Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] well [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was much bigger than me and very fast , so I think I did well to get a 14–9 points verdict over the three rounds . |
| 2 | I make sure I drink well to counteract the dehydration , do light stretching and have a hew hot baths ’ |
| 3 | It may be quicker for someone who hears well to reply , particularly when they know the answer and the question is unimportant , but this must be avoided at all cost . |
| 4 | Do you react well to stress , remaining fairly calm and not succumbing to anxiety or tenseness ? |
| 5 | If the job is very important it may be worth the cost of sending some one whose work you know well to cover the assignment . |
| 6 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 7 | You did well to spot it . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , you do well to look wary , Donal . |
| 9 | So we done well to keep them out . |
| 10 | Do we do well to interpret our politics that way ? |
| 11 | ‘ We did well to battle our way back after twice being a goal behind , ’ said Crosby , relieved to end a dismal run of six consecutive away league defeats . |
| 12 | I think we did well to wait until now do you ? |
| 13 | I think we did well to buy bread |
| 14 | They 've had some good results themselves recently ( thanks to Chappie ) , and we did well to avoid dropping points . |
| 15 | We do well to remember that societal opposition to cruelty to animals , especially opposition that has the force of law , is a comparatively recent development . |
| 16 | We do well to remember that , after all the violence that humans had created on the earth , God surveyed the debris and said ‘ he was sorry he made man ’ ( Gen.6:7 ) . |
| 17 | His powerful shooting , sometimes from long range , was spectacular and effective and we do well to remember that Albert played in the days when the leather ball grew heavier and heavier , soaking up any moisture there may have been in or on the pitch and possibly finishing up weighing several pounds . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , we do well to remember that if education is thought of in terms of enabling pupils to take responsibility for their own ongoing self-education through life , the more limited experience that the teacher may have can nevertheless be deployed in a professionally helpful way . |
| 19 | We do well to remember that many can live incredibly full lives and develop a very extensive range of sympathy and understanding , who live only within a geographically and culturally restricted circle . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All that is going on now and we do well to remind ourselves of it . |
| 22 | A fourth and perhaps the largest reason for attending to causation is that we do well to avoid the general conceptual uncertainty that must be part of an inquiry which leaves undefined any of its fundamental ideas which are open to definition . |
| 23 | The significance of the battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings in 1066 hardly needs emphasis ; though we do well to recall that it was not so much William 's victory , as the fact that the two battles had removed his two most serious rivals for the throne , which made the year so decisive in English and Norman history . |
| 24 | From the point of view of politics , the meaning is that in exceptional times , one does well to join with the lowly , for this affords the possibility of renewal . |
| 25 | and so they say well to take it , to take the board back you do this , you 've got to remove that bloody dash |
| 26 | Thorpe B are already relegated , but they played well to hold Jaywick A to a draw , Tony Bull taking a maximum three , and Robin Rush chipping in with a good win over Doug Green . |
| 27 | They respond well to low spatial frequencies . |
| 28 | The expansion of American medical research , much of the finest quality , attracted European doctors who aspired to a scientific career , and they did well to spend a year or two in an American laboratory , or even to emigrate there altogether . |
| 29 | they did well to beat Notts County did n't they ? |
| 30 | He played well to finish joint third in the Dubai Open , where he played all four rounds under par , but missed the cut in the Johnnie Walker Classic in Singapore . |