Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council accepted the report , amending one sentence to-read : ‘ For reasons which are apparent from the rest of this report the Visiting Party could not feel assured that the Director was fully and properly exercising his responsibility for the ‘ internal organisation and management and discipline of the Polytechnic ’ , in accordance with the Articles of Government' . |
| 2 | The man , who can not be named for legal reasons , admitted the charges falsely imprisoning and indecently assaulting his superior on August 9 last year . |
| 3 | A 23-YEAR-OLD customs man who drugged , bound and indecently assaulted his woman boss in a revenge attack after being passed over for promotion was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey in London yesterday . |
| 4 | Woolley took off his helmet and vigorously massaged his scalp . |
| 5 | George concluded the evening — and successfully reclaimed his right to be seen as a sober enough man — by reciting ‘ The Bashful Wooer ’ from the works of one he announced as ‘ the greatest poet of Cumberland and Westmorland , a man living among us today , our own Robbie Burns — Robert Anderson of Carlisle … ’ |
| 6 | Loughran , a distinguished amateur who landed a 1987 world junior championship silver medal , has won 21 of his 23 professional fights ( one draw and one defeat by disqualification ) , and successfully defended his Commonwealth crown against Michael Benjamin last month . |
| 7 | If they said John was a prophet and thereby received his authority from God , they would be criticised for not listening to him . |
| 8 | This word ‘ gently ’ enhances the tenderness of the lines , while ‘ fields unsown ’ tells us that the man had to go and work in the fields , suggesting a strength and a vigour which he must have had and thereby making his death harder to accept . |
| 9 | ‘ I have viewed a number of plants where the inception of computer equipment is viewed as a way to further de-skill the worker , and thereby lower his wage , ’ Melman added . |
| 10 | ‘ He was first rate ! ’ enthused Surkov , using the English adjective and thereby giving his compliment an ironic tinge . |
| 11 | Many students felt Deng was on their side , for they were not politically sophisticated enough to realise that he was using their movement to attack his opponents and thereby strengthen his own position . |
| 12 | She decided that the best means to this end was to learn Re 's secret name and thereby transfer his power to herself . |
| 13 | And so the arrival of Jaggers , bearing the news of his great expectations is to him , a way of raising his social standard to that of Estella 's and thereby improving his chances with her . |
| 14 | The sight of the youth who had so displeased the detested recruiter and thereby jeopardized his future supply of coolies stopped Duclos in his tracks . |
| 15 | In spite of his frustrations , though , he fell in love with the country and eventually made his home in Jerusalem . |
| 16 | Richard Baxter again pacified the crowd and eventually finished his sermon without further interruption . |
| 17 | The provision of appropriate help to enable the patient himself to resolve the crisis and eventually overcome his problems . |
| 18 | The humble people bring up the hero as their own child , eventually the hero realizes through a dream , through a prophecy , a visitation or something that he is not the child of his humble parents , but the find out who his real parents were , and then returns and arduous struggles and eventually gains his rightful place . |
| 19 | Starting out with the Boston Consultancy Group , and eventually forming his own firm , Telesis ( Greek for well-planned progress ) , Mr Magaziner specialised in advising large companies ( Ford and General Electric ) and small countries ( Sweden ) on why things cost as much as they do , and how they can be made to cost less . |
| 20 | Like many footballers at the twilight of their careers , Rough looked round for a suitable business interest and eventually opened his own shop in Musselburgh . |
| 21 | The Development Corporation of Harlow New Town made a flat available , but unfortunately he had little opportunity to make his mark because of recurrent illness and eventually resigned his post in September 1958 . |
| 22 | Victor Matthews , Trafalgar 's vice-chairman , was in the familiar self-made baron mould and duly acquired his barony from Mrs Thatcher . |
| 23 | Of course this is something of a joke nowadays and the clerk usually starts the ball rolling by reminding the archers they are now under rule seven , ‘ so do n't damn well forget it ’ , and duly pays his shilling . |
| 24 | And she , in turn , knowingly and secretly absorbing his stare as she listened to her chattering companions , began to dismiss him as a potential client . |
| 25 | He undressed her equally slowly , and she felt as though she were standing outside herself , watching almost with detachment as he exposed her breasts to his gaze and slowly lowered his head until his mouth could touch one rosy peak . |
| 26 | ‘ Essen kommt , ’ he said in his former hearty voice , and slowly rubbed his stomach with one hand . |
| 27 | Eliot ( with some deliberation and slowly crumbling his cake ) : ‘ Yes , you could say that . ’ |
| 28 | Dawson laughed and slowly shook his head . |
| 29 | Suddenly he looked up and slowly shook his head . |
| 30 | Oliver began to recover and slowly regain his strength . |