Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] well [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They have a record going well back into the Cambrian , when it might be supposed that the chordates were undergoing a major diversification . |
| 3 | The rectangular site extended well back from the street . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By ensuring the transmission of local versions of organizational ‘ common sense ’ ( that ‘ you 've got to include the minions , ’ as one wag had it ) these firms help to push the essential decision criteria and the wherewithal for decision making well down into the organization . |
| 6 | To our left a high cliff cut off the view , and to the right a lowish headland jutted well out into the sea . |
| 7 | Using full ( 48 degrees ) flap it glides like an auto-rotating helicopter with the cowling pointed well down towards the near shore . |
| 8 | Remember that most shoals of sizeable bream , say fish of more than 3lb , patrol beats well out from the banks . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sunset Cottage stood well back from the lane , on rising ground . |
| 11 | Newman slowed down , stopped outside a cottage set well back from the road so Paula could read the name . |
| 12 | The Conservative Party was the only other major political party to do well out of the inter-war years . |
| 13 | The orchard lay well back from the riverside , and the wealth of old and well-grown trees between isolated it from the house . |