Example sentences of "and then [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these are indirect ways of reducing speeds , but nowhere is the direct way used ie a change in the law to bring speed limits below 50 km/h , applied street by street or across a zone , delimited by signs , enforced by the police , publicised widely , and then supported by infrastructural measures to ensure compliance as well as by environmental enhancement to reinforce perception of the changing function of the street to one of pedestrian ownership . |
| 2 | Anderton scored in the 26th minute after Barmby had headed Neil Ruddock 's cross back across the goal , delivered the corner that Teddy Sheringham converted after 44 minutes and then crossed for Barmby to score late in the first half . |
| 3 | She waited until the door was closed and then crossed to the window of her suite , pulling the curtains aside . |
| 4 | Churchyards were lacking ; in some cities the poor were soon shovelled underground in common graves , dug to an initial depth of 30ft and then filled with rough coffins to within 2ft of the surface . |
| 5 | Cracks in rendering should be raked out , cut back to sound material if necessary and then filled with new mortar . |
| 6 | A mould is made round it in detachable pieces , and in these a wax casting-mould is moulded or cast and then filled with a core ; and the bronze is cast from this as in the direct method . |
| 7 | In a water test , the drain is also stoppered and then filled with water to see whether this can be retained . |
| 8 | Even tin — imagine , just imagine , my dear and most esteemed Advocate , one of those medical illustrations , those écorché figures showing the skeins of muscle , the ropes of veins , in three dimensions , and then transmuted into metal , so that the tissues and channels and ducts and gristle ’ — the speaker 's hands traced intricate forms in the air in his morbid enthusiasm — ‘ look as if they have been made out of silver wire . ’ |
| 9 | He was a member of the teams which won in Ohio in 1987 and then tied at the Sutton Coldfield course two years later , and commented : ‘ Playing in the cup is the best thing ever . |
| 10 | The French made countless varieties of goats ' milk cheeses which are often small and wrapped in a chestnut leaf and then tied with raffia ( see p67 ) . |
| 11 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 12 | Samples were thawed , vortexed , and then centrigudes at 10000 g for one minute . |
| 13 | " I 'm going to tea with Mrs. Mott , " she added , and then glancing at Jenny , " Mr. Matthew 's away for the week-end , so do n't fret about seeing him . " |
| 14 | A wheat ear , in celebration perhaps , flew up and then descended in a slow ‘ butterfly ’ display flight . |
| 15 | The two days Maxim spent ambushing his own followers and then kicked into exile by George . |
| 16 | and then fished in line with the end of that reed boat |
| 17 | Derive expressions for the torque needed to hold 0 constant under the following conditions : ( i ) when the plates are connected to a source of constant voltage V ; ( ii ) after the plates have been rotated to their position of maximum capacitance , charged to voltage V , disconnected from the supply and then rotated to a new position . |
| 18 | ‘ We had a nest of white sticks in a tree and I can remember others of our kind soaring high on the wind and then stooping from out of that same hot sky , down towards the surface of the lake , their stoop so fast that you could hear the winds riffling and racing in their outstretched wings . |
| 19 | Alexandra climbed carefully up the first side and then leaped from the top on to the grass below . |
| 20 | This situation is very difficult to handle and it is worth trying to avoid early escalation of treatment with sulphonylureas and then progressing to insulin . |
| 21 | ‘ The same lamb you put a rope round the neck of and then chased into the German minefield ? ’ |
| 22 | Took up some good positions , had one half chance which the keeper did well to hold , and then chased after a long ball , outrun 2 defenders , hit it first time from 25 yards or so — straight into the bottom right corner , well the keeper got a slight touch which lifted it a bit higher but you get the idea . |
| 23 | Before long , however , the euphoria and hope turned to terror and tyranny , and first under the Committee of Public Safety and the Triumvirate , and then led by the Corsican dictator Napoleon , France became for a time , a threat to every nation in Europe . |
| 24 | Eleven o'clock — I get a book to read and then write about it . |
| 25 | And then write about it if we want to . |
| 26 | That you could do those things with boys and then write about them … . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't let it slip away , make certain your thoughts are known , visit the exhibition in the library and then write to East Hampshire District Council and tell them what you think … ‘ |
| 28 | Most flesh-eating reptiles have simple spikes that prevent them from chewing their prey ; they have to gulp it down whole and then remain in a torpor for days or weeks to digest the meal . |
| 29 | Zak 's intended scene of investigation into Angelica 's murder had been upstaged by the reality of the Lorrimores ' car and then aborted by the long stop at Thunder Bay . |
| 30 | He had been hooded , his hands tied behind his back , and then shot in the head . |