Example sentences of "[vb past] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a proud , caring president of the Cricketers ' Association , especially during the difficult Packer years , the implications of which he read better than any . |
| 2 | They held Grimma in awe because of the way she shouted at the men and read better than anyone . |
| 3 | Mohammed Azharuddin 's side have bowled , batted , caught and fought better than England . |
| 4 | It is also very fast , especially using the parallel cable option , and gave transfer rates in our test setup that averaged better than 4 megabytes per minute . |
| 5 | Concurrent Computer Corp , which recently posted better than expected third quarter results ( see below ) , has opted to take Unix System Labs ' Unix System V Release 4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , due out by the end of this calendar year ( UX No 402 ) . |
| 6 | Cinema audiences in the 1920s expected better and better things and cinema-going became part and parcel of their social betterment . |
| 7 | Lose a ride to one of your best friends , on the horse people had said you rode better than anyone else — that too was racing . |
| 8 | Despite the pain , he rode better and harder than ever and in the last five races stood on the podium four times and came within 12 seconds of his first GP win . |
| 9 | Gradually his playing became better than his singing . |
| 10 | Perhaps they succeeded better than they deserved . |
| 11 | He quickly tried to put the record straight by claiming he had simply meant they operated better than before they held their own funds . |
| 12 | SCOTTISH Television reported better than expected figures in the half year to end June despite a £2.3m charge to cover the cost of voluntary redundancies and early retirement . |
| 13 | Concurrent Computer Corp says it is continuing to work with its financial advisers on a series of initiatives to strengthen further its capital structure , improve profitability and provide financial flexibility , but only if it does not dilute shareholders ' interests in the company , which reported better than expected third quarter figures — in Company Results , page seven . |
| 14 | William , who attended the meeting , also agreed that he behaved better when the eyes of the world were upon him . |
| 15 | The distinctions near the bottom were equally interesting : barbers , bartenders and truck drivers , for instance , rated better than waiters , taxi drivers and night-watchmen , who in turn could look down slightly on gardeners , miners and dustmen . |
| 16 | Never having been aboard a ship before , she found she had a natural liking for the sea life : she suffered no seasickness at all , and as João had sent an excellent chef to cook her meals , she dined well and developed a taste for the green wine of Portugal . |
| 17 | Teddington rallied well but too late to save the game . |
| 18 | The marathon four mile trip brought out the best in Keep Talking and he rallied well when challenged by the useful Irish raider High Peak to win by four lengths . |
| 19 | During the middle rounds , when Mason still believed one punch could end it , he outjabbed the Wandsworth man and opened a cut over his left eye , but Mason rallied well and the last session in particular left no doubt as to which way the verdict would go . |
| 20 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 21 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 22 | Billy refused to allow this to affect his performances in the Palace goal and he never played better than in his last two League games for us at the end of the 1931–32 season . |
| 23 | A generous Dalglish said : ‘ Watford played better than the score suggests , but obviously we are pleased to see a few goals go in . ’ |
| 24 | So , Leeds played better than average and Sunderland ( looking at there league form ) played out of there skins . |
| 25 | Merson , against my previous judgement , played better than I though he could ! |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , but we played better when I went off ! ’ he said , referring to the fact that Dale were camped in the opponents ' penalty area in the final half hour . |
| 27 | If I gave them an order to couple up a full line of maybe ten coaches , I would n't take it for granted that they 'd done it , I 'd walk up the coach , one walk up one side , down the other side and I would n't If there were a heating valve not open , if they forgot that you see , I would n't do it for them , I would go back and I 'd say , that S K third from the back end , the heating valve is not pulled down , you 've missed it , you 'd better When you 're up that way , just pull it down you see . |
| 28 | You 'd better if you know what 's good for you ! |
| 29 | ‘ Social democracy ’ scored better than ‘ communism ’ or ‘ liberalism ’ when Poles and Hungarians were asked how they now felt about these ‘ isms ’ in a poll that was organised recently by a French firm , Conseils-Sondages-Analyses and Le Journal des Elections . |
| 30 | TV scored better than the national dailies for nearly all the categories of news listed in a survey for the 1974 Press Commission ( Table 6.12 ) . |