Example sentences of "very well and " in BNC.

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1 Part of the time he may almost be unaware that he is speaking to another person — after all Gila does n't understand English very well and it is unlikely that she would fully understand the references to Rupert Brooke and the poem ‘ The Old Vicarage , Grantchester ’ .
2 ‘ On the contrary , she understands me very well and I 'm still free to play chess . ’
3 On the hole , ASR works very well and will undoubtedly help keep SLs out of the panel beaters .
4 Reg Akehurst 's horses are running very well and Solidasarock ( 1.30 ) , ridden by Scudamore , should give the Epsom trainer his eighth winner from 13 runners this season in the Curridge Handicap Chase .
5 We got on very well and from there came the start of MainMan .
6 ‘ The maths may seem complicated , but breeding indices work very well and are very easy to use in practice .
7 This is an area where a diesel car scores very well and as it uses less fuel than a petrol car , it emits less noxious gas .
8 Outcomes III and IV are obviously mirror images : one player does very well and the other does very badly .
9 Friendship is more important than mountaineering , and so for their sakes I told them they 'd done very well and we turned back to the prospect of a more leisurely Sunday afternoon , with colour supplements , cats , coffee and carpets to lie on .
10 One view has it that they are the trusted preservers of law and order , men and women who do a difficult job very well and who deserve to be respected and admired throughout the communities which they protect .
11 You washed your dinner down very well and , after , you almost drowned yourself in port .
12 Michael , of course , had to make periodic visits to the Christie hospital , but he kept very well and in excellent spirits .
13 After watching Red class tell the story of wool and incorporate it into the morning school assembly , she commented ‘ they did very well and were absolutely delightful . ’
14 The producer should know the score , not in the same way as a conductor , but perhaps in the manner of a good driver who does not know what goes on underneath the bonnet but who can handle a car very well and one who knows exactly what to do if the car breaks down .
15 This seems to me to suit Prokofiev 's idiom very well and Béroff 's intelligent virtuosity is a constant source of delight , as is Masur 's accompaniment , fully committed but also notable for careful attention to detail .
16 When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK .
17 We were treated very well and given fruit and drinks — despite it being the holy fasting month of Ramadan .
18 We 've had several ex-racehorses who have suited us very well and we 've even had a Gelderland carriage horse .
19 I did n't know him very well and I despised him for being well behaved and creeping around telling stories about me .
20 So he 'd say , ‘ I 'd like you to imagine going into a recording studio , you 've never met the band in your life , you 're going to do a session for them and you 're going to be paid very well and they 're all on Acid and they 're playing rockabilly .
21 ‘ I knew John Schlesinger very well and he told me Dustin could play almost anything . ’
22 Pilots and controllers in the Channel Islands understand one another 's problems very well and in a way which is perhaps without parallel in British civil aviation .
23 We felt that the tournament suited the premium image of The Famous Grouse very well and it consolidated the link with rugby that had already been established .
24 The experience against those rivals will be provided by former England captain and club captain John Orwin who said : ‘ We know each other very well and frankly we would have preferred to come out of the hat first .
25 Whereas the first one was innovation , this one actually works very well and we 're working on lots of interesting software for it . ’
26 We get on very well and take turns to cook , share the housework and the shopping .
27 We got on very well and he has an excellent sense of humour . ’
28 I now find that the perms do n't take very well and I have to have it repermed and even then there is some part where it does not take .
29 The pluses are that Mr Fry 's antiques-packed rooms give off a suitably mouldering , claustrophobic air , Staunton is very good as an over-protective mother who keeps haring off to ring the babysitter , all concerned do seem to know each other very well and it 's all very pleasant , untaxing and time passes jauntily enough .
30 ‘ Lori played very well and really deserved to win .
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