Example sentences of "[verb] well [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR reasons that go deep into its past , Hungary has not done well out of the twentieth century . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They have a record going well back into the Cambrian , when it might be supposed that the chordates were undergoing a major diversification . |
| 4 | Attempts were to be made to ensure that the cities would continue to do well out of the rate-support grant . |
| 5 | The Conservative Party was the only other major political party to do well out of the inter-war years . |
| 6 | Ellwood walked down the row of trees , then circled the house , staying well back from the lighted windows . |
| 7 | At last she found the shop belonging to Dai Jones , it was spread well back from the front door , a long dimly lit store that sold everything from flour and salt to patent medicines . |
| 8 | Ensuring that the glazing of such new openings is kept well back from the external face of the walls ( at least 225mm ( 9in ) ) has meant that reflection has been minimised and the ‘ black hole ’ unglazed-opening appearance of apertures in traditional barns has been recreated . |
| 9 | In order to achieve this , they must attain seniority , with the implication that the South does well out of the Federal budget because its members of Congress are more likely , on average , to be reelected and therefore climb the seniority ladder . |
| 10 | This treatment was also applied to the smaller door , reached via a short flight of external stone steps that previously served the upper-level hay-loft , so that the new infilling panel of clear double-glazing , set well back from the external face of the wall , helps to light a sitting room while a ‘ door ’ , which can be swung like a shutter to seal this opening , is fixed back against the face of the adjoining flintwork . |
| 11 | Mr. Oswald Stoll — who was subsequently knighted — began to erect , in 1911 , one of his ‘ Empires ’ , a theatre of entertainment , in Chiswick High Road , situated between the ‘ Old Packhorse ’ on the corner of Acton Lane , and the family butchers , ‘ Caughts ’ which had its own slaughter house , as well as a shop set well back from the main road , just west of Essex Place Square . |
| 12 | Using full ( 48 degrees ) flap it glides like an auto-rotating helicopter with the cowling pointed well down towards the near shore . |