Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] well [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrestled to control himself , but the faint hope of convincing Mr Graham propelled the words irrepressibly from his lips : ‘ Actually , ’ he said as his boss opened the door , ‘ our banks have done rather well out of the debt crisis … ’ |
| 2 | Certainly , it is no secret that , in proportional terms , Scotland has done rather well out of the arrangements . |
| 3 | THERE is a degree of planetary turmoil to contend with in November although , because much of it is focused in a sign entirely compatible with your own , you may do rather well out of the situation . |
| 4 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 5 | ‘ Though after last night … ’ his glance raked her face ‘ … maybe you 'd have done quite well out of the deal if you 'd bothered to follow through . ’ |
| 6 | In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies . |
| 7 | A few farmers even managed to do very well out of the exorbitant prices charged to urban residents for a few mouthfuls of grain . |
| 8 | erm A loyal friend , as well as an extremely amusing one , he seems to me to have lived remarkably well up to the standards that he set himself . |