Example sentences of "then [vb base] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place the block oil-side down into some jeweller 's rouge powder , then rub it on to the mirror edge . |
| 2 | Each pupil had to detail a movement in front of the squad pretending to be a drill sergeant and my detail was to get my squad from the stand easy position , slope arms and march them some 50 yards , then bring them back to the original position order arms and stand at ease . |
| 3 | Simple — I take the dish over to the sink and wash it , then bring it back to the table . |
| 4 | Slide it out onto a plate , then invert it back into the pan and cook the other side for about 5 minutes . |
| 5 | She bent quickly to kiss her father , then let herself out into the shadowy hall , and made for the wide , oak-panelled stairs . |
| 6 | Lay a piece of masking tape at the centre point of the hearth , then line it up with the plumb bob |
| 7 | Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ? |
| 8 | Cardiff watched him scan the wall , and then hold it up to the ceiling . |
| 9 | The second is to remove all of the fish , totally rearrange the rockwork and then put them back into the tank , including the new one and they should then soon settle down and establish the pecking order , which should also include the newcomer . |
| 10 | He sipped at his wine again , then put it down on the arm of his chair and , keeping a finger and thumb on the stem , twisted it one way , then the other . |
| 11 | I looked at it accusingly , then put it down in the cradle . |
| 12 | Maxwell examined the letter in silence , let the Consul General read it and then put it back into the Captain 's open hand . |
| 13 | Oswald has been chairman of the Darlington Brown Trout Angling Association for 38 years , and jokes : ‘ On the one hand I catch a fish then put it back into the water . |
| 14 | Think of the total quantity of change involved in going from wolf to Chihuahua , and then multiply it up by the number of walking paces between London and Baghdad . |
| 15 | If you are paid a weekly wage , then add it up to the monthly total and put that down and so on . |
| 16 | First , the Macintosh was designed as a graphical computer and so already possessed the necessary hardware to provide a typographically ‘ accurate ’ WYSIWYG display and then print it out onto the new LaserWriter printer . |
| 17 | Whereas I mean , , if you sort of give the criticism first and say the wrong area is that , and then finish it off with the praise , they know where they stand , and when you come up to them and say you 've done a superb job , they 're not just sitting back , thinking oh yes , what 's coming next . |
| 18 | The key experiment is to take early limb buds , remove the covering jacket , separate the cells , mix them up , and then pack them back into the jacket which is then grafted to the flank of an embryo . |
| 19 | Breathe in from the diaphragm slowly through the chest to the mouth counting 1-2-3-4 then blow it back to the diaphragm with another 1-2-3-4 . |
| 20 | ‘ If there was anything that caught his ear , he would tell everyone to be quiet and listen , and then fling himself about to the music . |
| 21 | Haul it back up , then chuck it down on the deck |
| 22 | And if you 'd got a good suit , you 'd take that , then fetch it out for the weekend , so they 'd looked decent , and when you took it back on Monday and he said I 'll have to drop you on that , Ah , so you wo n't this week . |
| 23 | Dexter believed Jane Pargeter was more interested in David Parkin 's affair than she pretended : you ca n't be someone 's lover for three years and then cast them off with the same indifference as an old pair of socks . |
| 24 | He toyed with the envelope for a couple of seconds , then thrust it back to the bottom of the pile . |
| 25 | Erm what , what we do today is to way go back over some of the ideas about land reform and then carry them through to the ninety fifty er Agrarian Reform Bill . |
| 26 | Then you 'd quarter it , quarter it off , you see , then carry it down to the shop so as you had some beef in the shop on show in four quarters . |
| 27 | As I recall , they took him out in a refrigerator once , but the usual method with the hostages was to wrap them in blankets or carpet , strapped up with grey plumber 's tape , cover them in sheets , then wheel them out in the middle of the night and stuff them in a van or the boot of a car for the journey . |
| 28 | To craft the pots so patiently from earth and water and then deliver them over to the mercies of fire and air . ’ |
| 29 | If they want to take it all away in the end and match me up with that slimy halfwit , why then take me up to the mountain and show me the world ? |
| 30 | He would collect her in his Morgan two-seater with the original strap round the bonnet , then take her off to the sailing club to commandeer the helm of her Enterprise dinghy , dressed in the latest sailing gear . |