Example sentences of "and then [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards they had eaten lunch and then despite the heat had started home . |
| 2 | Looked upwards to the sky : and there , up there , glimpsed now and then between the moving boughs , was the constellation of the great bear … and the pole star . |
| 3 | Its Guelf battlements and towers have witnessed many conflicts between Florentine and Sienese rivals first , and then between the Medici family and Florentine Republic later . |
| 4 | So , submits Mr. Browne , inviting analogy first between discovery in civil and in criminal proceedings , and then between the implied undertaking on the one hand and public interest immunity on the other , this court should now conclude that the immunity too has lapsed : in other words that there no longer remains any public interest in withholding these documents from further dissemination . |
| 5 | Well , yes , just to look at the wh the question of balance of power between the employer on the one hand and the members on the other hand and then between the different categories of members the active payers-in , the pensioners and the deferred pensioners . |
| 6 | He told them about the oranges and bananas that grow in Aula and the quantities of milk and curd , and then about the monkeys that hop around and eat the crops . |
| 7 | The depth of the recession facing Germany means that the boom must fall soon , and then about the only way for Siemens to save the company will be to make a major acquisition that finally puts it onto the world stage . |
| 8 | We were in the sedan : Ebert , Fest and I. Ebert was sounding off , first about Karr and then about the General . |
| 9 | He began to tell her about Letty and then about the astonishing story that there might be another member of the family tucked away in Scotland . |
| 10 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 11 | Not only did Nicola Larini manage to bring the new Modena-Lamborghini through pre-qualifying and then into the race , he gave the new team more than it had thought possible by finishing seventh , albeit three laps behind . |
| 12 | Thus , if the goal is for your dog to eat in the car rather than the kitchen , in preparation for a long journey , move its dish a few inches a day towards the car , and then into the car . |
| 13 | If the problem re-occurs then the seal between the axle and the swivel housing is faulty and allowing oil to pass from the axle into the swivel housing and then into the brakes . |
| 14 | He ran back and into the house , first to his own room , and then into the other half of the cottage , feeling a strange compulsion to find something , as if there were some crucial thing , upon which everything else depended , which was still hidden and must not be left behind . |
| 15 | After a short run , the lady driver turned down a narrow lane , and then into the driveway leading to a large ranch-type bungalow . |
| 16 | Jack 's full-back partner was ‘ Dusty ’ Rhodes , while behind them was the fabulous Jack Alderson and these three heroes played an amazing sequence of exactly 100 consecutive matches together ( including cup-ties and friendlies ) helping the Palace into the Football League in the process and then into the 2nd Division as the first champions of the newly formed 3rd Division in 1920–21 . |
| 17 | ‘ We should start in the engine room , ’ Nell suggested , shivering , ‘ work up through the crew 's quarters , and then into the complex . ’ |
| 18 | Continue to bring forced bulbs into the greenhouse as the shoots reach 1–2″ ( 2.5–5cm ) , and then into the house as the buds show among the leaves . |
| 19 | I use it normally on a clean setting , but if I want distortion I tend to go through a BOSS Turbo Overdrive pedal and then into the Rock Box . |
| 20 | He chooses Northamptonshire in 1792 and we journey with him up to the present and then into the future . |
| 21 | I spent holidays at home , but went to school over here , and then into the Army . |
| 22 | Gold , scarlet and blazing flame I had seen before , but never like this , washing over the low clouds from below , and backed by the most delicate and limpid green which faded to primrose and then into the shadowy greys of the upper sky . |
| 23 | In front of him , she sealed the cigar butt in the plastic sachet into a small tin box and then into the padded envelope . |
| 24 | He did not wait for the servants to open the doors , but just pushed through into the entrance hall , and then into the great ballroom where a score of painters and upholsterers were finishing a long night 's work during which they had transformed the ballroom into a silk-hung fantasy . |
| 25 | When this old men 's ideology starts to be transmitted into literature , and from literature into popular writings , and then into the press especially the gutter press and the mass media then it begins slowly to form the people . |
| 26 | Pressed by Macho , the colobus jumped into Ulysse 's tree , and then into the one guarded by Fitz , who , with an impressive rush , caught the colobus . |
| 27 | First of all , penetrates from the into the bloodstream and then into the cerebral spinal fluid . |
| 28 | Secondly , as national incomes rise , the increase in demand generated will be channelled first into the secondary sector and then into the tertiary sector , in accordance with Engel 's Law . |
| 29 | ‘ If only it had been me I would have flown to the highest tree where they could n't catch me and then , and then into the sky to find the wind . ’ |
| 30 | And then into the investment trust , and Colonial , er and erm er let's see , , people like that . |