Example sentences of "[conj] then [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was therefore tempting , and usually easy , to import excessive quantities of goods and then resell them at a profit to local merchants , " from whom " , wrote Callières in 1697 , " they receive a tribute , for lending their names to defraud the Sovereign of his dues " . |
| 2 | I said I 'm on a YTS , she went oh she said I do n't know if you 're for them , I said er well if you do n't I 'll find out and then tell you at the she goes , yeah , we 'll do that she says but I do , I do n't know if owe have to pay for them or not , you know she said I think you 're supposed to have a form . |
| 3 | If the helicopter is moving , to stop it you must apply an opposite control movement and then remove it at the precise moment that the helicopter stops . |
| 4 | The secret of AST 's success , he claims , is that it designs , engineers and manufactures its own products , and then sells them at a competitive price via resellers , which add software and value-added services . |
| 5 | Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year . |
| 6 | She once again passed Drew in the street at about 5.10 and then saw him at the theatre at 6.30 , when he came into her dressing room to ask if his make-up was correct . |
| 7 | Tell them what you 're going to tell them before you tell them , and then summarise it at the end and tell them what you told them . |
| 8 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 9 | Very often a student creates his first phrase and then finds himself at a loss . |
| 10 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 11 | In the final stages of the peace-making at Utrecht in 1713 the representatives of the different powers avoided many of the difficulties and delays which had marked earlier such conferences by entering the meeting-place in the town hall pêle-mêle ( i.e. in no particular order ) and then seating themselves at a round table which had no head . |
| 12 | Thank God for dome tents with two bays : you collect snow from one end for tea , pass it through the middle-man , and then deposit it at the other end . |