Example sentences of "then [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every sentence begins ‘ The whole point is this , ’ proceeds doggedly towards the target , then veers off at the last moment and explodes harmlessly in the undergrowth . |
| 2 | The track then goes up through the forest to the crest of the hill . |
| 3 | It then goes on to the Shoulder of Mutton Hill , noted for its flower rich grassland . |
| 4 | It then goes on to the village of Colton and the Trent Valley . |
| 5 | The score then goes on to the last musical number in Act 3 , ‘ A thousand thousand ways ’ , which is a song repeated by the chorus . |
| 6 | Possibly well no , cos they , because it then goes on to the rain in heaven , I was going to say , maybe send the rain |
| 7 | Maconie then goes on about the ‘ Fred EP ’ and how the proceeds go to THT . |
| 8 | ‘ Ah ! ’ she says , and then goes over to the other side of the shop . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She comes back across the room , punches me playfully in the chest , then flops on to the sofa . |
| 11 | Your vessel then heads on to the wonderful wine town of Rüdesheim , arriving around 6.30pm . |
| 12 | From here the path follows the river bank downstream and then heads back into the forest and away from the river before crossing a burn . |
| 13 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 14 | The route then climbs out of the Severn Valley and goes across country to Heightlington . |
| 15 | How can viruses induce cells to enter the cycle of rapid multiplication that then leads on to the development of a tumour ? |
| 16 | Everyone then gets out of the habit of going to the pub and goes to the ever-increasing competition such as McDonald 's or other fast food establishments . |
| 17 | 3 The leading arm then withdraws back to the body in preparation for the next move . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This first capacitor charges to the peaks of the rectified sinewave potential during forward intervals but discharges somewhat through the load during reverse intervals as the rectified e.m.f. first falls from its peak value and then rises back to the potential difference retained on the capacitor . |
| 20 | He finishes after a bit and then jumps up on the window ledge . |
| 21 | As firms set prices alternately over consecutive periods , price falls by small steps from the upper limit of the interval until it reaches the lower limit and then jumps back to the upper limit and the cycle begins again . |
| 22 | He stabs at the buttons three times , then wriggles over to the handset and makes muffled shouts through the gag until you cock the gun and he hears it and looks round at where you stand , next to the wall , waving the telephone 's wall-plug . |
| 23 | He then fades out of the records . |
| 24 | Andy 's face pops up briefly and then disappears back into the bag . |
| 25 | 2 The striker pulls back and then follows through with the elbow strike , pushing the hips forward . |
| 26 | He thinks , and then leans over to the writer and asks ‘ Where we going ? ’ |
| 27 | He comes home at 8am to snatch an hour 's snooze and then sets off on the bus for a full day 's preaching to the people whose failing legs ca n't get them to church . |
| 28 | Thus each evening Silene bathes her white body in the ocean , then sets off across the skies to caress her sleeping lover . |
| 29 | Frank then walks out of the front door , covered in soot , and says , ‘ I do n't think you should have any more trouble there . |
| 30 | A man who mixes a cocktail of vitamins and sleeping pills to knock out Little Liz 's predecessor after she had gone off her oats and then crawls around under the bedclothes with a speculum and a flashlight . |