Example sentences of "[verb] well [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Wakeham , who had come with the necessary cheque , had muttered something about boys being boys , and that Robertson would do well to go to his hotel and sleep it off . |
| 2 | And I think governments would do well to talk to the people at the sharp end , like magistrates , who use this system , work the system , liaise with all the various components in the system and do know what they 're talking about . |
| 3 | Unless a man can put some thematic invention into vers libre , he would perhaps do well to stick to ‘ regular ’ metres , which have certain chances of being musical from their form , and certain other chances of being musical through his failure in fitting the form . |
| 4 | Sir Bryan had done well to play to his handicap , but he could not resist telling everyone what he would have done if he 'd had his James Braid putter . |
| 5 | To the extant that Professor Preston is warning us of the dangers of oversimplification and bad herme-neutics then we do well to listen to him . |