Modifying Another Word

• virtually: Mine is the product of forty years ' work, virtually single-handed.

• almost: In March 1999, he suceeded almost single-handed in making the Czech Republic a member of the NATO alliance.

• mostly: I am planning a trip round the UK, mostly single-handed.

• again: He then rushed, again single-handed, an enemy bombing post.

Preposition: for

• year: It was founded by a Dr. Startin 22, who ran it single-handed for ten years.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• run: Introducing the expenditure strategy, Shadow Chancellor Oliver Letwin even remarked that Samuel Pepys once ran the navy almost single-handed.

• machine-gun: In 1917, while fighting in France, CSM Brooks captured a German machine-gun nest single-handed.

Modifies a noun

• sailor: The next stage for the aspiring single-handed sailor is into the Laser class in all its variants.

• rod: Would you like to: learn to cast easily with a single-handed fly rod?

• GP: The move to create primary care groups prompted 25 mainly single-handed GPs in Walsall to propose that they should form one PCG.

• sailing: George Thomson, the Scottish national coach, guided her through the system, advising her to focus on single-handed sailing.

• practitioner: I am a 54 year-old single-handed small animal practitioner.

• practice: In 1981 he set up his own single-handed general practice in Dagenham.

Used with adjective complement

• sail: The Russian Arctic has never before been sailed single-handed, and only five fully crewed yachts have made the passage.

• work: The new boat will be faster and more manageable, as well as easier for the skipper to work single-handed.

• do: What could he do single-handed against the host of the enemy?

• have: In the Assembly of that year, his friend, Mr. Carment, had almost single-handed supported an overture on that subject.

• manage: It is a very versatile rig, easily managed single-handed.

• attack: On a third occasion the sergeant attacked single-handed a machine gun, killed the crew and captured the gun.