Example sentences of "then [verb] [adv prt] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , Mr Friel had refused his friend 's invitation to escort him home , then met up with the accused again by chance and been assaulted . |
| 2 | The design was then filled out with the smaller red roses , ‘ Yesterday ’ and ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ , and finally to complete any gaps I used some pink ‘ Ballerina ’ and creamy pink ‘ Penelope ’ roses . |
| 3 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 4 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 5 | Lower the slab in place , then tap down with the handle of a club hammer . |
| 6 | You then catch up with the field on the Isle of Dogs at the 17.5 mile-mark . |
| 7 | Unfortunately he found like others that even eminence in science did not automatically bring emolument , and in 1863 he contemplated moving to Manchester ; but Samuelson then came up with the proposal of producing a new Quarterly Journal of Science , which duly appeared in January 1864 under the editorship of Crookes and Samuelson . |
| 8 | At a press conference in Phoenix , Balestre initially hinted at a conciliatory line in the dispute between CART and FISA , but then came out with the stern suspension threat , which also encompassed Indycar engine makers Cosworth and Ilmor . |
| 9 | He paused , then came out with the inevitable suggestion that she found so irritating . |
| 10 | He ordered the driver and two officers to get out … and then drove off with the third towards London . |
| 11 | Blake DJ-ed at the city 's legendary Tresor club and then hitched up with the club 's label and producers Thomas Fehlmann and Moritz Von Oswald . |
| 12 | He added , however , that former Sunderland player Billy Bingham , the Northern Ireland manager , might be prepared to reach a compromise with his old club possibly allowing Rogan to play for at least part of the match against Swindon and then link up with the rest of the squad on the day of the international . |
| 13 | The final sections of ‘ Van Gogh ’ are particularly masterly : as the painter painfully dies in the little village inn , his friends lament his passing for a moment and then get on with the business of the day — shopping , washing clothes , preparing for work . |
| 14 | Tests show that , after a slow beginning , availability of the nutrients rises to a peak in about 80 days and then tails off with the potash being held late , when it is needed . |
| 15 | Ignore personal attacks and criticism by thanking the opposition for their feedback and then moving on with the positive aspects of your case . |
| 16 | Er , well we only really done exercises and then started off with the play . |
| 17 | After a pub lunch we did a bit outside the car-park mortuary and then settled down with the telephone to record some attempts to buy a coffin , one of which resulted in agreement , which was the last thing we needed at the time , although it came in very handy later . |
| 18 | Ignoring her , he looked through a small pile of paperbacks on the bedside table then settled down with the latest Ken Follett . |
| 19 | Sometimes it 's worth going away for a while and letting her think she 's beaten you , and then coming back with the food a few hours later . |
| 20 | Doing the rooms in the morning fell into an easy rhythm — make the bed , tidy up anything the guests had left around , dust the tops , wash up the teacups if they 'd been used , clean the washbasin , put out fresh tea bags and sachets of coffee , sugar and milk powder , then go round with the Hoover . |
| 21 | I mean I 'm gon na try and give , the first two guys and er Mike who came in , they did n't do very well cos they did n't actually mention that bit and it did n't flow from then on , you 've got ta make the point , you know , did you find that er well not did you , that 's bad phraseology , I 'm sure you found this beneficial which of the areas of the five tonight actually interest you the most do that bit and then go in with the fact that you actually mentioned earlier on that you do work on a recommendation basis . |
| 22 | All he had to do was wait until dusk , and then go out with the tide . |
| 23 | I did the tour , had five days off , then went off with the Floyd for three months , five days off and then back with Mike and the Mechanics ! |
| 24 | Anne 's daddy looked at the mistletoe in the apple-tree when they reached Sundial Cottage and then went in with the three Brownies to see Miss Miggs . |
| 25 | 2 The striker pulls back and then follows through with the elbow strike , pushing the hips forward . |
| 26 | Put this at the bottom of a deep casserole , which must not be much bigger than the piece of meat , which you should then put in with the calf 's foot on top . |
| 27 | We do a pick-up , then check in with the van . |
| 28 | For it would be absurd to open your answer by considering some summary offence of which the defendant is guilty , and then to wind up with the conclusion that he has also committed , say , murder ! |