Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A generous Dalglish said : ‘ Watford played better than the score suggests , but obviously we are pleased to see a few goals go in . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps this was because Richard paid better than all rival employers , but over so long an association other bonds must have developed . |
| 3 | Denying that people learned in precisely the same way as pigeons , Cartier insisted that the reason why a programme taught better than typical traditional methods was usually because of the latter 's inadequately prepared design : |
| 4 | The woman that she 'd seen last night at the top of the stairs was nowhere around , and Lucy knew better than to ask . |
| 5 | The President knew well that Diem 's rule was both repressive and corrupt , but the idea of an alternative government made up of members of the opposition National Liberation Front ( NLF ) and including some Communists was rejected by the Americans . |
| 6 | But the president knew better than to let him go ; Mr Shultz stayed the course . |
| 7 | MIDLANDS : Labour did well but not well enough . |
| 8 | The CPCz did better than expected , becoming the second largest force in the Federal Assembly and in the Czech National Council . |
| 9 | The aircraft performed well and , in the main , its life was uneventful , although not so on one trip however . |
| 10 | Candidates endorsed by the republic 's nationalist Popular Front-style organization Adradzhenne did better than expected , despite alleged official harassment during the campaign , but compared with the other two Slav republics there were no spectacular upsets . |
| 11 | And Ann said well if you going to fucking be like that do n't bother to buy my kids anything . |
| 12 | The Scots competed well but in attack , had to rely mainly on some good running by centres Cameron Murray and Craig Joiner . |
| 13 | Gradually his playing became better than his singing . |
| 14 | Bangor 's forward power was evident but Banbridge defended well and their defence was not breached again until the 37th minute when McKinty again made the initial surge for Dawson to cross for his second try of the game . |
| 15 | But Swansea defended well when they had to and got the game 's one and only break . |
| 16 | I had already performed a literature search on t-butyl OOH , and we have done some experiments with it on our parasite systems … some of our experiments on the parasites worked well and will appear in The Lancet . ’ |
| 17 | Annadale started well as Jim Campbell took the 1500 metres in 3.47.37 , just ahead of club mate Dermot Donnelly who won the B event in 3.47.43 . |
| 18 | He looked up again , pointed to the rajathuk which Tallis knew better than all , because of her own obsession with the wood … |
| 19 | The men of Ring 's Amusements still worked in Sir Walter Raleigh Park , but the Dynmouth Hards knew better than to engage these men in any form of combat . |
| 20 | But the people of England knew better and continued to read and delight in their chapbooks . |
| 21 | From that day on , nothing about the mill went well -unless Neva had a hand in it . |
| 22 | Alida knew better than to follow up that particular avenue of thought . |
| 23 | Eva knew better than to interrupt one of Adolf 's laboured jokes . |
| 24 | I tried just about every diesel and the Peugeots performed better than other manufacturers ' diesels I tried . ’ |
| 25 | Air and ground crews did well and it is quite clear that the OCU effort was in no way inferior to that of the operational Canberra PR squadrons . ’ |
| 26 | Even in this strict condition , signers performed better than would be expected for two unrelated spoken languages . |
| 27 | There was nothing Charles Wheeler liked better than issuing orders . |
| 28 | Herman refers to 14 such studies , but notes that the results are inconsistent , with nine of them finding that owner-controlled companies performed better than those subject to management control . |
| 29 | The flower of Scotland had well and truly wilted . |
| 30 | She went to do a lady 's hair and then the lady said well if you , could you just sort of trim my husband 's . |