Example sentences of "could [vb infin] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm sweets , I could eat well mine and somebody else 's ! |
| 2 | If the agricultural seats are added to the middle-class strongholds , it can be seen why Conservatism was so strong between the wars , for the party could count well over 200 seats as unshakably safe and on 300 as reliable enough to be won except in a very bad year . |
| 3 | Fears are now rife that the price could plunge well below 30p by the end of the year . |
| 4 | I looked forward to the time when I could speak well enough to talk to them . |
| 5 | Not that Masha was unable to enjoy herself — she had a fine sense of humour and loved to sing , which she could do well , serenading the songs of her homeland — lullabies and airs which still resonate in her son 's head to this day . |
| 6 | Rose Hill could do well in the women 's event now that last year 's champion from Denmark , Connie Hansen , has decided not to take part this time . |
| 7 | Education as a complex process could do well to recognise and learn from the business community in this whole massively expanding area . |
| 8 | Piano duettists who have tired of presenting the Brahms Hungarian Dances or the Op. 39 Waltzes in recitals could do well to make the acquaintance of this work . |
| 9 | According to Credit Suisse Asset Management , smaller company shares could do well in 1993 . |
| 10 | If investors get in now while the markets are low they could do well . |
| 11 | ‘ When I first watched Michael Chang play tennis , ’ Jose recalls , ‘ I told several people that I believed Chang could do well at the French Open . |
| 12 | I knew I could do well academically and I did it as a challenge to the conventional idea of the black kid who 's good at sports , yet with no brains . |
| 13 | If you go immediately to Grasmere — unless other fish are being fried , but your letters are too vague for me to judge — ( what are you doing ? ) — then I think you could do well . |
| 14 | " I could do well , but I think how I related to people was as important as how well I did at school . |
| 15 | I 'm sure we could do well together , despite your scorpion tongue . |
| 16 | The only thing I could do well was cook . |
| 17 | But those about to leave the damp and wintry British Isles for sunnier climes could do well to reflect on just two products from one of ICI 's most successful businesses which derive , ultimately , from salt deposits found beneath the Cheshire countryside and the technology used to extract useful materials from it . |
| 18 | I was fit and could run well . |
| 19 | They said 78 per cent could now read the bottom line of an optician 's sight test card without glasses and 97 per cent could see well enough without glasses to pass the driving test sight standard . |
| 20 | He had left the gas low so that the room was poorly lit , but he could see well enough . |
| 21 | The senior porter had said , ‘ Sign here , please , Nurse , ’ and been kind when he had to wait until I could see well enough to sign that No. 4 was David Alistair Grant from Arthur Ward . |
| 22 | That offer is still open and I think it could work well if people could be bothered . |
| 23 | His mission was to show that socialism was not only politically possible but could work well in practice , a natural extension and not ( as it was sometimes portrayed by the left ) a betrayal of his previous commitment . |
| 24 | But the centre 's new manager , Mr Albion Small , said late night Thursday opening had proved very successful in Newcastle and could work well in Darlington after the centre opens on August 27 . |
| 25 | They tried to find work where they could function well ; for example , a deaf person said she would avoid a position which involved treating patients in groups and would never work in a very large hospital . |
| 26 | Just out of sight and sound of Dorchester lies a quiet park on whose rising ground the Palladian house stands , built all of a piece in 1754 , though not to the mansion proportions its creator could have well afforded . |
| 27 | And heavy rain , at this period of the siege , was something that the garrison could have well done without . |
| 28 | Two of the latter were fighting for possession of a rather inebriated seaman on the quayside by Venturous one afternoon , an unusual entertainment but one we could have well done without . |
| 29 | And er I could yes I could hear well then . |
| 30 | Rachaela knew she could read well but was virtually innumerate . |