Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blackwell was the first woman doctor , graduating in New York in 1849 and later opening a dispensary on New York 's lower east-side . |
| 2 | As well as being profitable and actually paying a dividend back to Detroit for the first time in years , Vauxhall is an important part of the GM empire for political reasons . |
| 3 | Karamanlis , 83 , had presided over Greece 's return to democracy in 1974 , holding office as Prime Minister until 1980 and then serving a term as President from 1980 to 1985 . |
| 4 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 5 | this prevents civilians from becoming far too powerful and then becoming a dictatorship . |
| 6 | Robyn heard Luke 's voice as if from a distance , deep and unexpectedly showing a trace of concern . |
| 7 | She had left Anne , fur-clad and ostensibly reading a book of hours that Prince Richard had given her , on a stone seat near the entrance to the rose-garden . |
| 8 | Often silent and quietly studying a portfolio of my daughter 's childish drawings , I was aware of his compassion and deeply grateful for it . |