Example sentences of "[be] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm also sure that they 're well and truly hidden from prying eyes like yours or mine . ’ |
| 2 | I said if I was n't awake I 'm well and truly awake now . |
| 3 | She would be well and truly mystified by the sight of an elderly king who needs to be helped into his chair one minute , but can swing his cane around like a golf stick the next , and even more flummoxed by the depiction of a world in which the porter has closed circuit television , but the method of killing has n't changed a jot . |
| 4 | The ice will be well and truly broken . |
| 5 | If I know anything about it , I 'll be well and truly mobile by then . ’ |
| 6 | Finally , government and unions entered into a Faustian agreement known as the ‘ social contract ’ ( 1974 ) , in which the government proved to be well and truly cast in the principal role . |
| 7 | It went clean through the Redruth posts and the Soviet Union 's first tour of England had been well and truly launched . |
| 8 | The tournament has been well and truly annexed by the British for the past four years , and the form book still favours a non-American winner this time . |
| 9 | Now , in our classless society , it has been well and truly democratised . |
| 10 | Their task of containing their adversaries , without committing themselves to outright attack , had been well and truly done . ’ |
| 11 | An understanding of this should have been well and truly introduced into the minds of children by the time they are old enough to play such games as those which simulate parental behaviour . |
| 12 | Christ 's message of peace and goodwill to all men has been well and truly eclipsed by today 's stars . |
| 13 | No one speaks till the news is over and Ken 's cobwebs have been well and truly blown away . |
| 14 | But by the time crime categories or definitions have been established , the most important foundation stone of ‘ our crime problem ’ has been well and truly buried in cement , beyond the reach of any liberal ‘ scientific ’ shovel . |
| 15 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 16 | This is an area in which young people 's enthusiasm has been well and truly aroused at school . |
| 17 | The very private little operation had been well and truly let out of the bag . |
| 18 | THE CONCRETE centre of Newcastle on a freezing Friday night and Lynchmob are trying , but they 've been well and truly outflanked . |
| 19 | The range of objectives to be met , and potential opponents , are narrower and this time the ground has already been well and truly broken by a predecessor . |
| 20 | A short wooden sword was clutched in one grimy hand and the boy 's shirt had been well and truly ripped . |
| 21 | It had been well and truly earthed . |
| 22 | THE CONCRETE centre of Newcastle on a freezing Friday night and Lynchmob are trying , but they 've been well and truly outflanked . |
| 23 | Like a woman who 's just been well and truly kissed . |
| 24 | The padded fabric varieties are well and truly childproof — and look very attractive . |
| 25 | One of the prince 's aides said : ‘ If you believe there is a publicity war between them , then the gloves are well and truly off . ’ |
| 26 | By now you are well and truly into the region of the great valleys that run off at right-angles from the watershed , the ‘ Pyrenees of the saves ’ , as geographers have tended to name it , to distinguish it from the configuration of the mountains further east , where the valleys are mostly more orthodox and run cross-ways or parallel with the frontier . |
| 27 | Some relationships have already split up before girls realise that their periods have stopped or they feel a bit sick , and they discover they are well and truly pregnant . |
| 28 | Professor Albert Kligman , director of the Ageing Skin Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania , sees this pattern of treating the skin with a combination of high-powered drugs and low-tech skin care as an omen for the future — the days when cosmetic products strained to imitate the actions of a prescription-only medicine , he believes , are well and truly over . |
| 29 | And it said , in no uncertain terms , that the uncertainties of the pre-production phase of the project are well and truly over . |
| 30 | ‘ I think we are well and truly marooned , ’ said he . |