Example sentences of "and then [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drama comes from separating the tooth germ of a mouse embryo from the overlying sheet and then recombining it with the cell sheet enclosing the limb , but which would normally form skin . |
| 2 | Now let's look at the manoeuvre and tacking in more detail , you will remember it 's a sequence which involves changing hands , pushing , changing sides and then straightening up again . |
| 3 | The system can understand spoken utterances by simultaneously analysing them at different levels ( including syntax and semantics ) , and then combining the results . |
| 4 | " I 'm going to tea with Mrs. Mott , " she added , and then glancing at Jenny , " Mr. Matthew 's away for the week-end , so do n't fret about seeing him . " |
| 5 | Actually communicating the need for quality improvement to all 37.000 C&P employees , educating everyone and then implementing the process , is no mean task . |
| 6 | ‘ We had a nest of white sticks in a tree and I can remember others of our kind soaring high on the wind and then stooping from out of that same hot sky , down towards the surface of the lake , their stoop so fast that you could hear the winds riffling and racing in their outstretched wings . |
| 7 | After giving you the brush-off , as you thought , and then bellowing and being so bloody judgemental at the time Simon crashed , I had n't come over as either sensitive or supportive . |
| 8 | This situation is very difficult to handle and it is worth trying to avoid early escalation of treatment with sulphonylureas and then progressing to insulin . |
| 9 | More complicated patterns for the arm involve holding it straight and turned outwards at certain angles , where the physiotherapist has placed the arm , and then learning to move the arm between two positions . |
| 10 | I was at university and then learning the business I had inherited . |
| 11 | And then learning together is a model of dynamic encounter or dialogue , one with the other . |
| 12 | differentiating a quotient and then recognizing the picture . |
| 13 | And the the time involved in driving over and then wandering around the city is . |
| 14 | The Twit Factor(TF) is calculated by a multiplying a Breeding Quotient ( BQ ) , marked between 1 and 5 , by the Outrage Index ( OI ) , based upon observed behaviour , marked between 1 and 10 , and then dividing the result by the Agreed Mitigator ( AM ) , a mark between 1 and 10 assessed on the basis of redeeming features such as intelligence , professional merit etc . |
| 15 | He saw it slipping around in a pool and then dividing into drops that ran apart . |
| 16 | The velocity of propagation was measured in cm/ second as the mean of 10 consecutive values by determining the time interval in seconds between the beginning of the upstroke of the contractions at 5 and 15 cm above the lower oesophageal sphincter and then dividing 10 ( the distance in cm between the proximal and distal ports ) by that figure . |
| 17 | West Europeans and Americans were arguing angrily about whether the Soviet Union was conspiratorially seeking to gain military advantage by negotiating away the West 's remaining tactical nuclear weapons and then stalling on conventional reductions . |
| 18 | The modern manager establishes his machismo , not by creating a business that can employ thousands , but by buying a business and then chucking all his supposedly supernumerary workers on the dole . |
| 19 | What was the use , Colonel Richardson asked himself , what was the use of being such a splendid rector 's wife all these years , and then chucking the whole lot out of the window , for a pig-headed whim ? |
| 20 | Allen went on sorting out the rope and every now and then tugging at it to test it . |
| 21 | Her hands ceased their uncertain fluttering , dropping to her lap as she sat back and then tugging at the hem of her skirt until it was at a more modest level . |
| 22 | Ken would go on upsetting people and then apologizing for his actions . |
| 23 | The principle indicated in those cases was a long way from the circumstances of the present case and was far from warranting the conclusion that by making a photocopy of a document which in the hands of the maker of the photocopy was not privileged , and then sending the photocopy to a solicitor for the purposes of obtaining advice , privilege was thereby cast on the copy sent to the soicitor . |
| 24 | Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen . |
| 25 | There is no point in setting out your case and then sending the only copy to the opposition . |
| 26 | There is a serial killer abroad who delights in stabbing Belushi 's one-night conquests , smearing them in Yves Saint Laurent Rich Ruby lipstick and then sending him cryptic notes on a wonky word processor . |
| 27 | Anyone whose got a scanner and a paper could do us who did n't get the paper a big favour by scanning the section concerning the 470 players and then sending it around ! |
| 28 | He 's probably getting them all in and then sending out all the replies , just speak into that . |
| 29 | Whilst most of this macro was created using the Macro Record facility , the sections which deal with the path and document name were added by loading the macro as a file and then typing them in . |
| 30 | 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 . |