Example sentences of "[verb] well but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ewan is walking well but not talking . |
| 2 | Suburban and rural areas will recruit well but inner cities and council estates are short of volunteers . |
| 3 | The crews were still rowing well but as Cambridge 's bend began to end , Oxford drew level again . |
| 4 | Teddington rallied well but too late to save the game . |
| 5 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 6 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 7 | ‘ The recession has had a severe impact upon the advertising market but by sheer hard work , backed by increasing readership we have been able to increase revenues over our last financial year — we would like to have done better but we are pleased to have held our own in a difficult market . ’ |
| 8 | The new generation of women will do better but that 's not the full answer . |
| 9 | However , this must be weighed against the possibility that the island is a false peak , i.e. it scores well but is in fact incorrect . |
| 10 | They played well but they lost . |
| 11 | The team played well BUT far too fancy . |
| 12 | Rocky was playing and by the sounds of the radio coverage he played well but was substituted towards the end with Strandli coming on to replace him . |
| 13 | Passing Baku in the 13th century , Marco Polo noted that the black oil burned well but was not good with food . |
| 14 | Both girls had done well but Sheila had done brilliantly . |
| 15 | That old smarty pants Dr Samuel Johnson was fond of saying that a woman preaching was like a dog standing on hind legs — it was not done well but it was surprising to find it done at all . |
| 16 | And he has done well but then runs into trouble in the considerable shape of Ormanroyd who knocks it long . |
| 17 | ‘ They should be rewarded when things are going well but should take a financial hit when the chips are down . ’ |
| 18 | I read in one of the other papers that GG also said ( what many on this list have said before ) Cunt'anas was great when things were going well but would let you down when they were not . |
| 19 | Mike Teague says he was amazed at how many people turned out to watch … and it just goes to show how much Gloucester people enjoy their rugby … he says his comeback is going well but there 's a lot of pressure to keep winning and England want is a third grand slam … |
| 20 | They then grow the virus at 42°C , a temperature at which the avian virus grows well but the human virus does not flourish . |
| 21 | I think there 's a pride that , that the majority of firemen are , are fairly clean and smart erm there are the odd ones that have to be told but it 's not the same sort of discipline now as there was , and I 'm not sure whether it 's right or wrong , all I see I , I enjoy the discipline when I had it , I sometimes wish it was brought back but er it 's not the time now it seems for that type of discipline , so I think they manage well but er I would like to see a little more but perhaps I 'm a bit old fashioned . |
| 22 | If 1100 cc models are selling well but 1300 cc models are not , it may be in the seller 's interests to reduce the differential so as to attract more buyers to the 1300 cc models . |
| 23 | ‘ Today I 've taken 50 and it 's definitely selling well but mainly to students and English rugby fans . ’ |
| 24 | It was clear that UUUC were going to do well but many people including perhaps some UUUC candidates themselves were surprised at the extent of their success , The relative absence of " Centre " candidates in the Westminster X-vote election of October 1974 was marked and this alone and understandably made realists doubt the validity of the figures as a guide to a single transferable vote election six months later . |
| 25 | In 1985 his batting reached its peak at Taunton against a Warwickshire team who bowled and fielded well but who could not stop him making 322 , the highest first-class innings in England for thirty-six years ; after a slightly uncomfortable start , the second and third hundreds came off sixty-seven and sixty-three balls respectively , and only tiredness after a drive from Leeds the evening before caused his downfall . |
| 26 | The City Airport is doing better but it 's still not doing that well , there is a market for an airfield that would serve executive and freight business for North London and of course Hertfordshire , that airfield is needed . |
| 27 | I should have known better but I got a booking about half past nine in the evening . |
| 28 | the engine will seem to run well but there will be damage . |
| 29 | Rachaela knew she could read well but was virtually innumerate . |
| 30 | ‘ We are all doing well but so is Kylie . ’ |