Example sentences of "then [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They crouched at the bottom of Stone 's garden , then went in through the gate , bent low , finding cover in the vegetable area , among the canes and wire netting , then darting to a position behind a tall , trellis fence . |
| 2 | Where the boss 's response to a complaint might well be ‘ If you do n't like it you can always leave ’ , then sticking with a job you do not like implies that you lack the motivation to go and find something more satisfactory , or that you are incapable of finding anything better . |
| 3 | He learned this lesson this year in giving Kelly his chance pre-season and then sticking with him , even though many observers would have brought Kerslake or Sterland ( any news on him ? ) back . |
| 4 | There appears to be no method more reliable to check the degree of redness , pinkness or greyness that you desire then sticking in your knife into the thickest point of the meat . |
| 5 | Yet , despite being Britain 's only world championship claimant at that time , he was relatively unknown outside boxing circles and had boxed most of his important contests outside the UK , winning the European title in 1976 in Rome , then drawing in his first world title attempt in Berlin in 1977 , before finally taking the title in San Remo . |
| 6 | The fish was of course a familiar ecclesiastical emblem , originating with the cryptogram of the early disciples , and then elaborating on the analogy of ‘ fishers of men ’ . |
| 7 | Thus , if you want to study the use of the word ‘ true ’ in Arthur Hugh Clough , rather than generate a massive concordance containing all the words in Clough 's poems , and then leafing through it to find the word ‘ true ’ , you use the concordance package commands to generate a concordance which contains all and only the uses of ‘ true ’ . |
| 8 | Shoulder-length blond hair , embroidered cheese-cloth shirt , single strand of beads — I mean , beads but tasteful — a sensual hint of hash and patchouli , and midnight blue denims stretched taut then flaring over the longest , leanest bass-guitarist 's thighs in Glasgow . |
| 9 | 2 ) Positioning the mouse cursor on the text line and using the backspace or delete keys to delete the numbers and then typing in the new value . |
| 10 | He was staying up for four or five days at a time and then crashing for four or five days . |
| 11 | When she looked up , Daak 's headless body was still stumbling forward , collapsing slowly and then crashing to the floor like a felled tree . |
| 12 | The waves were crashing down rising into the air , then crashing against the water below , spreading the beach with a white spray . |
| 13 | It is starting with objects at the bottom or system level and then building in real-time features . |
| 14 | So if you 've got one length and one angle then depending on which one you 've got you 're going to use sine cos or tan to find the side the length you want . |
| 15 | The site continued in use as a corn mill up to its acquisition by the Arkell family in 1827 , by then consisting of three corn mills , a malt house and a bakery . |
| 16 | It marked the end of the long process of transformations — starting with the seething leaves of the plant , then the reeking green stage of the first steepings , and the sulphurous yellow stage of the liquor before it was exposed to the air , then binding with the air , it gradually turned to blue . |
| 17 | The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 18 | Then realising to whom she was referring she stopped and , embarrassed now , she muttered , ‘ Well , it was a fib in a good cause ; we do n't want bairns scampering around this place , do we ? ’ |
| 19 | He suffered discredit by opposing , and then capitulating to , the campaign for military conscription . |
| 20 | From these sources , it is possible quite quickly to gain an idea of how parkland has changed over the years — usually expanding in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , and then contracting during the twentieth . |
| 21 | Ken would go on upsetting people and then apologizing for his actions . |
| 22 | Similarly in the music department at ‘ J.F. Kennedy ’ , after children have worked on a project , such as the exploration of a musical device like the development and use of a repeated accompaniment pattern or ostinato ( through listening and then experimenting with using the device in their own compositions ) the performance of their end result would be assessed to determine whether they had grasped and utilized the device effectively . |
| 23 | The patterns you can make on your machine depend upon your first learning what the machine will do automatically and then experimenting by adapting all that you have absorbed into your own designs . |
| 24 | They like nothing more than wallowing in a cool mud bath in the mornings when the sun is not too high and then resting in the shade of an acacia tree during the scorching heat which follows . |
| 25 | They were then struggling at 127 for four with 16 overs remaining but Byas pulled Caddick for six to restore confidence , which was boosted even further when he was dropped on the boundary edge by Andy Hayhurst when 27 . |
| 26 | He lost , and lost again at a by-election in February 1936 in Ross and Cromarty against Malcolm MacDonald [ q.v. ] , the National Government candidate and dominions secretary — another embarrassment for his father who was then angling for a cabinet post . |
| 27 | On 24 April a team of about 10 began to sort the books by then accumulating in the Davidson Room . |
| 28 | For whatever reason , after his initial expressionless stare , he had attached himself to her , at first dawdling behind , then circling round her , as might a stray dog , and finally trotting at her side . |
| 29 | The teacher moves from group to group , occasionally spotlighting one of them , saying " Let's see what 's happening in different parts of the town " and then reflecting on what 's been heard and seen : " Feelings are running high . |
| 30 | The initial sums were often quite modest as football clubs tend to grow gradually , first drawing crowds on a casual basis and then fencing in a field and charging admission ; from this point a wooden stand might be built and earth piled up into which steps could be cut . |