Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] well [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd waited for Lucy but then , when she had n't come out alone , he 'd stayed well back in the shadows . |
| 2 | Even Moran had to admit it though he dismissed it as well by saying that it would have done well enough for the likes of him as it had been . |
| 3 | Conditions were not so bad , however , that Pliny and his mother could not have got well away from the town into a safer region , but they were reluctant to leave because they were worried and uncertain about the fate of the elder Pliny . |
| 4 | Sole suggested that Smith 's Gloucester colleague , Peter Jones , had done well enough on the tour to be marked down as heir apparent at loose-head . |
| 5 | Serbia had done well out of the Congress , but disliked the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( resistance to which was suppressed by force ) . |
| 6 | With the dreams of 1945 's Labour victory long gone , and the pretensions of the Conservatives painfully exposed it was the hour for the group of young meritocrats who had done well out of the peace , the Angry Young Men . |
| 7 | The flak even extended to the Prime Minister 's press office , which created a storm in parts of the media for suggesting that Scotland had done well out of the Budget . |
| 8 | The important thing is , they 've moved well away from the relegation area ; poor old Watford and Hull , things looking very bleak for them , they 're trailed seven points behind Leicester , ten points behind Oxford , both Watford and Hull have twenty six points . |
| 9 | The other had gone for the Wood but had entered well away from the large conifer Werewolf headed for . |
| 10 | Ladybirds have done well out of the exceptional summer , as have sweet chestnut trees ; this is the first year that I can recall collecting chestnuts locally that are large enough to eat . |