Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drivers roared round tight corners and skilfully navigated a twisty , bendy and muddy course . |
| 2 | At the same time as the petition was being circulated , the Action Committee wrote and widely circulated a letter that anyone , anywhere , could send to their own MPs . |
| 3 | In private , politicians discuss the wisdom of membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism and widely predict a devaluation within the ERM whichever party is in power next weekend . |
| 4 | He ruminated on the idea and nervously plucked a cigarette from the green onyx box beside the telephone . |
| 5 | Rooney grinned and nervously ran a wet hand under his cap , smoothing his tousled hair . |
| 6 | Dr Courtney was also found guilty of drugging and raping a woman who went to him for advice about work , and indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs . |
| 7 | Man charged : Steven Leach , 35 , of The Close , Walton , appeared at Liverpool today charged with abducting and indecently assaulting a boy of four , and was remanded in custody until Friday , after a massive police search . |
| 8 | Irina , turning on the hot water and vigorously mopping a plate , said , ‘ Do n't worry . |
| 9 | This picture has a more contemporary scenario , and successfully portrays a village at sleep |
| 10 | These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community . |
| 11 | Most health statistics , for example , are the result of people deciding that they are ill , and successfully convincing a doctor of this . |
| 12 | Inside , the rear seat squab can be slid 7in to and fro to give a choice of more rear leg room or extra boot space , and the back rest tilts through 30° . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , Ellie , ’ she whispered as she twisted to and fro to get a better look . |
| 14 | It is possible from the village , without too much effort , to survey the great wilderness of Fisherfield Forest from the east by taking the private road to the little huddle of buildings known as the Heights of Kinlochewe and thence following a rising track to the left until the vast amphitheatre is revealed in a surround of formidable mountains of which Slioch and Mullach Coire Mhic Fhearchair are now the most prominent . |
| 15 | And then , if I have achieved the aim of helping teachers understand their predicament , I hope that they may feel more purposeful , both individually and collectively , and thereby become a more powerful source of ideas and projects for the improvement of schooling , which are grounded simultaneously in a clear sense of educational values and an equally clear-sighted , hard-headed sense of what is possible and appropriate . |
| 16 | prepare detailed specifications of plant items and thereby become a discerning and knowledgeable purchaser of equipment and services ; |
| 17 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 18 | In the early phases of civilization 's development , the first phase of ‘ animism ’ , people project their inner emotions and impulses outwards and thereby populate a universe with various spirits and supernatural powers . |
| 19 | NME 's SIMON WILLIAMS has sued the compilers of THE PENGUIN BOOK OF ROCK 'N' ROLL WRITING for ‘ failing to include any of my work and thereby producing a totally unrepresentative collection ’ . |
| 20 | By 1846 he was deeply worried by the likely effects of free trade on monetary policy , and in two letters to the Standard he argued that , by increasing the demand for imports , free trade would precipitate an outflow of gold and thereby provoke a monetary crisis . |
| 21 | Such data could provide a better understanding of how pneumonia fits into the course of the chronic diseases it often accompanies , and thereby form a basis for therapeutic decision-making . |
| 22 | Through the emergence of the arts and crafts movement , Morris succeeded in establishing a craft tradition in which the individual could retain some control over every stage of manufacture from design to execution , and thereby gain a far more satisfactory relationship with the product . |
| 23 | In formulating the original agreement with Fields , Branson had ensured a clause be written in stipulating that , under the Articles , Virgin as the majority shareholder had the right to appoint more than two ‘ A ’ directors , and thereby gain a majority of the board , if it was ‘ not satisfied with the financial position , or the management position of the company ’ . |
| 24 | Generally any firm receiving government assistance experiences a reduction in its costs which is unavailable to its competitors , and thereby achieves a competitive advantage . |
| 25 | ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain . |
| 26 | This seems very improbable , though it would have been consistent with his character to reject an organized challenge to the social order but to appreciate and even think of emulating and thereby vanquishing a personal one . |
| 27 | But the rise in the rate of interest will do something else too : it will depress investment expenditure and thereby cause a fall in aggregate demand . |
| 28 | It has two functions : ( a ) it acts as a point of orientation by connecting back to previous stretches of discourse and thereby maintaining a coherent point of view and , ( b ) it acts as a point of departure by connecting forward and contributing to the development of later stretches . |
| 29 | If God can not be identified with man as a product of evolution , and thereby given a credible definition , then any effort to create a new and successful conception of God will founder on the same rocks of contention that have wrecked every religion that was ever believed in . |
| 30 | I 'd rather take that approach , and what I would suggest is that , wherever possible , teachers should think about involving parents in the kinds of difficulties that the child is having in school , and thereby becomes a team effort rather than parents working one direction and perhaps teachers working in another . |