Example sentences of "very well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not carry out their instructions very well so they had to be very precise in explaining things to me . |
| 2 | ‘ When I was his age I said contentious things like he did last week , but I did not speak English very well so I did not get into trouble . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've coped with this very well before ’ |
| 4 | Confident as Sara was of her own skill as a horsewoman , she would have had to know him very well before she dared to ride him , but Bunny , she knew , rode him constantly without fear . |
| 5 | They are caught very well since they are travelling at top speed . |
| 6 | From Figure 4.3 it can be seen that shareholders of Jaguar have done very well since privatisation — especially as a result of the bid from Ford . |
| 7 | It holds its shape very well since it does n't get broken springs , lumps or bumps . |
| 8 | It would be a shame to see Rocky dropped again after apparently playing very well since he came into the side , but at the same time I ca n't really see him keeping Strach out of the team . |
| 9 | Indeed it is possible that we do not understand these things very well unless standardization is taken into account . |
| 10 | Although some children see very well once their glasses are prescribed , many have vision which can not be improved above 6/60 . |
| 11 | You mentioned in the annual report and accounts that Expressions was meant to be doing very well although its more up market brands were slightly more sluggish . |
| 12 | Can you suggest anyway to stop the fuel evaporating , retaining the original carbs , choke etc , as the vehicle runs very well until I switch off when warm . |
| 13 | There are also rivers for which LAOs have not attempted to make agreements on the grounds that there are no problems or there is not sufficient demand , all very well until someone decides to apply the letter of the law as it presently stands . |
| 14 | This job at the lab would do Brenda very well until she married . |
| 15 | It 's an interesting one because er er , really the thing , th the sentence goes , or the , the principle works very well until you get to the word honest . |
| 16 | David asked if I could jive and at this particular time I always dressed as a man , which was probably another reason Calvin and I got along very well because Calvin wore velvet suits and I wore velvet suits — so that was one area we got on very well . |
| 17 | ‘ I could n't see his face very well because the leaves and branches were in the way , but I saw him climb the fence and steal the bulbs . ’ |
| 18 | Posters also teach young people how to develop a sense of erm they also make life much more fun more interesting and erm this is great contrast with Harlow and an urban area like Greater London area where as the report by erm in er the report the report on observation in London you know did n't mention the fact that publicity is of course is much more much greater than the London area erm and erm er one thing I see is missing could er er the reason is we found er the film society we ca n't advertise our events very well because of the restrictive bylaws on advertising poster advertising in Harlow I wonder if something could be done about this ? |
| 19 | Ambitious young curators have a different axe to grind and it worked out very well because I did n't produce that much . |
| 20 | This suited me very well because it had large rooms and wide doors . |
| 21 | Last time er it was er free distribution , so they needed someone to , workers for that and Sikh temple offered their services and er , I think they did the job very well because mostly we get a lot of volunteers round and er , many times I went their there was quite a big queue , er five or six people were serving at the same time . |
| 22 | I remember that day very well because it was the first day that Mr. Andrew did n't come . " |
| 23 | Users who have commented that , " It should look for phrases " or " Why does it do it word by word ? " can only be answered by saying that phrase searching often does not work very well because many books are not described in the catalogue by the phrases which searchers use . |
| 24 | I ca n't cook or clean because you all do that , I do n't even sew very well because you do it better , I ca n't play or draw , not really — ’ |
| 25 | And er and because we call him he spoke there and he spoke very well because and erm that 's it . |
| 26 | What we 're , in effect what we 're saying is that for a a number of years the Communist Party has provided , has made that moral economy work i in a s and made it work very well because rents have been reduced more than the peasants would expect erm er interest rate is extremely low . |
| 27 | Maybe it 's gone very well because neither of us is — well , committed to anyone else . |
| 28 | Lee Jackson has been competing very well as hooker and deserves another chance . |
| 29 | This suited me very well as I could stay with her , only two miles down the A1 , as part of my annual leave at Chester . |
| 30 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |