Example sentences of "[verb] well [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arguments would appear to be evenly balanced , but we must also consider whether Chrissie and Fred are likely to work well together in the future after she has ‘ informed ’ on him . |
| 2 | ‘ People have to stand well back from the edge of the pavement or else risk being splashed by the mud and water spilling from these ‘ sealed ’ lorries , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Keeping well away from the edge and steeling herself against a spasm of vertigo , Melissa searched for several minutes , but found nothing further . |
| 4 | Then when we got to the sawmill I 'd stay close beside Uncle Bill watching him sawing and planing , keeping well away from the saw , until midday when the mill shut up for the week . |
| 5 | The vineyards of Oiry are located well away from the village on the lower slopes of the Butte de Saran at a level of between 100 and 120 metres . |
| 6 | Although positioned well away from the town centre , the Tirolerhof is not isolated , a regular bus service passes the hotel and the hotel will run clients into Kitzbuhel in the evening and collect them again at approximately 11pm . |
| 7 | When using a plunger , ensure that it seals well on to the surface ( smearing petroleum jelly on to the rubber surface helps ) and that you do n't simply pump the water up the overflow pipe and back into the sink — hold a wet cloth tightly over the overflow while using one . |
| 8 | It 's a taste that seems to be catching on in Japan , replacing a traditional fancy for whale meat , which is now priced well out of the range of most Japanese pockets . |
| 9 | But here , fingers are crossed that Cheltenham will finish well ahead of the rest of the field . |
| 10 | ‘ Och well , berry bushes will grow well enough behind the wall . |
| 11 | All these sizes can be worked out well in advance of actually typing anything onto the screen — indeed all design should be done well away from the computer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Provided the skin is peeled well out of the way any areas which the uterus might touch should in any case , be sterile . |
| 18 | HarperCollins shows well again with the trade paperback of Raymond Feist 's The King 's Buccaneer ( £8.99 ) and two Katherine Kerr titles , A Time of War ( £8.99 and hb ) the A format of the first in the series , A Time of Omens ( £4.99 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yes I know , but we 're not er we wo n't fiddle about with them until we get well on to the way because if we do that now we got ta take the welder up , you 've only got ta cut them off again because they 're in the way for the rest of the bloody coaches . |
| 21 | The other LASMO drivers — Dave Fowler and Matt Whitelaw — also managed to keep up a blistering pace , but this did not deter Dave Brittan who finished well ahead of the field . |
| 22 | Further down yet , the terracing ceased and became pairs of large semi-detached houses set well back from the road with the front gardens mostly paved and dedicated to parking space . |
| 23 | All items will be inspected well ahead of the opening of the fair , and nothing which has not been vetted , and whose description has not been approved , may be exhibited at any stage during the fair . |
| 24 | The lower you duck and the harder F pulls back , the better chance there is of getting well forwards on the boom . |
| 25 | Departmental managers , wanting a larger share of the cake , may feel aggrieved about the effect of the formulas on their plans , and may be jealous of those who appear to be doing well out of the process . |
| 26 | Everyone , it seemed , was doing well out of the erosion of the 1878 settlement except the Russians , for whom that settlement had been a defeat in the first place . |
| 27 | Surgical teams and nursing sisters — copiously provided with blood plasma , sulfa-drugs and penicillin , worked well forward in the battle area , so that a badly wounded man could be given emergency treatment without having to be removed along a bumpv road to hospital . |
| 28 | The road was quite busy , but the boys knew enough to keep well away from the kerb . |
| 29 | The men wore rubber ponchos and had exchanged their black berets for jungle hats pulled well down against the rain so that he was unable to discern whether Miguelito was amongst their number . |
| 30 | The layout of the aircraft was unusual in that the fuselage was set well back on the wing , that his the nose was very short in relation to the length of the rear fuselage . |