Example sentences of "[to-vb] and then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others , if they have had enough attention , will simply start to struggle and then leap down or move away . |
| 2 | Give the cards to someone to shuffle and then ask another to cut the cards . |
| 3 | The second skin of heat-resistant material seemed to burn off unevenly — at least that was Rostov 's impression — for the vibration increased and the pod appeared to tumble and then check as the first ribbon chute opened . |
| 4 | We supposedly get a couple of days to recharge and then turn up refreshed here to shine and glitter on the first night while they 're wrecked . |
| 5 | Four pound for visitors only seem to come and then disappear not many of them seem to join us . |
| 6 | Thus , since nothing in the Constitution allows the Federal government to create a welfare system , whereby payments ( or payments in kind ) are made to the residents of the various States , a welfare state system could only be established either through Constitutional Amendment ( which would be difficult both to write and then to enact ) or through successful negotiation with the State governments . |
| 7 | Given the time it takes to write and then publish a book , our apparently insatiable appetite for the stuff causes real problems : the satirical observation conceived now is likely to look at best , a little tired , and , at worst , incomprehensible , in twelve to eighteen months ' time . |
| 8 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 9 | My plan was to sit around and wait for one of the parish team to appear and then to ask them for their advice . |
| 10 | And the adults with whom they interact must continue to be interested in what they have to say , more concerned to answer questions and to sustain and extend their interests than to tell them what the adults think they ought to know and then to check that they can remember what they were told ( Wood , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | In March he had been sought by police for crashing his '66 Corvette Sting-Ray into a car he was trying to pass and then driving away . |
| 12 | Just as every normal human child first learns to crawl , then to stand and then to walk and the motivation and capacity to do these things comes from within the child , and is not artificially imposed from outside — so , the moral development theorists hold , there is a necessary sequence of stages of emerging moral judgement . |
| 13 | Pick different times and learn to observe and then analyse your behaviour and reactions : |
| 14 | He told the court that he had been under ‘ emotional stress ’ at the time of the offence and that it was very much out of character for him to drink and then drive . |
| 15 | Some children get worried or feel uncomfortable because they fail to chew and then try to swallow large lumps of food which cause them to gag and vomit . |
| 16 | Her parents , who lived overseas , came to visit and then stay . |
| 17 | Added to which was the emotional harassment of fellow priest Laverty whose idea of support was to visit and then accuse her of trying to wreck the life of a good priest . |
| 18 | As one who was in the vanguard of the battle to halt and then reverse the ratchet of socialism , I appeal to all who really care for their country and their children 's future : do not give history an opportunity to repeat itself . |
| 19 | The aim is to target and then monitor reform-minded governments — Ecuador might be the first — and create ‘ islands of integrity ’ : countries whose officials abjure bribery in the hope of shaming others into doing the same . |
| 20 | Our 1978 data detected four subjects who seemed to acquire and then lose H pylori antibodies . |
| 21 | Apart from getting ready to go and then coming home again you see and your meals and that sort of thing . |
| 22 | The willow is cut between January and March , left in water until it starts to sprout and then peeled and dried . |
| 23 | As you requested , your identity will be preserved in the approach letter and interested parties will be asked , in the first instance , to contact MAS , who will assess the parties ' willingness to proceed and then report back to yourselves . |
| 24 | ‘ He described quite graphically — to me personally — how he felt with it seeping through the blindfold and beginning to sting and then burn at his eyes so that he was finally forced to open them in order to blink . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He began to sob and then shudder under the weight of his grief . |
| 27 | Shall I wait and then put in er would it be better for me to wait and then put in a big lump sum ? |
| 28 | He was asked to wait and then shown into a room where a detective sergeant prepared to take a statement from him . |
| 29 | He would tell a cab to wait and then fail to return . |
| 30 | Looking up , he saw the astral form of Gunda , a shepherdess he had attempted to seduce and then killed , with Wolfhead , the faithful boarhound he had also killed in a fury . |