Example sentences of "do well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Blum tried his supporters saying they had done better than predicted . |
| 2 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 3 | To put it crudely , the experts may ( perhaps ) have done better than the widow in Boise , Idaho , would have done for herself , but still a lot worse than using a pin . |
| 4 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 5 | Warwickshire have a number of dual-purpose players and no-one has done better than Dermot Reeve , with 2,525 runs and 73 wickets in the last two championship seasons . |
| 6 | Mama Cass had done better than any of them with her solo career , but then tragically died so soon afterwards . |
| 7 | But other clubs facing similar conditions had done better than Leeds . |
| 8 | Davout told Thiercelin he had done better than expected , which was generous praise from him , especially as the marshal 's own enquiries had been unproductive . |
| 9 | Some have done better than others , but there 's just the physical reality of how long it takes the lower two strings to speak — it 's going to take a few milliseconds for that to happen . |
| 10 | He very much admired the poetry of Ebenezer Elliott , the Corn Law Rhymer , that is , a poet who helped to lead the opposition to the laws which kept the price of bread artificially high , and said ‘ None of us have done better than he has at his best ’ . |
| 11 | The man who said he saw the ‘ green shoots ’ of recovery nearly two years ago claimed that under Tory rule the country had done better than many of its competitors . |
| 12 | She had done better than that and taken it to a jeweller to be plated and put into a mount so it could hang on her chain . |
| 13 | Nobody , he said , could have done better than the Chancellor . |
| 14 | IBM 's Advanced Workstations & Systems president Bill Filip said last week that the company 's emergent RS/6000 business broke even or may have even done better than that in calendar 1992 though it was still ‘ overinvesting on development . ’ |
| 15 | He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority . |
| 16 | In the 12 periods analysed in the published articles , the portfolio ( theoretical or actual ) has done better than the UK stock market on nine occasions and worse on three occasions . |
| 17 | It had done better than the 5.30 Sunday Classic Serial and had proved an effective challenge to ITV 's Saturday afternoon serial , The Buccaneers . |
| 18 | I mean th th they 've done better than anybody than everything else , because as rates have come down , I can go back and see a client and the National Savings has fallen , and the building society 's fallen , but the , the annuity 's still plugging away . |
| 19 | Surely Sherlock Holmes could have done better than this ? |
| 20 | She felt she could have done better than she did with her next remark . |
| 21 | We 've done better than most , but our membership levels have suffered as well . |
| 22 | So you know what this is a measure of it 's not a measure of anything it does n't mean that one group 's done better than the others it just means that 's the way it 's been measured the work that they 've done has been measured by another group which is n't good or bad it 's just hopefully picking out the important criteria and applying them to the work that we 've done and the notes we 've produced and the way we 've marked other people 's . |
| 23 | ‘ The North-East has done better than the rest of the UK under Conservative policies . ’ |
| 24 | The programme has never done better than it is doing now , it is going great guns . ’ |
| 25 | Cos he thinks he should have done better than that and he 's right he should of done better . |
| 26 | Oh gosh , you would n't have done better than that , that 's for sure . |
| 27 | So I guess I have done better than some people . |
| 28 | I should think you 'd have easy done better than |
| 29 | ‘ The recession has had a severe impact upon the advertising market but by sheer hard work , backed by increasing readership we have been able to increase revenues over our last financial year — we would like to have done better but we are pleased to have held our own in a difficult market . ’ |
| 30 | Cascarino should have done better when he shot weakly on the turn , but was unlucky two minutes later when he struck the bar with a superb volley . |