Example sentences of "[verb] well [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember that most shoals of sizeable bream , say fish of more than 3lb , patrol beats well out from the banks . |
| 2 | He 'd waited for Lucy but then , when she had n't come out alone , he 'd stayed well back in the shadows . |
| 3 | The beats are almost always found well out from the margins . |
| 4 | The sound seemed to come from a heap of stones that lay well back among the trees . |
| 5 | The Suffolk 's head is big with a broad forehead , and often with a star on it or a shim or blaze down the face ; the neck deep in the collar and tapering to a graceful setting of the head ; the shoulders long and muscular and thrown well back at the withers . |
| 6 | I look cautiously out again , standing well back in the shadows … |
| 7 | The following morning , Arty was taken by ambulance to the huge Victorian red-brick pile on the edge of town — a massive structure set well back in the fields and surrounded by a high wall to protect the sensibilities of the sane from too close a confrontation with one of society 's more disagreeable problems . |
| 8 | On the Lagos Government Railway , simple white two-storeyed stations with an upper veranda supported on the columns of the lower , set well back from the tracks , were standard . |