Example sentences of "[vb past] well [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men wore rubber ponchos and had exchanged their black berets for jungle hats pulled well down against the rain so that he was unable to discern whether Miguelito was amongst their number . |
| 2 | At Monaco , a race which Hunt does not greatly admire — since the race is meaningless if one is not well up on the grid at the start and passing is well-nigh impossible — he qualified well back on the grid , spun in frustration and then had his engine blow on him . |
| 3 | The sound seemed to come from a heap of stones that lay well back among the trees . |
| 4 | The orchard lay well back from the riverside , and the wealth of old and well-grown trees between isolated it from the house . |
| 5 | These are also designed with an eye to reassuring those who did well out of the switch from rates to poll tax . |
| 6 | The broken fringes of grass were lifted off and stacked well out of the way , the spades began to clear the ground downwards from the arc of russet brickwork , warily because of sinister little trickles of loose earth that drifted down the slope at every movement . |
| 7 | The rectangular site extended well back from the street . |
| 8 | To our left a high cliff cut off the view , and to the right a lowish headland jutted well out into the sea . |
| 9 | Sunset Cottage stood well back from the lane , on rising ground . |
| 10 | It was a small shed , rather like a Dutch oven in shape , set well up into the prow to remove it as far as possible from the passengers ' cabins . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Newman slowed down , stopped outside a cottage set well back from the road so Paula could read the name . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He shuffled , he stamped , he stayed well back in the shelter of the narrow brick passageway that he 'd found as a better lookout point . |