Example sentences of "[vb past] well [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirteen districts used well established instruments , 33 used locally developed instruments , and 66 used a combination . |
| 2 | Our purpose built well equipped creche is full of all the toys and games that children enjoy and our fully qualified and experienced staff will ensure that your child is happy and well looked after whilst you enjoy the attractions of the Sportcentre . |
| 3 | He was told about Sutton and Penge depôts which he visited and found well run , particularly Penge for fear of losing face with the Corporation , who maintained high standards . |
| 4 | In fast , we found well differentiated carcinomas to contain significantly less urokinase type plasminogen activator antigen compared with poorly differentiated carcinomas ( Table II ) . |
| 5 | We catch remote glimpses of the camaraderie in the Mess of his ‘ family ’ , as he called it , of young officers , many of them ‘ sprigs of nobility ’ whom he found well equipped to withstand the displeasure of senior officers when they were the bearers of unwelcome orders . |
| 6 | He played well to finish joint third in the Dubai Open , where he played all four rounds under par , but missed the cut in the Johnnie Walker Classic in Singapore . |
| 7 | The first 20 moves were theory , Yusupov played well to force repetition in an endgame where Timman had bishop and knight against rook and pawn . |
| 8 | Thorpe B are already relegated , but they played well to hold Jaywick A to a draw , Tony Bull taking a maximum three , and Robin Rush chipping in with a good win over Doug Green . |
| 9 | Portsmouth were back level in two minutes … the United defence in which new signing Anton Rogan played well got caught out by hot shot Chapman again |
| 10 | Portsmouth were back level in two minutes … the United defence in which new signing Anton Rogan played well got caught out by hot shot Chapman again |
| 11 | ‘ We were the obvious favourites at St Andrews , but England played well to beat us . |
| 12 | The Farnham defence , with Nicky Martin outstanding , played well to contain Wokingham , but the visitors took the lead with a fine goal . |
| 13 | ‘ you came well prepared with your sister 's business card , and a letter typed on some of my headed paper . ’ |
| 14 | The technique evolved from the introduction of percutaneous cholecystostomy as an alternative to surgical cholecystostomy and utilised well established technicues for dilating percutaneous tracts and stone extraction . |
| 15 | He had been moved to a higher class , seemed well adjusted and chatted a lot when she worked with him . |
| 16 | Since such a system seemed well founded in Britain it chose to ignore British fascism , unlike the Communist Party , which was prepared to fight the BUF on the streets at Olympia and Cable Street . |
| 17 | It was clear that the London meeting had strengthened the Entente and , as a bonus , hopes for an end to the war seemed well founded . |
| 18 | It looked comfortable , but everything seemed well used and , to Morton 's eye , not harmonious . |
| 19 | Salisbury , an eager nightwatchman , held out against some torrid deliveries midst some frantic appealing , and all seemed well set for a gripping fourth and fifth day . |
| 20 | His previous incarnations seemed well known to Primaflora who had last seen him , presumably , crossing from the service of the Grand Commander Louis de Magnac to that of Nicholas with total aplomb . |
| 21 | It was a role to which he seemed well suited , for he displayed little originality of mind and almost no strong convictions — except in defence of the Church of England . |
| 22 | For this essentially destructive task , this necessary clearing of the ground so that greater liberty for the individual could be obtained naturally and more or less spontaneously , an absolute ruler seemed well suited . |
| 23 | General SVQs seemed well suited to our needs . |
| 24 | From what I could see of it , the notebook seemed well designed . |
| 25 | Colin Hendry turned well to make it 1-0 . |
| 26 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
| 27 | A strong fight back by Viking was not enough with many of their shots off target and the Liverpool side defended well to retain the youth championship . |
| 28 | But , kicking against the strong wind , the Oak defended well to keep the deficit to 1–0 and they came back with a strong display in the second half . |
| 29 | Sacambambaspis and several other recently discovered well preserved heterostracans from the Silurian of the North West Territories and the Canadian Arctic all show perfectly symmetrical tails . |
| 30 | Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud . |