) or gas circulator to be heated before returning to the hot water cylinder . |
| 45 | All this data is then written up as a technical report , and forms part of the information stored as an archive for future reference . |
| 46 | It had a plain smooth bodice to the hips , then flared out in a lot of little points , like petals . |
| 47 | I was asked to clean down with blanket wash and then run over with a clean polishing rag . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | He drove on through and then turned around in a gateway and cruised back more slowly . |
| 50 | I dipped down into a valley , crossed into another field — moving faster and faster — and then climbed up towards a thicket . |
| 51 | The officers then climbed on to a porch and smashed the windows but were still unable to reach the victims . |
| 52 | On a mortiser it is possible to tilt the piece to be mortised at an angle ; the same angled mortise can be produced by drilling out with a drill bit , and then cleaning up with a chisel . |
| 53 | The teams played four matches , spread over several weeks , against each of the others , with the top two then going through to a best-of-three final . |
| 54 | She 's having fun then going out into a home next , that 'll be his fault |
| 55 | Ramblers were often trained as weeping standards , with their stems tied to a vertical pole and then fanned out over a series of hoops to cascade down to the ground . |
| 56 | Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in . |
| 57 | Using a wash-down hose , rinse out the oven and then finish off to a fine sparkle with a quick wipe around . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | The patches can then be located where you want them among the preamp 's memory locations ( or programs ) , and then called up by a MIDI pedal . |
| 60 | One school of thought has it that William received his regular thrashing for untidy work and was then locked up in a tiny room to rewrite it . |