Example sentences of "well and [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tournament has been well and truly annexed by the British for the past four years , and the form book still favours a non-American winner this time . |
| 2 | The range of objectives to be met , and potential opponents , are narrower and this time the ground has already been well and truly broken by a predecessor . |
| 3 | She would be well and truly mystified by the sight of an elderly king who needs to be helped into his chair one minute , but can swing his cane around like a golf stick the next , and even more flummoxed by the depiction of a world in which the porter has closed circuit television , but the method of killing has n't changed a jot . |
| 4 | For the first time Stirling are well and truly embroiled in the relegation area and unless they can start scoring points they are going to continue to struggle . |
| 5 | She had allowed her emotions to run wild over common sense and , now that she was well and truly embroiled in an impossible situation , found that her every reaction was triggered by her heart rather than her head . |
| 6 | Your body fuel makes your engine tick over , and it 's good to know that the majority of the time it is being well and truly fed in the best possible way ! |
| 7 | Finally , government and unions entered into a Faustian agreement known as the ‘ social contract ’ ( 1974 ) , in which the government proved to be well and truly cast in the principal role . |
| 8 | Tredworth in green and black hoops were well and truly beaten on the field , but it is what went on off the field , that this cup game will be remembered for . |
| 9 | Here the men get well and truly separated from the cowboys . |
| 10 | Bolton , still smarting from a controversial refereeing decision that denied them a penalty and , they believe , victory at the County Ground at Swindon , had their opponents well and truly cornered at the start . |
| 11 | All pest control technicians are now well and truly plugged into the system , as all now operate the hand held PSIONS . |
| 12 | Central South helped rescue the leading car of Francis Tuthill and Anthony Showell who were well and truly stuck in a water hole and had to be towed out . |
| 13 | They were well and truly entrenched in the old animosity now , Merrill thought . |
| 14 | An understanding of this should have been well and truly introduced into the minds of children by the time they are old enough to play such games as those which simulate parental behaviour . |
| 15 | The argument that converted barns provide housing for rural communities is well and truly scotched by the average price of conversions — well beyond the means of local people . |
| 16 | After that exploit , the ‘ penguin ’ equipment officer was well and truly grounded by a posting in 1940 to No 929 , a balloon barrage squadron which was then protecting shipping in the Firth of Forth . |