Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [conj] then [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presenting the patient with hypothetical , but realistic crisis-provoking situations similar to those which he has experienced and then examining in detail other ways of dealing with them apart from self-poisoning . |
| 2 | The rider has to work out the problem , why it has happened and then decide how best to correct it . |
| 3 | I will see how the club has changed and then ease my way in . ’ |
| 4 | I put it in a basket whatever I 'd got and then dress it with a ‘ blower ’ or dressing machine ( if I could borrow one ) . |
| 5 | My diary for the holidays is , as usual , almost blank , but contains several references to having overeaten and then feeling sick , which served me right . |
| 6 | England 's fortunes under Mike Gatting had been varied , losing relentlessly at home , carrying all before them in a triumphal tour of Australia , narrowly losing a World Cup final they should have won and then having their captain , under great provocation , address naughty words to a Pakistani umpire . |
| 7 | She let it rest for longer than she should have done and then moved slightly away . |
| 8 | As Walvin ( 1986:9 ) explains , ‘ The country which had developed and then exported the game found itself ostracised and reviled in the world 's footballing fraternity . ’ |
| 9 | He took off , flying low and keeping out of sight , tilting quickly up above a treeline to check what he had seen and then tipping out of sight again . |
| 10 | Tallboy thought about what he had said but then battled on . |
| 11 | Blanche took a second to focus on what he had said and then laughed . |
| 12 | Robyn listened , stared , digesting all that he had said and then looked back at the magnificent sixty-foot holly tree . |
| 13 | One evening when Zbo and Modi were sitting together in a café , Modigliani finished a sketch he had made and then tore the page out of his blue sketchbook . |
| 14 | They 've read what you 've said and then say well I do n't agree with that and you can write down that . |
| 15 | So we 've got and then d' ya think we 'll like get poetry and then we 'll get our last ? |
| 16 | The police claimed she had escaped and then hanged herself from a tree . |
| 17 | We swapped a few anecdotes about buffoons we had encountered and then went our separate ways , hands thrust deep into our respective double-thickness , Gortex , all-weather , storm-force shell outers . |
| 18 | After a long morning 's work in midsummer , he had eaten and then leaned back to take a short sleep . |
| 19 | The waiter 's eyes had rounded and then slid to the now poker-faced Lucenzo , who became preoccupied with peeling the paper from a Carnival doughnut . |
| 20 | They simply waited until the officials had gone and then carried on working . |
| 21 | Wilson waited until he had gone and then spoke directly . |
| 22 | It is comparable with the now discredited phonetic method of teaching children to read where they no sooner learned to read by this method than they had to scrap all they had learned and then start all over again and learn to read properly . |
| 23 | At 4 a.m. it was purely by chance that Bob Newman first heard that Tweed had murdered and then raped a girl . |
| 24 | So , what you need to do is , is , is expand on what you 've read and then start to invent things yourself . |
| 25 | Cadbury had labelled and then supplied the chocolate packed in sealed cases which were not opened until they reached the retailer . |
| 26 | The combination is dramatic and somehow unexpected in a senecio , especially as it takes place in autumn when most other border perennials have flowered and then faded . |