Example sentences of "too well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the growth in pre-marital sexual experience which has taken place , it might be supposed that selection of a long-term partner on these lines would be easier ; but human beings still have a tendency to believe that everything will be all right in the end and a surprising number have said to me , " things did n't go too well before we married but I thought they 'd work out . " |
| 2 | We both knew only too well because of the business we were in and the sort of people we were what could happen . ’ |
| 3 | I went , and then I went well he ca n't have looked around for us too well because we were walking by the side of the road . |
| 4 | He knew only too well where that would lead . |
| 5 | She knew only too well where they 'd find some of it . |
| 6 | erm , I ca n't read it too well cos I 've only had about couple of lessons on it . |
| 7 | Naturally , she wo n't respond too well if I 'm involved . |
| 8 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 9 | Settlements emparked in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries tend not to survive too well as earthworks , but abandoned sixteenth-or seventeenth-century garden schemes often incorporate remains of village earthworks . |
| 10 | She had remembered all too well as she spoke to Glyn . |
| 11 | One day I had one of the prototype JS1s ; it was an ash body and that did n't work out too well when we were looking for woods . |
| 12 | Steamer sometimes anchored off and sometimes it did n't anchor there was too much wind I guess the anchor did n't hold too well when it was a rough day . |