Example sentences of "do well [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | I concede that the Chemical Industries Association could have done better and am grateful for the extra publicity ( Chem . |
| 3 | Only the instructor had done better and none of the officers who had come to amuse themselves on the range had more than a dozen hits out of 18 rounds . |
| 4 | Even with the problems , he still believed the team should have done better and was disappointed with the standard of performance , although he conceded home advantage was telling . |
| 5 | They have their ways of doing things — you might think some of these could be done better or in a different way . |
| 6 | The new generation of women will do better but that 's not the full answer . |
| 7 | Mr Hodgson explained that in buying up so many small firms , who really could no longer make ends meet , he , Howard Hodgson , could do better and cheaper funerals and that no one need worry about the cost any way , because if the deceased or whoever was taking the responsibility of next-of-kin possessed less than £300 , the DHSS would pay for the whole thing . |
| 8 | Yes we can do better and yes we are getting better , but all that 's gon na cost money . |
| 9 | I do n't care how different he is underneath , ’ she cut through Davide 's protests , ‘ how much bluster it is , blusterers make poor husbands , never could make a woman happy for more than five minutes , and anyway , Caterina can do better and I 'll see to it that Rosalba does better too . |
| 10 | I 've got no specific figures or names in mind , but I think there will be a further growth , particularly in the number of people who supply existing credit cards , and that 's important because they may do better and different deals with the retailers over how much they charge for the processing . |
| 11 | An ideal utilitarian like Moore may claim to have the moral insight that promise keeping is only right or obligatory , where one can not do better or as well by breaking the promise ( taking general account of effects on human trust into account ) but he can not claim that this insight is merely into how words are properly used . |
| 12 | What did you do well and what were your weaknesses ? |
| 13 | if they 've got a job or something they 're frightened they 're not gon na do well and |
| 14 | Both girls had done well but Sheila had done brilliantly . |
| 15 | That old smarty pants Dr Samuel Johnson was fond of saying that a woman preaching was like a dog standing on hind legs — it was not done well but it was surprising to find it done at all . |
| 16 | And he has done well but then runs into trouble in the considerable shape of Ormanroyd who knocks it long . |
| 17 | All have done well and all shall have prizes . |
| 18 | ‘ So , Wilson , ’ Mr Browning said , shifting uncomfortably , ‘ you have done well and I am grateful . |
| 19 | Some have done well and now own the businesses in which they were once employed or have opened their own . |
| 20 | Taureg had done well and had received her just and sincere due , but this was tot time , and on board the depot ship Omega , first things came first . |
| 21 | It 's unheard of for a two-year-old to race against older horses in America , but my horse has done well and I hope more will follow us over . |
| 22 | Fiction and drama , when they are done well and provide a convincing , realistic context in which serious crimes occur , can often enable us to imagine ourselves doing things which , in the abstract description , we would consider impossible . |
| 23 | Organizations like this are not good at remembering the things you have done well and if , as most of us are , you are at the bottom of the pile , you will find that you are considered to be alternately either the best thing since sliced bread , or a liability to the organization . |
| 24 | The number-two car with Dino Tremiti had done well and held current pole position , but even if Ace did brilliantly the Brazilian who drove for Carlisle Flint 's closest rivals was hot on his tail , and he had a reputation for being able to go just that little bit faster under the pressure of a time to beat . |
| 25 | It has done well and civilianised 73 per cent . |
| 26 | And it certainly can be done well and I beleive with these standards it will be done well . |
| 27 | For teams north and south of the border who have done well and they are classed as foreign for the Tourist Board 's crystal trophy for the best visiting team . |
| 28 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 29 | ‘ But he 's done well and hopefully he now sees it the same as we do and we will see him on the bench in our next league game . ’ |
| 30 | from her , training that er Princess Marina , and said oh this is Joy and this is Jenny and er , she 's done well and when I came away Jenny went just in front of me into Sue who works for me Sue she 's , she 's the , the area , the area manager |