Example sentences of "then [vb pp] over the " in BNC.

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1 A thin cream called red bole is then painted over the gesso to provide a rich base on which to lay the leaf The area to be covered is then dampened with a very diluted solution of rabbit skin glue , before the gold leaf is carefully positioned and laid down .
2 Taff said sleepily as he stood up , then leaned over the side of the trench , his head resting on the grass .
3 The pattern is then placed over the board , and the surface of the paper facing you is rubbed with chalk .
4 Broad transparent colour was then placed over the top to complete the effect , with minor details added as necessary .
5 On weekdays , a further peak occurred in the half hour before noon , but demand then dropped over the lunchtime period until 13.00 , when it started to climb once more , reaching a peak at 14.15–14.30 , after which it declined gradually until the end of the day .
6 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 .
7 A wash of colour is then applied over the signpost and the stile , using yellow ochre , pale olive green and burnt umber .
8 Mike Ford then shot over the bar from thirty yards , and in the thirtieth minute , Graham Hogg was booked for a challenge on Lee Nogan ; Hogg who 'd performed so well at the heart of the Portsmouth defence .
9 Yet here , on the verge of the Lowlands , most of the gentry had hedged their bets ; some had even entertained the Butcher as he progressed triumphally from one massacre to the next and had then bought over the gutted glens and stocked them with the great sheep .
10 A seven lumen manometric catheter , with recording orifices radially oriented and spaced 15 cm apart ( Arndorfer Medical Specialities , Greendale , Wis ) , was then advanced over the guidewire .
11 He attempted to ignite a towering mound of dark flake which spluttered feebly then toppled over the edge of his pipe .
12 She switched it off then clambered over the fence , landing nimbly on her toes , and walked down another alley which brought her out onto Madison Avenue .
13 A net was then stretched over the pond .
14 She got to her feet , then tripped over the flapping toe of one of the socks .
15 Sweeten with caster sugar to taste , then spread over the sides and top of the cake .
16 Pioneering scholarship in the 1960s by Rudé and Rose suggested that food rioting first occurred in Oxfordshire in the closing years of the seventeenth century and then spread over the South and West and into the Midlands , but were uncommon in the northern counties .
17 The other solvent is then passed over the mixture in the opposite direction .
18 A hydrophone — an under-water microphone — was then lowered over the side as the launch pitched violently in a heavy swell and winds gusting to more than 40 miles per hour .
19 The flysheet is then draped over the inner and secured to ground .
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