Example sentences of "[pron] do well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we all went swimming on Tuesday nights at Hamilton baths , and I did better than some because my father had taught me to swim on holiday . |
| 2 | A negative beta implies a company which does well when the rest of the market is doing badly . |
| 3 | I mean do you do better if you put in on a large stake as opposed to a small stake ? |
| 4 | If you think they were , they were two who did better than England . |
| 5 | Anyway , th thank you very much , and , and , I hope you do well when you go into hospital on Monday . |
| 6 | Unit-trust managers are paid for the share-picking and dealing skills that enable them to do better than elderly aunts ( how much better is a question : supposedly index-tracking funds scored only from 88.4% to 93.2% over the period ) . |
| 7 | Unless we do better than IT Year did in conveying what information technology is , who knows what uses the man on the Clapham omnibus will find for new technology . |
| 8 | But the build-up will ensure that they do well when the fighting starts . |
| 9 | They do better than boys , however , on open-ended ‘ essay ’ type questions . |
| 10 | No wonder he did better than me . |
| 11 | Johnny Blunt could say ‘ Yes ; no ; door ; window ’ , but he did better than Harold Waterman ( Hans Wasserman ) who knew a complete sentence : ‘ The gardener 's in the garden . ’ |