Example sentences of "then [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the invariant set is attracting , there is the possibility that the unstable manifold of the origin , which first strikes the return plane at R or L and which then wanders chaotically around the strange attractor forever , may eventually strike AD and then tend back towards the origin . |
| 2 | If RC remains steady within 2–3° of its 0° plus/minus drift position , then track straight to the station is being maintained and your estimated drift allowance is correct . |
| 3 | To disappear without so much as a phone call or a postcard for three years and then breeze back down the path from the town and across the bridge-rubber handlebars just clearing the sides and no more — carrying somebody else 's baby or babies and expecting to be housed , fed , nursed and delivered by my father was a little presumptuous . |
| 4 | As soon as the bell goes for the start of school we go to our tutor group rooms to drop off our bags and coats and then make straight for the hall . |
| 5 | Hook a triple transfer tool in three needles at left of centre , pull the needles to E position then push back to A position — once the stitches are on the transfer tool , it is safe to lift them out of the needles . |
| 6 | During aerobic walking your heart and breathing rates increase , level out , then remain there for the duration of the exercise . |
| 7 | Apply it to one of the surfaces then clamp together until the glue sets . |
| 8 | Production from the North Sea is likely to peak either in 1985 or 1986 , plateau , then curve downwards towards the end of the 1980s . |
| 9 | HOUSE prices will stabilise and then pick up towards the end of the year , say estate agents and property analysts . |
| 10 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |
| 11 | Then say so in the record , the pragmatist would counter . |
| 12 | He saw it break its flight over a dell between the dunes , soar vertically and then head off at an angle . |
| 13 | It would roll around on the carpet , then leap on to the piano and then on to the pianist 's lap , where it would start licking the hands that played the magic notes . |
| 14 | Start your arrangement around rim and then build up towards the middle to hide the foam |
| 15 | Dulé was to slip into the sea , then , binding the container of burning pitch to his head with a deep cushioning of reeds in between to prevent him getting burned , he would swim to the ship , gouge a hole in the hull with his knife and , taking dry tinder from a companion swimming alongside him , light spills from the fire and pass them through the walls of the ship , then slip back under the cover of the mangroves and lie in wait for the panic . |
| 16 | I get Des to untie his hands and then slip back inside the car . |
| 17 | These materials then flatten out as a disc surrounding the young star — to ultimately condense into planets . |
| 18 | They used to pop up in the morning when it was a bit cooler and damper and then flatten out in the afternoon when the temperature got up . |
| 19 | On longer courses participants may be asked to talk to one of their own students and then report back to the group on his/her pattern of language use . |
| 20 | I 'd grab my jacket , and parcel , then nip round to the customer with it — by foot ( shank 's pony ) . |
| 21 | Or you could live there , rig up your personal computer and play the Stock Exchange and the Bourse at the same time and then nip over to the West End for a show . ’ |
| 22 | Lower the slab in place , then tap down with the handle of a club hammer . |
| 23 | Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face . |
| 24 | Her style is to run around the mat , changing direction at a moment 's notice , and then fly in for a throw . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | My eyes then focus directly between the top of the windscreen and the roof , and if I 'm at the front at traffic lights , I feel like Ayrton Senna would if you blindfolded him and put him on pole position . |
| 27 | You then catch up with the field on the Isle of Dogs at the 17.5 mile-mark . |
| 28 | He would stride ahead to the next junction of corridors , twirling his umbrella , and then wait impatiently for the others to catch up . |
| 29 | A few moments later Merrill heard his car start , then roar away into the night . |
| 30 | I had thought that I might ride in a carretta to the edge of the desert , and then walk away over the sand and into the sun . |