Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , over half of the participants ( 56 per cent ) did not know how many beers they could drink before reaching the legal limit for driving and well over two-thirds of them knew neither how long it took for alcohol to be burned up by the body ( 71 per cent ) nor what , if anything , was an effective way of sobering up ( 71 per cent ) . |
| 2 | Then he caught sight of the empties and saw what had happened and began laughing as well . |
| 3 | Martha pointed out that everybody in the street was laughing as well . |
| 4 | ‘ Give it back you thief , ’ he bawls after me , but I spurt ahead , knocking over a coupla kids who start bawling and bellyaching as well , but I do n't stop to investigate , because after all , I 'm doing them a favour , the sooner they learn that life is full of hard knocks the better . |
| 5 | I 've bought that erm raspberry jam and some strawberry jam for us , I did n't realize that this would want replenishing as well |
| 6 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 7 | Marie originally did most of the cooking , and subsequently continued to supervise menu planning and food purchasing as well as handling the accounting aspects . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm willing to abide by all laws — and I 'll try to persuade other Romanies to do the same , but I 'm not likely to succeed until my people can see these laws protecting as well as persecuting them . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah , well I was erm I was trying to get get a night down there deejaying as well . |
| 10 | He was dying as well as the man at the airport . |
| 11 | As so often with convergent evolution , the differences are revealing as well as the similarities . |
| 12 | One of Dublin 's funniest comedians Carl McDermott will be appearing as well as Scotland 's answer to Paul Daniels — Kevin Kopfstein , a magician/ comic . |
| 13 | The Voces Quartet , consisting of four professors from the conservatory in Iaşi ( Moldavia ) , is a most accomplished ensemble whose playing shows understanding as well as outstanding technical assurance : the rather edgy 1980 recording does not flatter it , but its quality is nevertheless evident . |
| 14 | And we saw in 1.2 and again in 5.4 that the strongest sceptical arguments attack understanding as well as knowledge . |
| 15 | In these very years not a few of the lesser clergy were contributing as well to purveyances and local commissions of array , and suffering with the whole community the repercussions of wool customs . |
| 16 | Local centre events were often challenging as well as rewarding and perhaps none more so than South Cumbria 's ‘ Operation Isolate ’ . |
| 17 | This form of acquired dyslexia is sometimes called pure alexia or alexia without agraphia , the reason being that , as a rule , these patients have no impairment of writing or spelling , and so they contrast with patients having other kinds of acquired dyslexia , all of whom have had impaired writing and spelling as well as impaired reading . |
| 18 | and continue with my knitting and I 'm painting as well |
| 19 | To top it all off , the pockets are flashed with braiding as well . |
| 20 | Its pictures should be artistically entrancing as well . |
| 21 | According to the estate this is running at around £30,000 per annum and in addition to this , a survey that would take into account climbing as well as safety interests would cost a further £10,500 . |
| 22 | And he was driving as well , were n't you ? |
| 23 | , was he driving as well ? |
| 24 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 25 | ‘ All the players from the side are living and well , thank God , ’ reports Derry PRO Bernie Mullan , ‘ Hugh Francis Gribben is perhaps the man furthest removed as he now lives in Meath where he is a land steward . ’ |
| 26 | She said Mr Mandela told them that he had written a document setting out his views on negotiations , the prospect of which President de Klerk has been promoting since well before the National Party returned to power in the 6 September elections . |
| 27 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 28 | Eliza is portrayed as the most emotionally-balanced member of her family : she is loving as well as reasonable ( hence the original title of the book — ‘ Love and Reason ’ ) . |
| 29 | And probably in the picking as well . |
| 30 | The toilets were found wanting as well . |