Example sentences of "he then [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then contrasted that position with the case where a decision-making power had been conferred on a court of law . |
| 2 | He then got it there , he then takes that tape and plays another tape he makes a ? |
| 3 | He then identified typical elements in each of the two cultural categories , and linked them to the nature of the prevailing communication medium ( speech/writing ) . |
| 4 | In his late 20 's or early 30's , with a distinctive moustache , he then left each robbery on foot , convincing police he knows the town well . |
| 5 | He then applied black eye-liner . |
| 6 | He then pushes this clay into the hole and the heat of the furnace means that the clay bakes almost instantaneously blocks the hole and then the furnace can go o carry on working . |
| 7 | He then attacks certain answers to these questions as ‘ metaphysics ’ . |
| 8 | He then drove 20 miles to Pasa Robles where he opened fire on four men , killing three . |
| 9 | He then rejected local criticism of one of these bodies , denying that the IIRS ‘ is the lap-dog of any company … |
| 10 | But he then told each layer of management to appoint the layer below it . |
| 11 | He then became chief intelligence officer to the Egyptian expeditionary force that advanced into Palestine . |
| 12 | He then uses this analogy with the sentence to describe the trajectory by which the subject constitutes itself through the other . |
| 13 | He then took two bottles out with the same result . |
| 14 | He then took various jobs including that of a clerk to an estate agent , a shop assistant in a department store and even as a tea taster for a firm of tea merchants . |
| 15 | He then took some food which would last for a while and packed it into his bag . |
| 16 | For example one woman set fire to her kitchen accidentally and the carer , her neighbour , realised that it would not be safe for her to remain at home ; another carer , a husband , found himself becoming so stressed that he struck his wife ; he then requested institutional care . |
| 17 | He then sprinkled five litres of petrol in rooms and dropped a match . |
| 18 | He then made two transfer requests and Wilkinson seized the first opportunity he could to unload the controversial star . |
| 19 | He then made careful research into the reserve fuel lifted and found we all returned with about 23% of our fuel . |
| 20 | He then made this advice public , thus instituting a free legal aid service of a novel kind . |
| 21 | He then calculates estimated sales , co-ordinates with his production department so the product is made in the right volume , and enlists the help of advertising and other specialist services , such as sales promotion and public relations , to help him achieve the projected sales . |
| 22 | He then spends ten minutes getting radio engineers — ‘ Here , have we heard of Duns ? ’ — to afford him diplomatic status , and then mend a faulty link . |
| 23 | And he then justifies particular incidents of of er of violence and attack by saying that it 's the local tyrants , the , the evil gentry , the landless , the lawless landlords who have driven the peasants to do this anyway . |
| 24 | He then spent eleven years in Leeds , first as curate at St Peter 's ( 1932–8 ) , during which he obtained an MA in the history and philosophy of religion and in Chinese studies at Leeds University , then as vicar of St Matthew 's , Holbeck . |
| 25 | He then spent two years in Newfoundland ( 1873–4 ) investigating mineral resources , and joined an expedition to Arabia in 1874 . |
| 26 | He then spent many years at night in the New York public library searching for an alternative method , and eventually discovered one in reading about the well-known principle of the photoconductor — a substance that will hold a charge of electricity in the dark , but not in the light . |
| 27 | He then spent 18 years taking still shots for posters until Saatchi and Saatchi 's asked him to direct a small commercial . |
| 28 | He then spent four years in London and the South-East , including a spell at the prestigious Gravetithe Manor in East Grinstead . |
| 29 | He then spent five years as Assistant General Manager , UK Banking . |
| 30 | He then spent five years studying surgery at Edinburgh , qualifying in 1938 . |