Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a week of the sad news , they had organised whip-rounds and even staged a charity rock concert at a local club . |
| 2 | Voters had limited information about the policy positions of the parties and often supported a party in spite of its policies instead of because of them . |
| 3 | The drivers roared round tight corners and skilfully navigated a twisty , bendy and muddy course . |
| 4 | They ploughed cash into marketing attempts and even won a prize from the local council . |
| 5 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 6 | They arrived in separate motorcades and barely exchanged a glance as they walked across the tarmac . |
| 7 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
| 8 | Trowel in hand Carolyn stooped over the dense lettuce seedlings and carefully removed a clump of them . |
| 9 | The British approach to social policy as developed in the nineteenth century both understood this distinction and exploited it by making the workhouse the only alternative to family care and then deliberately creating conditions in workhouses which were both undesirable in terms of physical conditions and also reinforced a sense of shame , so that any relative who could be considered available would feel obliged to offer support . |
| 10 | One royal observer says : ‘ He was the envy of fellow officers and inevitably developed a crush on the princess . |
| 11 | USAID granted a loan of US$27,000,000 to help support the balance of payments and also endorsed a government plan announced in late October under which 7,000 public employees would be dismissed over the following year . |
| 12 | When he re-emerged on record in 1987 he was ready for all comers and quickly established a reputation as the upcoming DJ . |
| 13 | If Leeds had been playing a better team they would n't have won but such is the game that you ca n't play the big boys everyday ( thank God ) and Leeds eventually , to the fans relief , and mine too , registered their first win in four games and hopefully gained a confidence booster both for their defence and for our new goalkeeper Beeney who was called on to make only two saves , important as they were . |
| 14 | I have been lucky to have been on plenty of tours and hardly missed a training session or match so , by the law of averages , I ca n't complain about that disappointing end to what had been a very enjoyable season . |
| 15 | A graduate of Exeter College , Oxford , Tolkien had read Classical Mods and then done a version of the English course which was rigidly philological , and did not concern itself with post-medieval literature . |
| 16 | The problem for the State is , that while the family sent a letter in 1942 declaring its intention to reach an agreement over what should be considered inalienable heirlooms and therefore assured a permanence in the family 's headquarters of Schloss St Emmeram in Regensburg , this agreement was never actually realised . |
| 17 | Abolished the Greater London Council and metropolitan counties and thus removed a tier of strategic planning in many of the Green Belt areas . |
| 18 | He burned his letters and even destroyed a picture of the doctor 's dead father . |
| 19 | Erm I 've written umpteen letters and never got a job since . |
| 20 | If you have entered many competitions and never won a thing , this might not be because your work is poor . |
| 21 | The Council 's ten-point plan also included approaching Customs and Excise with exhortations about increased searches for illicit supplies and also involved a delegation going to the Home Office to meet the minister concerned with drug misuse . |
| 22 | At a secondhand shop they bought him a pair of rather tight jeans and also acquired a metal detector , opening up a whole range of possibilities . |